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Poetry Foundation Announces New Strategic Plan to Serve as Roadmap
The Poetry Foundation partnered with Lord Cultural Resources, a global practice leader in cultural sector planning, to assist in support its strategic planning process. In addition to gathering insights from Foundation staff, a key aspect of this process was the Audience Perception Survey which provided invaluable insights from the public on how people in the literary world perceive the Foundation and how they think it can grow. Read More
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OUR CLIENTS & LORD |
Gwinnett County drafts roadmap to support local creatives, bolster art economy
Saporta Report, September 26, 2022
Create Gwinnett is intended to facilitate more artistic opportunities, foster creative spaces and bolster the arts economy while also strengthening and celebrating what makes Gwinnett unique. With about seventy-five percent of the county left in unincorporated territory — meaning only 25 percent of Gwinnett falls into a city — a comprehensive master plan is essential for the county’s creative sector to blossom.
The plan is being drafted by nonprofit Artworks Gwinnett and consulting firm Lord Cultural Resources. So far, according to Artworks Gwinnett Chair Jonathan Holmes, the plan is about 65 percent complete.
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TREATY: A Reconciliation Revelry
Niagara Parks, September 22, 2022
Niagara Parks presents this free concert event produced and directed by Tim Johnson, Mohawk, Six Nations of the Grand River. Embark on a journey of varied experiences that lead Canadians through stories of encounter and conflict to resolution, landing on uplifting notes of recognition, understanding, and respect.
Explore stories and messages through video, narrative, and, of course, popular music that audiences will know and love. TREATY: A Reconciliation Revelry raises awareness of Indigenous contributions to Canada and their struggle for appropriate acknowledgement.
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Donor’s pledge $30M for stalled waterfront art gallery project
CBC, September 15, 2022
Private donors have so far pledged $30 million to help pay for the construction of the proposed Halifax waterfront home for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS), a project the Houston government put a halt to in July.
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Winning design revealed for Montreal Holocaust Museum’s new location on “The Main”
The Architect’s Newspaper, September 12, 2022
The winning design proposal in an international architecture competition seeking a new home for the Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) have been revealed by the competition-winning team of Toronto-headquartered KPMB Architects and local multidisciplinary studio Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Architecture.
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Toppled statues should return
The Free Press, September 10, 2022
The statues of British royalty that were toppled in Winnipeg remain hidden. They shouldn’t be. They should be brought back into the limelight, still in their damaged state, as symbols of an important public uprising in this city’s history. Gail Lord published an opinion column in the Globe and Mail on Aug. 20 that notes governments worldwide don’t know how to proceed with statues of disgraced historical figures.
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Beaverbrook Art Gallery gearing up to reveal new pavilion
CTV News, September 8, 2022
The Beaverbrook Gallery was buzzing and busy with finishing touches ahead of a new pavilion opening.
The provincial gallery closed for the pandemic more than two years ago. But now, it's reopening with a brand-new face — the Harrison McCain Pavilion.
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Detroit arts official with ties to NYC will lead the Urban League's civil rights museum in Harlem
Gothamist, September 6, 2022
The historic Black rights organization the National Urban League announced Tuesday that New York City's new civil rights history museum will be headed by a museum leader from Detroit.
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Motown Museum unveils new renderings as expansion work heads into homestretch
Detroit Free Press, September 7, 2022
It’s the third and final phase of the museum’s expansion project, which was announced in 2016. At an event last month featuring dignitaries and Motown stars, the museum unveiled its first two stages of expansion work: a granite plaza out front and a complex dubbed Hitsville Next, situated in three houses along West Grand Boulevard.
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Reciprocity makes the world go round: Highlights from the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Member Appreciation Day
The Daily Sun, September 4, 2022
The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) held its second annual Member Appreciation Day on Saturday August 27th in reciprocity to the benefactors that make operating the museum possible.
The keynote event of Member Appreciation Day kicked off in the exhibit of the Great Unknown: the announcement and discussion of the museum’s five-year strategic plan.
“We've set our plan at five years and the idea is it will set us on a path that will lead us directly to, hopefully, a very exciting Centennial in 2028,” Kershaw said to the gathered members of the museum. “We consulted a number of stakeholders here in Flagstaff and across the Colorado Plateau. By stakeholders what I mean is people and organizations who’s area of interest overlap with ours, and people who feel passionate about the Museum of Northern Arizona and want to be involved in its future.”
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Aperture Foundation Lands a New Headquarters
The New York Times, September, 2022
The non-profit photography organization will relocate in 2024, to offices across from the American Museum of Natural History, with greater visibility.
Lord Cultural Resources is engaged to provide strategic planning services for the Aperture Foundation.
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IDEA |
Two years ago, museums across the U.S. promised to address diversity and equity. Here’s exactly what they have done so far
Artnet News, September 5, 2022
We surveyed museums from New York to Detroit to Los Angeles to get a sense of where equity initiatives stand.
