Lord Cultural Resources is thrilled to have had the honor of working on the Abrahamic Family House project, a multi-faith campus opening on March 1 in Abu Dhabi. The campus features a mosque, church, and synagogue, all in one location designed to promote interfaith respect and understanding. We are proud to have contributed our expertise to this exceptional project. We extend our heartfelt thanks to Marcy Grossman, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates for her continuing support of this project and for mentioning our role in her inspiring  message. Please read her full article about the intent and impact of the Abrahamic Family House in the publication of the Atlantic Council of which she is a Senior Fellow

Town of Lincoln Ontario has initiated public art in a park dedicated to truth and reconciliation. Lord Cultural Resources thought leader Tim Johnson is the advisor and explains the project in the audio below.

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With a gift from the trustee Ira Brind, the center will aim to advance the museum’s new Equity Agenda.

The National Gallery of Canada spent more than $2 million on severance payments over a period of two and a half years, not including payments to four senior staff members let go in the fall, as it parted ways with employees during a push to reorient itself around a new inclusion-focused mission.

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) is set to highlight sustainability and community engagement as two of its leading topics during this year’s Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo program. The comprehensive schedule of talks and discussions will cover a breadth of industry topics when it takes place in Denver from 19-22 May 2023.

Eve Moros Ortega, Director at Lord Cultural Resources, will present a session on the importance of cultural planning for museums, and of museums in cultural planning – demonstrating how planning across institutions deepens impact for all museums in an eco-system.

The new initiative represents the second phase of a multi-year funding collaboration seeking to nurture and prioritize US Latinx art. The funding partners have committed a combined $5 million, which will provide ten grants of $500,000 to institutions in support of the creation and formalization of ten permanent early and mid-career curatorial positions with expertise in Latinx art.

Lord Cultural Resources has been engaged to conduct a business plan and facilities review for El Museo del Barrio.

Lord Cultural Resources, a museum consultant for the Saban Center, launched an online community survey for the science and discovery center that will be known as IGNITE. The future evolution of the Children’s Hands on Museum or CHOM will become IGNITE. It will focus on fun and educational STEAM. That’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math learning. The purpose of the survey is to understand the Tuscaloosa community’s goals and desires for IGNITE so kids will come and enjoy it.

The First Americans Museum (FAM) aims to educate the public on the cultures and histories of the 39 Native American tribes that exist in Oklahoma today. It is located in the state's capital, Oklahoma City.

Who tells a tale adds a tail: Latin America and contemporary art explores contemporary Latin American art without conforming to external expectations.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is highlighting entrepreneurs from the Black community for Black History Month.

As the last beat of the drum song faded out, Donald Keeble, or Thigwé in his Neshnabe name, opened the doors and welcomed people to the newly renovated museum for the Forest County Potawatomi Community.

Facing City Hall in Downtown Manhattan, a new exhibition by the Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) collective is loudly protesting the neighborhood’s gentrification. Featuring historical material from the nearly 40-year-old Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAV), the expansive Degentrification Archives show, up through March 25, documents the decades-long fight against displacement and celebrates the work of activists today.

A group of Native artists and others held a protest outside the stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles competed for the championship.

One man was arrested as LGBTQ rights supporters met right-wing protesters outside the London museum.

“Dignity of Earth and Sky,” unveiled in 2016, raises questions about who should depict Native people and how they should be portrayed.

Passamaquoddy citizen Chris Newell is imparting his knowledge of the Wabanaki Confederacy to advise on the Portland Museum of Art’s expansion.

Following the Nuxalk Nation’s initial request for repatriation in 2019, the Royal British Columbia Museum finally repatriated the long-lost Snow family totem pole to Nuxalk territory last week. A fleet of 100 Nuxalkmc (Nuxalk people) escorted the truck carrying the totem pole throughout its approximately 600-mile journey back to Bella Coola, British Columbia.

The whole of Athens, one might suggest, is an archaeological museum. Nevertheless, news that the city’s 19th-century Archaeological Museum is going to be extended and restored by David Chipperfield Architects (DCA) is being received in Greece as a major cultural event.

Dramatic extension to the 140-year-old building is inspired by the “Manhattanhenge” illusion.

Marcela Guerrero, the organizer of an acclaimed survey of Puerto Rican art since Hurricane Maria, has been promoted to curator at the Whitney Museum in New York. Alongside her new appointment came news that Jennie Goldstein, an assistant curator at the museum, will be associate curator of the collection.

Popular galleries dedicated to Pre-Raphaelite artists and JMW Turner will also be rehung with new rooms dedicated to John Constable and William Blake

The Science Museum in London signed a sponsorship contract containing a gagging clause with the Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor, agreeing to take care not to say anything that could damage the firm’s reputation, it can be revealed.

