“Eve Moros Ortega is a director in the US office at Lord Cultural Resources. This organization helped Rockford maneuver through the plan. She said traditional arts like ballet and symphony are important.

‘And at the same time, art and culture is so much more than that,’ she said. ‘When you see those young people who are learning to express themselves, learning, creativity, agency, all that comes, it makes me, it does make me emotional.’”

Lord Cultural Resources was engaged by the Rockford Area Arts Council to develop the Rockford Region Cultural Plan to support a thriving arts and culture sector that will benefit all who live and work in the region.

“HueArts, a project initiated by Museum Hue, The Laundromat Project, and Hester Street, identified 400 ‘entities created by and grounded in the experience and aesthetics of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and all People of Color’ in New York City and surveyed many of them. The findings demonstrate their outsized role in communities across the city."

Lord Cultural Resources partnered with the Laundromat Project (The LP) to facilitate a strategic planning process. A collaborative approach resulted in a strategic plan that reflects the collective vision and goals of The LP.

“Featuring major and emerging talents in digital art from Canada and abroad, Wake Windows: The Witching Hour examines the invisible labour of mothers. The exhibition gives space to the little-talked-about, the overlooked and the unrecorded when it comes to the experience of rearing children.”

Lord Cultural Resources completed a multi-component planning and programming feasibility study for the renovation and expansion of MacKenzie Art Gallery’s existing facility, which included a high-level site and facility assessment, contextual and comparables analysis, a detailed facility program, a high-level concept design, an order of magnitude capital costing, and finally attendance, operating revenue, and expense projections.

“To kick off our Olympic Impact series, Dezeen profiles the most architecturally notable venues of the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games – where the major theme has been renovation and reuse.”

“On Bastille Day, just shy of two weeks from the July 26 opening ceremonies, the Olympic Torch Relay made its way through the French capital. Weaving through famous monuments like the Eiffel Tower, Moulin Rouge, and Arc de Triomphe, the Olympic torch also stopped at the Louvre, where it was carried by French artist JR.”

“The future is finally here—the French government has permitted electric air taxis that are set to be used in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, potentially revolutionizing urban transportation.”

“Opened in 1986 and located on the Left Bank of the River Seine opposite the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay today is home to some 100,000 works dating from 1848 to 1914.”

“The museum hopes to inspire a new generation of art historians to study the work of the Spanish Old Master.”

“The decision to end the sponsorship deal with the Norwegian state-owned energy company is due to its failure to lower carbon emissions enough to ensure it was aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement goal to prevent global temperatures rising by more than 1.5°C, the Observer reports.”

“If you think your museum has nothing to do with civics, you may need to expand your definition of the term. Here's why every museum can, and should be, ‘in the democracy business.’”

“The English Civic Museums Network (ECMN) has published a new report: The Future of Civic Museums: A Think Piece. The think piece, authored by Peter Latchford of Black Radley Ltd, was commissioned to examine the particular qualities, value and importance of civic museums, identify the current challenges they face and explore what they should do to thrive and become more relevant and resilient in the future.”

“You probably have a mission statement, and maybe even a vision and a values statement, but have you ever considered writing a purpose statement? Here's why you might want to consider it.”

“The Diné symbol was suppressed for decades by a settler-dominated art market that conflated it with the Nazi insignia.”

“A chief’s seat that has been in the Royal B.C. Museum’s possession for more than a century is being handed back to the ­Heiltsuk Nation near Bella Bella.”

“In a press release issued on July 8, the Spanish Ministry stated that decolonization involves ‘modernizing and enriching knowledge of the collections,’ in accordance with international commitments and the new guidelines of the International Committee of Museums (ICOM) on ‘cultural diversity and community participation in the renewal of museographic discourses.’

“’The university is ultimately a colonial institution that is designed to serve white people…and that needs to change,’ said C.W. Brooks-Ip, registrar and preparator of the University of Manitoba Art Collection.”

“On June 3rd, Felch formally launched the Museum of Looted Antiquities (MOLA), a digital gallery of 100 cases from varied collections his research team confirms were returned to their countries of origin. These include the 2017 sarcophagus acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, returned after being recognized in a Met Gala photo with Kim Kardashian.”

“In its second iteration, the Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) connects art-making with ever-shifting movements in the region’s flawed formation.”

“A founding member of the punk feminist art collective, who is on Russia's most-wanted list, the artist and activist talks about her first museum solo show.”

“Visual artist Christi Belcourt says the final days of June, 2024 were "surreal" after she was invested into the Order of Canada, became the first Métis artist to have her work displayed at Rideau Hall – the official residence of the Governor General of Canada – and was honoured by Canada Post with a postage stamp bearing her image.”

“As part of our ongoing series on data-driven insights into arts vibrancy, we are highlighting the top arts-vibrant rural counties across the country. These counties all score within the top 5 percent nationally, according to our Arts Vibrancy Index, and are classified as rural according to the U.S. Census Bureau.”

“What might Leonardo da Vinci’s beloved Lady With an Ermine (ca. 1489–91) smell like? Old paint and varnish? A musty museum storage room? According to a team of Polish and Slovenian scientists, it’s somewhere in between.”