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Imagine Greater Louisville 2020 arts plan unveiled

After nearly 18 months filled with meetings, sending out surveys and poring over data, a group of arts, philanthropic and business leaders has unveiled what they are calling Imagine Greater Louisville 2020 – a long-term plan for the role arts, culture and creativity can play in a strong future.

Remembering pioneer Barry Lord, who invented the museum planning profession

Barry Lord, who died on March 9 at the age of 77, was a true pioneer of Canada’s cultural scene – and one of its most colourful rebels.

Early on in life, Lord perceived the need for a systematic approach to this country’s arts world. As explained in the announcement of his death from Lord Cultural Resources, the company he co-founded: “Museum planning as a profession didn’t exist, so he invented it.”

Every plant tells a story

Assiniboine Park's new Diversity Gardens to be a collection of flora from around the world.

How do we celebrate diversity through biodiversity? That was the question at the heart of Canada’s Diversity Gardens, the centrepiece of Assiniboine Park’s $200-million redevelopment campaign. Consisting of three new exterior gardens, as well as an interior hub called The Leaf, the new site — which has an anticipated opening date of late 2019 — will replace the conservatory.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki: we remain optimistic about India

As we congratulate Architectural Digest India on their fifth anniversary, we in Tokyo are also marking the fifth anniversary of Maki and Associates’ professional engagement with the country. At the end of 2011, Maki and Associates was announced as the winner of an international competition for designing the Bihar Museum in central Patna. At the end of 2016, the museum was racing towards completion. At around the same time, we endured an unjustified removal as the master architects for the Amaravati Capital Complex in Andhra Pradesh—despite winning an international competition for the same in March 2016. These two experiences offer contrasting insights and lessons about the Indian architectural profession as it faces new challenges to its identity within the context of global practices.

HCM City to build Natural History Museum

Việt Nam’s first natural history museum will be built in HCM City on an area of 23.9 hectares inside the Historical and Cultural Park in District 9.

The construction will include a 20-ha botanical garden and museum which will display over 20,000 species of flora and fauna of Việt Nam. It will also have a research centre as well as facility to preserve gene resources.

Lê Dũng, general director of the Science Technology and Production Corp (PTC), which is in charge of developing the project, said: “The museum is the first large-scale complex of culture and science in Việt Nam. Through exhibitions, publications and special programmes, the museum will introduce Việt Nam’s natural history and environment to locals and foreigners.”

Structures: On Legacy, History and Influence

In light of the recent passing of writer, arts advocate and former editor of artscanadaBarry Lord, senior editor Bryne McLaughlin reflects on the intersecting paths of our publication's history, and the theme of our spring issue.

In late January, I emailed the former editor of artscanada, Barry Lord. It was a simple fact-checking query to verify his tenure at the magazine in the late 1960s, the details of which, based on our office archive of artscanada issues and an online search, remained vague, even contradictory. His reply, for the record: “I took over at Canadian Art, published by the Society for Art Publications (directed by designer Paul Arthur) in September 1966. At the same meeting where I was appointed Editor, the Society decided to change the name of Canada’s national art publication to artscanada, and adopt the mag-in-a-bag format, including the discs [more on that to come], and much else besides. The first issue I edited appeared in January 1967.”

Celebrating Women in the Arts: Batul Raaj Mehta, in the business of museum planning

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we profile a series of Indian women in the arts who are game changers in their respective fields. In the first of this series, we feature Batul Raaj Mehta, architect, and the person responsible for setting up Lord Cultural Resources in Mumbai.

‘Arts and culture’ vital for Bermuda

Arts and culture can be leveraged to move the island forward, according to Lauren Merkel (senior consultant at Lord Cultural Resources).

Revealed: Shortlisted Designs for UK Holocaust Memorial

The designs by the 10 shortlisted teams in the contest to design a £40 million national Holocaust memorial next to the Palace of Westminster have gone on public display. 

Lord Cultural Resources is excited to be involved with not one, but two shortlisted teams for the design of the UK Holocaust memorial. Congratulations to Zaha Hadid Architects and Studio Daniel Libeskind!

Viewpoint: A watery new museum for lakefront Toronto?

Museums are again in the wind in Toronto.

There has long been a need for a Museum of Toronto to locate large collections about the city’s history. That would attract mostly Torontonians.

An even better variant on that would be an “urban museum,” one that gives visitors from everywhere a sense of many actual and possible cities, from the past and into the future, a part of which would be dedicated to Toronto alone. Toronto, after all, is one of the most efficient examples of large and rapid urbanization in the world. That is our strength.