The city's new Cultural Plan, which makes a bold commitment to embrace equity and diversity in the city's arts landscape over the next seven to 10 years, got a unanimous vote of confidence from the Dallas City Council, which voted 14-0 to adopt the plan. See item 31 to see the plan unanimously approved.  “I just want to thank you Jennifer and Joy Bailey-Bryant and their group from New York, for this tremendous showing over the last year of all the different arts groups and all the different people.”

Javier Jimenez, Director, Lord Cultural Resources, delivered a keynote speech on Friday, November 23rd at the International Forum of Young Museum Professionals: "Museums as Cutting-edge Spaces" in Fuzhou City, China.

A trip to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg should be a must-do on everyone's list. 

Canada’s new $10 banknote will officially entered circulation on Monday November 15^th at a ceremony in Winnipeg.

The new note – Canada’s first vertically-oriented bill – features a portrait of late civil rights activist Viola Desmond on the front and Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights on the back.

The Ayala Museum and Filipinas Heritage Library were jointly awarded in the Leading Culture Destinations Awards – dubbed the “Oscars for Museums” – for best practices as a destination that influences and empowers visitors.

The director of the V&A on the institution’s expansion into east London, the antisemitism row in the Labour party, and the changing role of museums.

One Calgary councillor wants to pull money from the city's public art budget in order to shore up the finances of the beleaguered Heritage Park. 

The Leading Culture Destinations magazine shines light on the best established and emerging cultural destinations worldwide.
See pages 45-46 to learn about this year’s Soft Power Destination winners. Lord Cultural Resources is proud to partner with Leading Culture Destinations for the third year to present the Soft Power Destination Awards. Created to celebrate the power od cultural organisations to influence and empower their communities and beyond.

As officials braced for mudslides from the scorched earth above Malibu Wednesday, officials 1,400 miles away at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston joined the list of people coping with losses from the deadly California wildfires.

PARIS — The sprawling Quai Branly Museum in Paris is stuffed with treasure. It has some 70,000 objects from sub-Saharan Africa in its collection, including magnificent statues from present-day Benin and delicate paintings that once decorated church walls in Ethiopia. But a long-awaited report coming out this week could have a dramatic impact on what visitors see there, with repercussions for other international museums.

The Canadian War Museum announced Monday that it has acquired another Victoria Cross to add to its Hill 70 collection thanks to a donation from the Hill 70 Memorial project.
The medal, the highest honour bestowed to a combatant of a Commonwealth military organization, was awarded to Lt. Robert Hill Hanna of B Company of the 29th Infantry Battalion for “outstanding gallantry, personal courage and determined leading of his company.” The medal is the fourth that the museum has acquired. Six in total were awarded to Canadians.

Haa'yuups of the Hupacasath First Nation joins American Museum of Natural History project.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is launching a multi-year project to restore and conserve a section that highlights First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest.

From a Nebraskan adaptation of Stonehenge, but made of cars, to stacks of brightly colored rocks in Nevada, these structures look otherworldly—when they're really located in America

The 600-foot-tall monument has been completed in Gujarat, India.
The world’s tallest statue has been completed in Gujarat, India. Standing almost 600 feet tall, the Statue of Unity depicts Indian freedom fighter and politician Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement, and the first Deputy Prime Minister of India. Brought to fruition by Michael Graves & Associates in collaboration with Turner Construction and Meinhardt Group, the memorial took around 4 years to design and construct.

A new study shows that public art gallery attendance has doubled in Canada over the past 25 years or so.
A new study released today has some promising information for art galleries in Canada. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage, the insights in Canadians’ Arts, Culture or Heritage Participation in 2016 are based in StatsCan data and indicate that art-sector engagement is often higher than many expect.

Becoming London's first Borough of Culture next year is just the beginning of a fundamental change of approach for Waltham Forest, says Sam Hunt.
The competition for London’s first Borough of Culture was fiercely contested, with 22 of the capital’s local authorities submitting bids. It’s a concept that emerged from London’s mayor Sadiq Khan’s visit to Hull, UK City of Culture 2017, with the stated intention “to put culture at the heart of local communities, where it belongs. It will shine a light on the character and diversity of London’s boroughs and show culture is for everyone.”

A number of cities around the globe have discovered that a new museum or arts district not only revitalizes downtowns, they improve real-estate values as well. Home buyers are drawn to the buildings’ bold architecture, as well as the rotating exhibits, guest lectures and attractive indoor and outdoor common areas.