A major site-specific exhibition from the Jamaican visual artist Ebony G. Patterson is set to open in May.

Years in the making, the indoor portion of The Leaf in Assiniboine Park is preparing to welcome public for holiday season.

Nearly two years after city government embarked on a mission to revamp arts funding, the mayor and Charlotte City Council responded to a progress report during Monday’s council meeting by calling for greater involvement in the process.
Lord Cultural Resources has been engaged by the City of Charlotte to create the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan. A year-long process, the plan will be completed in 2023.

The Los Angeles institution is hoping to connect today’s climate disasters with the ice age fossils discovered on its grounds.

The museum-produced book, “Making Her Mark: The Women of Niagara-on-the-Lake,” which is a look at some of the town’s historic women, has won the Excellence in Publication award at the Ontario Museum Association’s Awards of Excellence.

Lord Cultural Resources is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication, the Manual of Museum Exhibitions 3rd Edition. To celebrate we hosted a webinar on the latest trends. During the hour-long webinar, we talked with the book’s editor, Maria Piacente, followed by a panel discussion with museum and cultural expert contributors.

A new non-commercial, visual art focused gallery is in planning stages for Yellowknife. The Board of Directors of Friends of the NWT Art Gallery voted on Oct. 27 to proceed with their plans to create the gallery after receiving the results of a feasibility study by Lord Cultural Resources, an arts sector consultancy headquartered in Toronto.

Hamilton Jewish Federation will present the first #nomoreantisemitism International Conference in Hamilton, Ontario, Nov. 19-21. #nomoreantisemitism is a three-day event. Each of the three days features keynote speakers, as well as an exhibition with book sales, displays and booths hosted by community organizations.

Just as the Rennie Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown has closed its doors after 13 years and a farewell exhibition featuring highlights from its extensive collection, the Chinese Canadian Museum (CCM) due to occupy the same space by next summer has hired Melissa Karmen Lee as its inaugural Chief Executive.

Lord Thought Leader Jamie Bennett’s first public appearance at the University of Florida’s Center for Arts in Medicine moderating a panel that included NEA Chairman María Rosario Jackson.

Ancient House is delighted to be hosting a touring exhibition called Nothing About Us Without Us, about the history of disability, created by young and disabled people living in Norfolk, UK. The initial idea came from Ancient House Teenage History Club alumni Bethan Rees. She worked with other young people to identify thirteen objects from across the Norfolk Museums collections which explore social attitudes to physical and hidden disability during the last 200 years.

Tracy Needles is leading the charge on building accessible spaces for all of Google’s offices. Since 2020, she has served as the global lead for accessibility and inclusion for the tech giant’s Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) division, which maintains the company’s properties, transportation, and infrastructure.

Art museum staffs have grown more diverse in recent years, particularly in leadership roles, a new report reveals. But equal representation in the field remains far off.

The Shanghai Astronomy Museum has won an "Oscar" in the themed entertainment industry for providing an immerse "universe" for its visitors.
It has become the nation's first of its kind to win a Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement announced by Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Expo in Orlando, Florida, last week.

Thieves have stolen a hoard of Celtic coins worth several million euros from a German museum after apparently disrupting local telephone and internet connections.

Nearly every culture around the world seems to adorn their heads.
"Headdresses around the World" is an exhibit at the Pointe-a-Calliere Museum that provides proof of this.
The exhibit includes around 300 headbands, bonnets, crowns, and more.

Following a six-year renovation and, more significantly, a pivotal redo, Italy’s Museum of Civilizations reopened its doors to the public on October 26.

Sarah Quinton, the curatorial director emeritus of the Textile Museum of Canada, has won a Distinguished Career Award from the Ontario Museum Association.

In 2020, the Niagara Falls History Museum collected thousands of crocheted and knitted poppies from around the world - over 11,000 of them!  After developing their display, they donated some of their leftover poppies for us to continue the movement in Niagara on the Lake.

For more than 30 years, the CIA Museum has been one of the most mysterious collections of artifacts in the world. Housed in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia—one of the most secure buildings in the United States—the museum tells the story of the government’s clandestine undertakings from the Cold War through the CIA’s mission in May 2011 to kill Osama bin Laden to today.

The Association of Art Museum Directors, a prominent museum group that includes many of the most important art institutions in the U.S. and Canada, released a statement speaking out against climate activists’ recent protests in Europe, which have sometimes involved flinging liquids at artworks.

As part of the art world continued efforts to reduce their ecological footprint, the Climate Museum is marshalling the power of art to educate the public and motivate change.

How are museums bringing technology into their galleries? From immersive storytelling to games, augmented reality to robots, the Digital Exhibitions Summit will share important trends, the latest strategies, and inspiring projects from around the globe.

Nottinghamshire site central to the Robin Hood legend received £33m in public funding less than a year ago but is now facing liquidation after being rocked by a series of internal misconduct allegations.

On November 4, 2022, Sandra Laronde was appointed to the Order of Ontario for 2021 for her outstanding contribution to arts and culture in Ontario and elsewhere. The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, will bestow the province’s highest honour to the new appointees at a ceremony to be held on November 21, 2022.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has announced the Victoria P. Sant Fund for Women Artists, which will help grow the museum’s collection of historic through contemporary artworks from female-identifying artists.

The world’s 57 best buildings were competing in different categories for this year’s Dezeen Awards, which are given by Dezeen, an influential, London-based architecture and interior design magazine.
The Argo Museum received the award in the cultural building category.

Four finalist concept designs were just unveiled by the Portland Museum of Art for a planned expansion of the institution set to be completed by 2026 in the thriving New England cultural capital.

More than a million users have left the social media giant Twitter since Elon Musk took over on 28 October. "The bird is freed," tweeted the business magnate who has long-accused the platform of heavy-handed censorship.