Each week, we are featuring a member of our team in dialogue with thought leaders from some of the 2,700 institutions we have worked with over the years. On the most recent episode we have Principal Consultant, Lisa Wright, engaging in conversation with Tim Johnson, Indigenous Advisor Museums, Heritage, Legacy.  Watch this and more videos at the link below.

The Indigenous Peoples Garden is located at the Gardens at The Leaf, opening July 9, 2021.

With profound sadness, Tafelmusik joins the music world in mourning the loss of its Music Director Emerita Jeanne Lamon, C.M. O.Ont., who passed away in Victoria, British Columbia, on Sunday June 20, 2021 at age 71.

As part of its Canadian tour, the exhibition Riopelle: The Call of Northern Landscapes and Indigenous Cultures, currently presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until September 12, 2021, will make an additional stop in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

The Beaverbrook Art Gallery will host the exhibition in the spring of 2022. This exhibition is also expected this fall at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, British Columbia, from October 23, 2021 to February 21, 2022, as well as at the Musée Glenbow in Calgary, Alberta, between August 6 and November 20, 2022.

The Connecticut Historical Society — ensconced in a historic home in Hartford’s West End since 1950 —is considering relocating downtown as it wrestles with how it can better collaborate with Connecticut’s increasingly diverse population and share history through new and different viewpoints.

The city of Abu Dhabi has announced plans to spend $6 billion in the next five years on the cultural and creative industries, adding to the $2.3 billion the government has already committed to the sector. The city is already home to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened in 2017.

The Portrait Gallery of Canada is still homeless, but that is not stopping the virtual institution from naming its first director and unveiling exhibition plans.

The gallery announced Friday that it has appointed a retired federal civil servant and communications specialist as director: Joanne Charette has worked previously as official spokesperson for David Johnston when he served as Governor General; as director of public affairs at the National Gallery of Canada from 2001 to 2010, and more recently as vice-president of strategy and communications at the International Development Research Centre.

The developers behind the huge tower that will replace the existing Grand Hyatt New York announced last week plans to open up its elevated terraces to the public for events. The Public Art Fund and Lord Cultural Resources will develop a cultural program that will bring art installations, community events, and other programs to 175 Park Avenue, the 83-story mixed-use building proposed by TF Cornerstone and RXR Realty.

Lord Cultural Resources will develop a cultural program that will bring and exciting mix of art installations, community events, experiences, and other programs to 175 Park Avenue.

Last week TF Cornerstone and RXR Realty, development partners of the Grand Hyatt New York redevelopment in Midtown East, announced a cultural program at 175 Park Avenue with New York City-based non-profit Public Art Fund and Lord Cultural Resources. This will include public art installations, community events, and programming inside and around the Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed skyscraper.

Lord Cultural Resources will develop a cultural program that will bring and exciting mix of art installations, community events, experiences, and other programs to 175 Park Avenue.

One of Montreal’s favourite museums, the Musée d’art contemporain (MAC) will be suspending activities for five months beginning June 28 to make way for extensive renovations. The museum building at Place des Arts, meanwhile, is set to close until 2025. But exhibits are moving to a new space downtown!

The long-awaited American Indian Cultural Center is now renamed the First Americans Museum and has a September 2021 opening date set.

On their social media platforms, the First Americans Museum announced a Sept. 18, 2021 grand opening date for the institute located along the Oklahoma River southeast of downtown and the Interstates 40/35/235 interchange.  

As art museums put the pandemic behind them and reopen their doors to the public, many wonder if they will offer a more inclusive environment to staff and visitors than in the past.

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is honored to announce that it received a transformative $10 million gift today from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. It is the largest single gift in the Museum’s history.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, opening in September, has redesigned its galleries amid social movements like Black Lives Matter.

When people ventured back into the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to see Reconstructions Architecture and Blackness in America, they encountered something that doesn’t often happen in museums: a relationship with space and place rooted in the Black experience.

The new building, once a Safeway grocery store, is just around the corner from the museum’s current home in Santa Fe, N.M., and is about 47,000 square feet bigger.

He helped reinvigorate the Metropolitan and made its exhibitions into crowd-pleasing spectacles, providing a model for other fine-art museums across the country.

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We spoke with Dan Hicks, Marla Berns, and Victor Ehikhamenor about why the conversation around restituting African artworks seems finally to have turned.

Twelve years after a powerful earthquake devastated L’Aquila, in central Italy, the building’s inauguration is a sign of recovery. But there is still work to do.

The future does not belong to the whims of navel gazers.

London’s British Museum has named four architects for its £45 million construction consultancy services framework: Avanti Architects, Dannatt Johnson Architects, Nex Architecture and Wright & Wright Architects.

As we emerge from the pandemic, global and national leaders are recognizing the necessity of the arts and humanities to overcome the profound challenges of our time.

Supporting a strong foundation for unrealized and underestimated business owners.

Basketball courts, skate parks and playgrounds overlook an important demographic: teenage girls. A burgeoning design movement is trying to fix that.