In her first major interview since taking the role at the New York museum, the curator and museum leader outlines her vision.

Cultural districts are playing a key cultural and social role throughout the world in the twenty-first century. They offer an incomparable density of art and culture and have a profound influence on the development of cities and regions. "World Culture Districts" presents the first-ever overview of this phenomenon, featuring fifteen of the most important cultural districts on six continents. The range of different kinds of cultural districts and their respective influence on space and society is revealed, and essays by international experts such as Gail Lord, Adrian Ellis, Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, Vitus H. Weh and Christian Strasser shed light on current issues surrounding their development and impact.

Join Gail Lord, President and Co-Founder, Lord Cultural Resources at the MUŻE.X - Shaping Museum Futures Conference in Malta. She will be part of a panel discussion on October 20.
As museums navigate uncertain times, we might ask whether museums can morph into genuinely democratic, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for critical conversations about pasts and futures. This conference seeks to present the latest thinking, actions and initiatives that modestly or radically depart from the traditional museum idea, to rethink the museum of the future.

The visitors keep coming. Elevators are still packed. Museum exhibits continue to glow with intrigue, power and enlightenment.

The city has allocated $26.4 million for the Queens Museum to complete its expansion project which includes a children’s museum space, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.

Assiniboine Park was founded in 1904 and opened in 1909. One of Manitoba’s most visited attractions with over 4.5 million visitors a year, the park is now managed by the Assiniboine Park Conservancy (APC) and is undergoing a major $200 million revitalisation.

The long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open in five years, said the institution’s director Richard Armstrong at a press briefing held today in Basel. “We think it should be five years from next week,” he said, adding that he is due to visit the Middle East shortly. “It looks like everything is coming together so we can say something definitive. It has been a relatively long gestation,” he said. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, an outpost of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, was first announced in 2006.

The First Americans Museum (FAM) will open to the public this weekend in Oklahoma City and will tell the collective stories of survival from the perspective of 39 distinct Tribal Nations.

The City of Kingston is making strides to bolster its local arts community, unveiling the Kingston Arts and Culture Master Plan Wednesday evening.

The multifaceted plan was a joint effort between local residents, the Kingston Arts and Cultural Affairs Office and Lord Cultural Resources. It outlines a multitude of ways to grow the arts and culture economy, as well as how to keep it aligned with municipal goals for the future. The final plan was formulated following a process including: a needs assessment for the city, public outreach and data and economic input analysis.

We have launched Season 2 of our video series. Join Lord’s vast team of the most curious, diverse, and experienced members as they share provocative and revealing conversations with some of the most spectacular thought leaders from around the world, representing many of the 2,700 institutions Lord has worked with over the years.

Social activists, cultural leaders, and scholars of art, science, and history, all engage in this video series that showcases the stories, ideas, and questions that are challenging the culture sector worldwide.

Tune in to ‘Culture Break’ each Friday, beginning September 10th, at 12pm EST.

In May, Canadians were shocked at the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the site of a former school in British Columbia. The bodies belonged to Indigenous children, who went through Canada’s state-sponsored “residential school” system. The schools, scattered across the country, were aimed at eradicating the culture and languages of the country’s Indigenous populations.

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center has built the new facility to house more than 25,000 "life-specific" works, created over years by untrained artists using found materials

Germany's president called on Germans to face the country's cruel colonial past as he opened a new museum in the capital's center that will be home to two of Berlin’s state museums.

When visitors enter Berlin’s Humboldt Forum today they will be confronted by a new way of interpreting the institution’s large collection of colonial-era art as it deals head on with its controversial history.

Opening next week, the Los Angeles museum dedicated to the history of cinema will include reimagined displays on diverse stars and “less than proud” moments.

The British Museum has promised to plough on with its bank-breaking Rosetta Project to give a less Eurocentric view of the world despite the publication of figures laying bare the catastrophic impact of the pandemic.

The Delaware Art Museum confronts its racist history by mounting an exhibition it rejected 50 years ago, along with many others.

An innovative community project has brightened buildings, ‘brought people together’ and provided an emotional outlet after traumatic journeys.

At the International Culture Conference 2021, Foreign Minister Schallenberg spoke about the importance of foreign culture as an instrument of soft power and diplomacy. He also highlighted some of the various new initiatives and programs to promote foreign culture, such as the "International Music Dialogues," the “On the road again” initiative for visual artists, “Repair of the Future - the Global Casting of Tomorrow,” and more.

In Mendoza, Argentina, the digital fabrication research lab Node 39 FabLab created a frame loom structure made of digitally cut wood to help indigenous people in the central region of the country weave and create their traditional patterns.

L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, an installation designed by the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, has opened to the public in Paris. The installation sees the iconic triumphal arch on the Champs-Élysées shrouded in 25,000 square metres of silvery, recyclable fabric, which is tied in place by 7,000 metres of red rope.

Studio Libeskind crafts National Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam, designing dramatic geometric shapes that carry the message of remembrance

The massive interactive art installation hides the clues to a mystery—and the work of 120 local artists.

The Nicholas Metivier Gallery is pleased to announce that Lithium Mines #2 by Edward Burtynsky has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of their permanent collection. The Met's Department of Photographs houses a collection of more than 75,000 works spanning the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present.

With a presale estimate of more than US$30 million, a self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, titled Diego y yo (Diego and I), is poised to become the most valuable Latin American art ever publicly offered when it’s auctioned at Sotheby’s in November.

In a blow to the UK’s standing as a soft culture superpower, the British Council is “significantly reducing its operations” in 20 countries including Afghanistan and Australia as part of a cost-cutting exercise.