Collectors who seek to house their acquisitions in a private museum may find the process much more complicated than it initially appears. Gail Lord is quoted on the issues and costs that may be encountered in the creation, operation, and maintenance of such spaces.

In Fall 2018, during its 50th anniversary, the Studio Museum Harlem will break ground on its 82,000-square-foot future home on the site of its existing building. The new structure will more than double the space for exhibition and the museum’s Artist-in-Residence program, as well as outdoor space.

Toronto's Design Exchange museum's coming 10-day festival, EDIT, aims to speak to a larger part of the population, with its something-for-everyone approach. Under the wildly optimistic theme of Prosperity for All, it eschews the aesthetic to instead celebrate what design can do to solve the most pressing problems of our times and improve our lives – all our lives.

Dallas has changed dramatically since 2002, when the city last drafted a Cultural Plan. Lord Cultural Resources has partnered directly with the city's Office of Cultural Affairs to help build a blueprint for the future, intended to address where the arts are headed in Dallas, who needs funding and why, and who'll provide the capital.

One of the most anticipated museums to open in the U.S., the National Museum of African American History and Culture generated excitement before its doors even opened. With an additional 80,000 additional passes supplied in its first week to accommodate the amount of people waiting to visit, expectations were high. So how did the first year go?

Curator Nadia Kurd discusses pieces from the Gallery's permanent collection, which has a strong focus on regional and Indigenous art.

On Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary this year, chief minister Nitish Kumar will gift the country its most modern museum. Chief secretary Anjani Kumar Singh stresses that the Bihar Museum will not just be a viewing gallery of exhibits, but "it will be an experience museum".

After more than 25 years at the Railway Exchange Building, the Chicago Architecture Foundation is moving to a new location in the heart of the city, where it will establish the Chicago Architecture Center.

Lord Cultural Resources was first commisioned by the Chicago Architecture Foundation in 2006 to assess the feasibility of a Chicago Architecture Center, and most recently was re-engaged to update the business plan and projections for this exciting new site and facility.

The Leading Culture Destinations Awards – or “The Oscars for museums” – have been decided, and three incredible organizations have won this year’s Soft Power Destinations of the Year awards.

China and India are engaged in a wary competition for regional influence and leadership. For much of the summer, the two nations were locked in a border standoff over a remote mountain pass in the Himalayas. But more and more, the two Asian giants are also competing to project soft power — or cultural influence — outside their borders.

In their #Wanderlust coverage, Forbes endorses the The Leading Culture Destinations Awards longlist as a means by which to find the best cultural destinations while travelling.

UNESCO writes that cultural soft power "strives to foster the exchange of views and ideas, promote knowledge of other cultures, and build bridges between communities." In this 2-page PDF, they have created a Q&A style guide to Soft Power and its key messages.

This year’s #AskACurator day—the annual social-media Q&A blitz—was not without controversy internationally. One British Museum curator was called out for racism, and debate erupted between a science museum and a natural history museum in the UK. While Canada's dialogue was quieter, a few shortfalls, curiosities and treasures were nonetheless revealed.

A new lighthouse for art, Zeitz MOCAA is destined to lead the way, displaying works not just from Cape Town and the rest of South Africa but also from across the continent. “We’ve waited so long for this: a platform for Africans to tell our story and create our own identity,” said Mark Coetzee, 53, the museum’s executive director and chief curator.

New York City’s building owners are facing a tall order: Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier this month that the city will become the first to mandate that existing buildings—from municipal offices to private businesses, hospitals, and apartments—must drastically curb their carbon emissions, or face hefty penalties.

The aftermath of this season's hurricanes has raised familiar questions about land use and zoning, urbanization and sprawl, climate change and sea-level rise, and, in the architecture community, resilient design.

Buzzy start-up Dreamscape Immersive locations intends to offer virtual-reality experiences in lieu of movies. Its technology, developed by a Swiss motion-capture firm, allows up to six people to explore a virtual-reality environment at once, seeing fully rendered avatars of one another.

Hyperloop One has announced 10 winning submissions in a long-running contest to find what it believes to be the best places to build the first hyperloop tracks in the world. Ten teams across five countries (Mexico, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada) were picked from the original 2,600 submissions, and the routes range in size from about 200 to nearly 700 miles.

A new show, “The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility,” takes a broad look at how art and design relate to, and use, the border’s geography and dense history. It is the Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM)’s contribution to “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”—a citywide examination of Latinx art and art from Latin America. 

Kent Monkman’s revisioning of the Canadian artistic, social, political and sexual landscape is the most radical rethinking of the way our society functions any artist has accomplished in the 150 years since Confederation.

Jaime Colsa owns a transport company that delivers ordinary consumer goods. The contents of his trucks aren’t eye-catching, but his vehicles certainly are, adorned with paintings showing cartoonlike faces, dogs, brightly colored geometric patterns, spirals and landscapes. These trucks that crisscross Spain have been painted by artists as part of the Truck Art Project. Financed by Mr. Colsa, the project aims in part to bring street art back to its roots.

Painter William LaChance had worked on a large scale before. But when he saw an image of his next canvas, via Google Earth, he wondered if he’d bitten off more than he could chew. The surface stretched across 175 feet of concrete in the Kinloch neighborhood of St. Louis. (For context, that’s longer than Michelangelo’s 133-foot-long Sistine Chapel ceiling.) 

Since its first iteration in 2005, "Park(ing) Day" has enlivened countless blocks around the world, with interventions in spaces normally reserved for stationary cars. Last year’s event, for instance, featured a streetside ping pong table in Los Angeles, a delightfully twee succulent garden in Madrid, and a giant inflatable Pokemon in Singapore.