Western museums are major tourist attractions, drawing travelers from around the world. But what responsibility do we bear as spectators for patronizing institutions that display what critics say are stolen works?

Buxton Museum returned entire collection of Native American and First Nation artefacts to their original communities.

Once again, an art museum has come under fire for plans to sell art from its collection. This time, the institution in question is the Brauer Museum of Art at Indiana’s Valparaiso University, and it is looking to sell a trio of artworks by Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederic Edwin Church, and Childe Hassam estimated to be worth over $20 million to fund improvements to freshman dormitories.

A longhouse post originally taken from the Gitxaala Nation around 138 years ago, near Prince Rupert, B.C., is being repatriated to the territory from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

A slew of cases of museum directors forced from their positions is a "spectacular moment of crisis,” the Museum Watch Committee chair said at annual museums conference.

In the wake of last year’s trend of climate emergency demonstrations targeting art museums internationally, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation has announced its third cycle of the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI), $10 million worth of grants to stimulate clean energy projects across cultural institutions in the United States.

As Black History Month begins in the US, arts administrator and historian Tsione Wolde-Michael gives three key points for institutions to consider.

Construction will begin this summer on the Royal BC Museum’s (RBCM) collections and research building as part of a long-term plan to protect the Province’s collections that include more than seven million artifacts and the BC Archives.

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and design competition organizers Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) are calling on all local, regional, national, and international architecture firms to participate in the reimagining of the Museum’s campus.

Read an excerpt from the new book 'Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues With Architects.'

For the first time, the Tate is touring works from its national collection directly to the UK's regional communities in a newly conceived "mobile museum".

The B.C. government announced $30 million in funds will be allocated to B.C.-based events in response to calls from the sector for more help. The one-time $30-million grant will be provided to eligible events in response to challenges the industry is facing, such as loss of staffing and volunteers, supply-chain issues, and a cautious return of audiences.

The art displayed in the rooms of Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel this year proves that Minimalism is officially dead.

Germany, France, Italy, and Spain offer cash stipends to their younger citizens in an effort to revitalize arts and culture after the COVID-19 pandemic.

New architectural renderings have been released for the major revamp of one of Kingston’s art galleries. The Agnes Etherington Art Centre on Queen’s University campus is set to receive a three-storey addition.

The number of galleries from Africa has more than halved since 2020, but sales were steady among the 12 new exhibitors.

You can almost hear the cars and merchants and smell the spices and food in Hangama Amiri’s large-scale tapestry Bazaar (2020). Rendered in a kaleidoscopic palette of jewel-tone fabrics—thick muslins, sturdy cottons, delicate chiffons, rich velvets, and shimmering satins—Amiri’s bazaar is a dense arrangement of vendor stalls, shop doors, and goods on offer in her neighborhood market in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam has announced that an adapted version of its 2021 Slavery exhibition will be making a trip to New York City for a five-week display at the United Nations (UN) headquarters.

In 2015, a delegation from the Smithsonian Institution traveled to Mozambique to inform the Makua people of a singular and long-overdue discovery. Two hundred and twenty-one years after it sank in treacherous waters off Cape Town, claiming the lives of 212 enslaved people, the wreck of the Portuguese slave ship the São José Paquete D’Africa had been found.

The historic center of the Ukrainian Black Sea port city Odesa has been added to UNESCO’s list of endangered World Heritage sites. The key strategic port city, known for its cosmopolitan history and architectural landmarks, has been the target of Russian bombing since its invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.

Commissioned nearly 15 years ago, the bulbous outdoor artwork was delayed by the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The National Arts Centre (NAC) has drawn criticism over plans for a first-ever Black Out night scheduled during Black History Month.

Artist Ebony G. Patterson is the 2023 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the field of African American art. Awarded annually by the Museum since 2005, the prize demonstrates the High’s ongoing dedication to furthering artistic innovation and promoting research of African American artists and scholars.

The City of Vancouver is beginning another effort to revitalize and transform the historic Granville strip, home to some of the city’s most recognizable and iconic theatres and buildings.

A new arts plan will boost the amount of Australian music, art and film with the government putting Indigenous culture at the policy's centre.

Canada is the latest country to announce its artist choice for the next Venice Biennale (20 April-24 November), selecting Kapwani Kiwanga who works in video, installation, sound, performance and sculpture.

Details of the Venice Biennale 2024 have already started to be announced. The 60th edition of the most prestigious and oldest-running art biennial will open on 20 April 2024 (until 24 November). To help you keep on top of the latest pavilion news, we have brought together all the participating artists and organisers announced so far.

AI chatbot software has made waves by creating convincingly human speech and text—could it transform communications in the arts?

Programme is designed to mentor museums in the ways of the decentralised third generation of the Web that is home to blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"

Twitter’s curbing of free API access could affect accounts posting from museum collections or the archives of long-gone artists.