For Women’s History Month, I asked the team at Lord Cultural Resources—itself a global woman-led company—to give a shoutout to some of the inspiring and amazing women they work with.
Below is a opening post to a Women's History Month tribute for Ada Monzón, the Founder of EcoExploratorio, Puerto Rico’s environmental science centre, Janera Solomon, Executive Director of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, and Caro Howell, the director of London’s Foundling Museum.

She was awarded the Holger International Memorial Prize (considered the Nobel Prize for historians) for pioneering social and cultural history by revealing great meaning and deeper historical trends in the lives of marginalized people—women, slaves, and working people.

“Recently named by Puerto Rico Art News as one of the most influential international curators specializing in Puerto Rican art, Elizabeth has long been a force advocating for women artists and artists of color.”

Patricia Bovey is a tireless advocate for the importance of museums, galleries, archives, and culture for the well-being of society.

“Elena is an important champion for using digital analytics for strategic decision-making in museums,” Sarah says. “She has outstanding international experience, working with some of the most prestigious museums in the world, including the Tate, the Museo Thyssen, and now The Met.”

Baroness Young of Hornsey sits as an independent in the British House of Lords, where she promotes arts, culture and social justice.

Gail Asper is a tireless campaigner to build and sustain the Canadian Museum for Human Rights—the world’s first national museum for human rights and Canada’s one of only two national museums outside the capital region.

“Since 1996, she has been part of a joint effort between Germany and Syria to excavate the city of Aleppo in Syria..”

“Vickery led Toronto’s Public Library system from good to great. Appointed “City Librarian” in 2014, she has grown the library to more than 100 branches.”

Nathalie has deeply inspired me in her groundbreaking approach to the Museum’s place in community health and individual wellbeing.

“A practitioner, academic and dedicated teacher, she has influenced a generation of museum studies students and shaped the current state of museums through them.”

“Nina is a force of nature!” writes Lord’s COO, Kathleen Brown. “She has singlehandedly made participatory design a widespread idea in the museum sector, especially in her home state of California.”

Ayala Museum is turned into a ‘warehouse’ of a rich Southeast Asian merchant of olden times—‘We are all maps of our ancestors’. Imagined as the “warehouse of a wealthy Chinese merchant somewhere in Southeast Asia in the early decades of the 1900s,” the setting is “a metaphor for an undiscovered place that contains the untold wealth of our past.”

Iconic building has had extensive refurbishment, ready for next phase as contemporary art gallery. Contemporary Calgary is set to reveal some early design plans for turning the old planetarium building into a contemporary art gallery, while inviting public input at an open house Thursday.

SANTA FE, N.M. — It was good timing for a Rosie the Riveter sculpture at the New Mexico History Museum.
The big monument – six feet tall excluding its platform and made from more than 2,600 3-D printed parts – was installed at the start of March, Women’s History Month.

“The museum is very accessible, and we expect in its new location it will attract a lot more visitors,” said Mr. Fausel, who has a Welsh springer spaniel named Gemma. “Some museums may seem too highbrow, but with the Museum of the Dog, you can just pack up the family and go.”

The Louvre Abu Dhabi, Washington’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights—it’s an impressive list. In addition to being humanist in perspective, these cultural institutions have in common that my Canadian cultural planning firm helped to develop each of them.
—  Gail Lord, President and Co-founder Lord Cultural Resources

Elevated parks are all the rage. Spearheaded by James Corner’s work on New York’s High Line, cities across the globe are currently investing heavily in elevated urban parks that offer top-down views of familiar terrain. While some follow the High Line’s blueprint of repurposing abandoned rail lines, many more are simply planting trees and pathways wherever they can. Walk with us through the latest urban landscaping improving city life across the globe.

Visitors to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) next week can journey through the struggle for women’s rights and inspiring contributions by women in Canada and around the world.

A celebrated exhibition revealing the extensive presence of the Black model in art from 19th century France to modern day opened today at the Musée d’Orsay with an unexpected and exciting update: works featuring anonymous Black models have been renamed to honor their sitters.

Saving the planet. It’s not just the subject of passionate political debate. It’s at the heart of a growing number of museum exhibitions this year, including the works of old masters and exhibits built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and a desire to respond to environmental challenges.

In the 1980s, the Vatican famously began an extensive restoration of the Sistine Chapel, clearing away centuries of dirt and grime from Michelangelo’s famed frescos. When that project ended in 1994, a new one began: the careful monitoring and so-called “preventative conservation” of the works, which are now seen by close to seven million visitors each year. The name of the game? Constant vigilance.

No one knows how many masterpieces of Western art Qatar has bought. It is reported to have splashed out billions of dollars on works by blue-chip artists: Picasso, Rothko, Matisse, and Cezanné, plus contemporary must-have names. But if you think that the new Jean Nouvel-designed National Museum of Qatar was built to house them, think again. The kingdom’s trophy art remains under wrap. There isn’t a Rothko in sight.

BERLIN—Step into the main hall of the Natural History Museum here and you'll be greeted by a towering dinosaur skeleton, the tallest ever mounted. Nearly four stories high and twice as long as a school bus, the sauropod Giraffatitan brancai was the largest dinosaur known for more than a half-century. It has been a crowd magnet since it was first displayed in 1937.

