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March 2022
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Stan the T. rex found! World’s most expensive fossil finds home in a new museum

Mystery shrouded the dinosaur’s future after an anonymous buyer paid $31.8 million in 2020. Now Abu Dhabi confirms a new museum will house the prized skeleton. Read More

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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility
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March is Women’s History Month
Lord Cultural Resources, March 2022

Throughout March 2022, we honored important women in the cultural sector. Meet these honorees whose work in the cultural sector inspires us! And download the poster we created to wrap up this month of celebration. Thank you to women everywhere who make the world a better place through culture.

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Museum/Musées Canada Summit
Museum/Musées Canada Summit, March 2022

The inaugural Museums/Musées Canada Summit will take place in Kitchener from Sunday, April 3 – Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Gail Lord, President and Co-Founder, Lord Cultural Resources will be speaking at the summit on April 4th.

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About Gail’s talk
Halifax councillors add Art Gallery of Nova Scotia funding, plus millions more to budget
Halifax Examiner, March 23, 2022

Halifax councillors have agreed to provide $7 million in municipal funding for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as they work to finalize their 2022-2023 budget.

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Our Work with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Beaverbrook Art Gallery prepares to partially reopen after two years of renovations
CTV News, March 14, 2022

It's been more than two years since the doors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton have been open to the public.

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Our Work with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
ART BEAT: Artworks Gwinnett names Lord Cultural Resources as consultant to facilitate the development of a creative economy
Gwinnett Daily Post, March 11, 2022

After years of dreaming, planning, interviewing, and discussing how to steer the county’s future with a creativity-driven plan, Artworks Gwinnett announces that Lord Cultural Resources has been chosen as the official consultant for this exciting effort.

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The Parthenon Marbles & What Purpose Museum Serve
Kore 670: The Podcast, March 8, 2022

The Parthenon Marbles & What Purpose Do Museums Serve? A discussion with Prof. Dimitrios Pandermalis, President of the Acropolis Museum on the Parthenon Marbles; also, what should museums be and what can they offer the public, with museum consultant Gail Lord and Paul Denis, Assistant Curator, Greek and Roman Galleries at the Royal Ontario Museum.

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Kingston’s Arts & Culture Master Plan unanimously OK’d by Common Council
Daily Freeman, March 5, 2022

Kingston’s new Arts & Culture Master Plan 2022 creates a roadmap for how best the city government and community can help support the arts and culture locally.

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Our Work with the City of Kingston
2022 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo
AAM, March 2022

Save the date for May 19-22 when we will be coming together in Boston for the 2022 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. We look forward to meeting you there at Lord Cultural Resources' booth #1230. Stay tuned for more details about the conference.

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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility
Baltimore Museum Guards Take Seats at the Curators’ Table
The New York Times, March 23, 2022

A diverse and kaleidoscopic art exhibition, curated by 17 members of its security staff, spotlights the perspectives of employees typically seen but rarely heard.

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After Criticism, Film Museum Will Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History
The New York Times, March 21, 2022

The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, which tried to present an inclusive history of film, overlooked the role Jewish immigrants played in creating the industry.

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Museums
British Museum facing legal action over Parthenon marbles 3D scan refusal
The Guardian, March 29, 2022

Institute for Digital Archaeology says it intends to serve injunction against museum imminently.

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Bouncing back: the US museums that have regained the visitors lost to Covid closures
The Art Newspaper, March 28, 2022

While the pandemic has devastated the visitor numbers of many big-name museums, some medium-sized institutions are already thriving.

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Visitor Figures 2021: the 100 most popular art museums in the world—but is Covid still taking its toll?
The Art Newspaper, March 28, 2022

While attendance figures still have some way to go to reach pre-pandemic levels, fewer days of lockdown-related closures coupled with vaccine rollout programmes spelled good news for institutions around the world.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art director Max Hollein sets out his vision for the future
The Art Newspaper, March 25, 2022

In this week's episode we talk to Max Hollein, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about the new plans for the museum’s wing of Modern and contemporary art, including the appointment of the architect Frida Escobedo in place of David Chipperfield.

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In a Landmark Move, the Smithsonian Will Return Benin Bronzes in Its Collection to Nigeria
Artnet News, March 8, 2022

The move comes as the Smithsonian works to develop a new institution-wide restitution policy.

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Art & Culture
Culture in the crossfire: Ukraine's key monuments and museums at risk of destruction in the war
The Art Newspaper, March 25, 20222

Museum staff, heritage custodians and volunteers are racing against time to safeguard the country's cultural treasures, many of which, ironically, are connected to Russia.

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The art world responds to Russian invasion of Ukraine by canceling shows and cutting ties
CNN, March 17, 2022

Stage curtains are closing, art exhibitions are being halted and performers are being replaced.

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Frida Kahlo fans can 'immerse' themselves in the icon's life and art in new exhibit
NBC News, March 5, 2022

The "Immersive Frida Kahlo," showing in several U.S. cities, lets visitors "get to know all of the Fridas," not just the painter, her great-grandniece, Mara Kahlo, says.

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Technology
Museums Are Cashing In on NFTs
The New York Times, March 25, 2022

There’s money to be made, though most institutions are wary of getting involved.

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Launched by Art-World Insiders, the New NFT Platform Artwrld Is Trying to Corner the Market Where Traditional and Crypto Art Meet
Artnet News, March 15, 2022

If the mention of NFTs elicits eye rolls in the contemporary art world, it’s almost always for one particular reason: substance. Even if it’s a generalization or a stereotype, crypto-art has a reputation for lacking rigor and depth.

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