“The report, called Rx For Social Connection, is centred around learnings from The Bentway’s 2024 Softer City program of art and social events.”

“The Central Bank Museum is hosting its first exhibition for 2025, ‘From Chantuelle to Calypsonian: Celebrating 90 Years of Female Calypsonians in Trinidad’s Commercialized Calypso Tents.’”

Lord Cultural Resources helped the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago reimagine its Money Museum, creating an engaging, interactive space that showcases the evolution of currency and the Bank’s vital role in the nation’s economy.

“Starting in 2025, Elevated Chicago will receive from MacArthur $1.5 million over three years to serve as a technical advisor and regranting partner for local community initiatives. This partnership supports efforts to use arts and cultural installations, creative placemaking, and placekeeping techniques to stimulate economic activity and preserve community culture along key transit corridors throughout Chicago.”

Lord Cultural Resources provided research, strategy development and program design services to The MacArthur Foundation. The team explored how to best support arts and cultural strategies that can contribute to advancing spatial, community, and economic development in Chicago’s neighborhoods.

“The highly anticipated panel, promoted by The Human Safety Net, is an opportunity to discover her latest book, Manual of Museum Management: For Museums in Dynamic Change, and discuss the future of museums, cultural districts and the frontiers of the creative economy.”

“North Jersey Pro Soccer announced the launch of men's and women's teams that will compete in the United Soccer League, and play games in the 93-year-old New Jersey stadium.”

“For the first time, the fair is presenting galleries from across the Arab world and Europe. The GEM began welcoming a limited number of guests in November 2022 and opened its main galleries to the public in mid-October 2024. It will officially open on 3 July.”

“An exhibit called Radical Stitch is being billed as the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary and traditional beadwork art ever seen. Inside the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, N.B., Radical Stitch includes traditional beading, wearable art, and contemporary pieces.”

"Harkey brings more than two decades of experience helping nonprofit arts organizations and artists to thrive in local communities, including leadership roles at major municipal arts agencies across the country. Under her inspired stewardship, AFTA will continue its 65-year legacy of uniting the arts and culture ecosystem, empowering local arts agencies as catalysts for economic growth and community connection nationwide."

Lord Thought Leader and Associate Jamie Bennett served as Interim co-CEO during the AFTA leadership search and transition. 

“Spain’s Ministry of Culture has ordered a Madrid museum to remove a mummy from view as part of a government policy to ‘decolonise’ state-owned museums.”

“Transhistorical shows, often pairing Old Masters with contemporary art, are frequently critical successes but the commercial benefits are less obvious.”

“Research explores how UK museum professionals articulate, experience and utilise emotions.”

“Postal Museum says research featured in new exhibition shows how global postal service was ‘tool of empire.’”

“Many exhibit experts believe they still have value but need reimagining.”

“In honour of Black History Month, CBC Books senior producer Ryan B. Patrick and The Next Chapter columnist Alicia Cox Thomson spoke with the show's host Antonio Michael Downing about four Black Canadian authors to watch in 2025.”

“Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are located and honoured.”

“The Louisiana-based artist, known for his hand-beaded portraits and Mardi Gras Indian suits, is the recipient of this year’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.”

“An iconic portrait from Pablo Picasso’s blue period gained a new layer of complexity after the Courtauld Institute of Art in London discovered an earlier image of a woman beneath it that went undetected for over a century.”

“The artist’s work—dedicated to the victims of the tragic fire—will be screened in cities including Cardiff and Glasgow.”

“Whether nestled inside shopping malls, perched atop schools or integrated into urban settings, these vibrant designs spark children's imaginations and prove that play knows no bounds.”

“Last year, Maytree, a foundation committed to advancing systemic solutions to poverty, and West End Phoenix, a local periodical community newspaper for Toronto’s west end, launched un/SHELTERED: Toronto Design Challenge, a competition which sought out innovative designs for people who were homeless and unsheltered.”

“HeritageWatch.AI aims to provide real-time data, based on analysis of satellite imagery, to plan and deploy effective disaster management.”

“An open letter alleges that many of the artworks in the auction were ‘created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license.’”

“A new report published by the virtual reality platform Vortic makes clear the environmental benefits of going digital—and a hybrid approach could a way forward in the short term.”

“Per the terms of the Met’s agreement with the Greek government, the cast-bronze antiquity will return to New York next year for a special exhibition.”

“The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria per the country’s request, marking the single largest return to date of Benin antiquities looted by the British military as part of its 1897 punitive expedition.”