This past month, The New York Times released its annual Museum Supplement. Featuring over two dozen articles on events and trends, it is the largest journalistic release in the museum field each year. Here are our top picks:

• An Old Master of Painting Was a Master of Marketing
• Taking a Spin Through American Car Culture
• Van Goch’s Perennial Appeal
• The Missouri Museum that Churchill Built
• Raising the Cultural Bar on Campuses
• Meeting Old Masters, Rowing with Vikings- in Augmented Reality

The museum has undergone other changes in its 135-year history, but this latest evolution may be its most dramatic. It began in 2012, when Charles L. Venable, previously director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., was hired. At that time, “the business model at our museum was not sustainable,’’ he said. “We were overspending our endowment for activities that could not generate money.”

Stockholm Museum of Women’s History is a new and innovative museum which focuses on women's presence in history. Rather than being in a fixed location, it is a mobile entity, a moving consciousness.

Fueled by philanthropic zeal, lucrative tax deductions and the prestige of seeing their works in esteemed settings, wealthy art owners have for decades given museums everything from their Rembrandts to their bedroom slippers.
It all had to go somewhere. So now, many American museums are bulging with stuff — so much stuff that some house thousands of objects that have never been displayed but are preserved, at considerable cost, in climate-controlled storage spaces.

This spring is shaping up to be a busy season one on the art calendar, with both the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale opening within weeks of each other in May, and notable exhibitions taking place all over in the coming months, from a trailblazing survey of art after the Stonewall Rebellion to retrospectives for Lino Bo Bardi, Huma Bhabha, Luchita Hurtado, and El Anatsui, to biennials in Havana and Honolulu. And this is not even including gallery shows and—one hesitates to even say it—art fairs. Below, a look at the winter’s most promising museum shows and biennials.

On the second concourse of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, you can view Panel No. 1 of Jacob Lawrence’s 60-painting “Migration Series.” Installed as part of the exhibit “Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom,” the painting addresses the northern migration of millions of African Americans after World War I — showing throngs of abstracted figures largely rendered in green and black filing through a train station, bound for Chicago, New York and St. Louis.

The Sarawak Museum Campus (Malaysia) is set to open in 2020, as per Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah. This project, the second-largest museum in South-East Asia, will be focused on heritage and environment.

Safdie Architects' soon-to-open Jewel Changi Airport contains the world's tallest indoor waterfall, but it's not the first building to incorporate an oversized water feature. Here are eight buildings that include waterfalls.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has dubbed the 85.4-meter Mjøstårnet, in Brumunddal, Norway, as the world's tallest timber building.

For nearly a decade, New Yorkers have watched (at times with feigned enthusiasm) as glass and steel seemed to be in a slow-motion race toward the sky in Manhattan's midtown west. The end result has come to be known as Hudson Yards, the largest mixed-use private real-estate project in American history: a meganeighborhood that includes four skyscrapers designed by some of the world's most high-profile architects; a seven-story, 720,000-square-foot shopping mall; an eye-catching (if not head-scratching) cultural center dubbed the Shed; and a curious-looking structure anchoring the entire project.

The digital art museum L’Atelier des Lumières brings Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings to life, projecting them on the walls, ceilings and floors of a former foundry, accompanied by music and immersing visitors in the chromatic splendor of the artist's pictorial world.

In September, a fire engulfed the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. Estimates on how much of the collection was lost are as high as 90 per cent.
In the face of such a tragedy, it’s hard not to wonder what the costs associated with the conservation of physical artifacts are and whether alternative methods for preservation exist.

The experience phenomenon first began to take hold in the marketing world around five years ago, as brick-and-mortar stores sought to find a way to attract young people who otherwise might do their shopping online. That desire to create something that can be felt, rather than purchased or passively observed, has since bubbled over into museums.

The Art Newspaper's exclusive annual survey ranks the world's most visited shows in 2018, looks at the rise of Instagram-friendly exhibitions, and reveals the secrets of getting into a blockbuster.

A range of exhibits this March highlight both the work of female artists and of items and documents that track the progress of women’s rights. From Los Angeles to Boston, Chicago and New York, here are some of the female art exhibitions which tie into women’s history, many of which look to the past to reflect upon the present.

Who were the Neanderthals? Even for archaeologists working at the trowel’s edge of contemporary science, it can be hard to see Neanderthals as anything more than intriguing abstractions, mixed up with the likes of mammoths, woolly rhinos and sabre-toothed cats. But they were certainly here: squinting against sunrises, sucking lungfuls of air, leaving footprints behind in the mud, sand and snow. Crouching to dig in a cave or rock-shelter, I’ve often wondered what it would be like to watch history rewind, and see the empty spaces leap with shifting, living shadows: to collapse time, reach out, and allow my skin to graze the warmth of a Neanderthal body, squatting right there beside me.

The arts and cultural sector contributed over $763.6 billion to the American economy in 2015—more than the agriculture, transportation, or warehousing sectors, according to new U.S. government data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

“Marshall’s paintings of artists are not portraits so much as idealizations of the trope of the artist in the studio. They depict majestic figures, many of them women, who stare confidently at the viewer. In these works specifically, Marshall makes black artists commandingly visible, a group that is doubly underrecognized in the case of black women.” — Curator Karsten Lund

A short film profiling the founder of the Women of the World Festival and former director of Britain's largest cultural institution offers her advice to young women struggling to find their own voices.

The UK’s capital is closely followed by Paris and Rome in this year’s Travellers’ Choice awards. London might not be burning right now, but it is definitely hot. At least according to the users of the world’s largest online travel site — TripAdvisor.

The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) has confirmed that it will be joining leading participants in the Riyadh Travel Fair, taking place on March 28-29, 2019, to highlight tourism, cultural and leisure attractions in Sharjah and promote the emirate as one of the most significant local and international tourism destinations.