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Artists shine a light on the history of Indian boarding schools
Hyperallergic, September 5, 2022
Created by Shizu Saldamando, an artist with Japanese and Mexican roots who’s based in California, the 2019 portrait speaks to the practice of separating children from their families, elevating conversations around resilience and resistance even as a new wave of historical denialism is flooding America’s political landscape.
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What is a ‘museum’? A revised definition looks forward, not back.
Washington Post, August 27, 2022
The International Council of Museums now describes museums as institutions that are — or should be — “accessible and inclusive” and foster “diversity and sustainability.”
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Industry group adds the word ‘diversity’ to its definition of museums—but some say it’s not enough
Art News, August 26, 2022
After a year-long controversy, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has approved a new definition for what makes a museum today, marking the first time in 15 years that the group has done so.
The new definition describes a museum as “a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets, and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage,” adding that it is “open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally, and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection, and knowledge sharing.”
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MUSEUMS |
Lucas Museum delays opening until 2025, reveals acquisitions including Ernie Barnes and John Singer Sargent works
The Art Newspaper, September 23, 2022
The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park.
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Chief concerned about artifacts First Nations don’t know about being held by museums
The Canadian Press, September 22, 2022
A treaty medallion on its original leather strap has returned home to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) in northern Alberta.
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Orange County Museum of art celebrates its new building with a 24-hour opening party
Hyperallergic, September 19, 2022
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis Studios, OCMA reopens on October 8 with performances, film screenings, and more.
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Northern Alberta dinosaur museum floats a different way to hunt for fossils
CBC, September 17, 2022
Rafting or boating was how a lot of fossil prospecting was done back in the day.
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You can help the Smithsonian pick a design for Jeff Bezos’s new astronaut incubator at the National Air and Space Museum
Artnet News, September 15, 2022
The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, D.C., has released five design proposals for their forthcoming Bezos Learning Center, inviting the public to explore and give feedback via their website through September 19.
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ART & CULTURE |
With a new $50 million endowment, Bard College will invest big in the study of indigenous culture, art, and history
Artnet News, September 28, 2022
The money will be used for faculty appointments, student scholarships, and the establishment of a new Center for Indigenous Studies.
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What do native artists think of Michael Heizer’s new land art work?
Hyperallergic, September 22, 2022
Characterizations of the artist’s newest work, and that of other White land artists of his generation, sometimes ignore questions of place and locality that are central to Indigenous thinking.
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Elizabeth the restorer: why Britain’s longest-reigning monarch should also be remembered as its greatest preservationist
Artnet news, September 19, 2022
From tackling the destruction of World War II to reconstructing a scorched Windsor Castle, the late Queen devoted her reign to restoring Britain’s material culture.
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Possible copyright changes could mean more money for Inuit artists
CBC, September 10, 2022
In December 2021, federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne received a mandate letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that included a directive to amend Canada's Copyright Act to allow for resale rights for artists.
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Queen Elizabeth II, proprietor in trust of one of the world's greatest art collections, has died, aged 96
The Art Newspaper, September 8, 2022
Britain’s longest-serving monarch died at Balmoral, her private estate in Aberdeenshire. During her reign she oversaw the opening up of the Royal Collection to the public and to art history.
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"This building belongs to the people": Cape Verde’s new centre for art, crafts and design
Arch Daily, September 7, 2022
São Vicente is the second most populous island in the country and makes up the northern insular group called Sotavento, along with Santo Antão, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal and Boa Vista. Its largest city, Mindelo, has a port vocation and has historically been the point of departure and arrival for people and goods. Marked by traffic, the city is a place of passage and intense cultural exchanges. It is also home to the first museum built in the country, the National Centre for Art, Crafts and Design — CNAD.
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I am land that speaks Is on View at ArtworxTO Hub South in Toronto’s Union Station
Hyperallergic, September 5, 2022
Curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, works by Eric Gallardo, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Tania Willard, and more explore how public spaces reflect our past, present, and future.
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ARCHITECTURE |
Aga Khan Award for Architecture announces winners of the 2020-2022 cycle
Archdaily, September 23, 2022
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) announced the winners of the 2022 edition. From a pool of 463 projects nominated for the 15th Award Cycle (2020-2022), the six winners show examples of architectural excellence in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, historic preservation, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment. Two projects from Bangladesh, one from Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, and Senegal, will share the UDS 1 million award, one of the largest in architecture.
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TECHNOLOGY |
A new start-up wants to decentralize art museums using Web3 technology
ArtNews, August 25, 2022
The Web3 start-up Arkive has the epic goal of decentralizing a core component of the art world: the museum.
This is the basic idea behind many collecting DAOs, such as Fingerprints DAO or the Museum of Crypto Art, which pool together resources and decision making power throughout their membership. But Arkive does something different: members don’t put down any funds to participate (at least for now), the works it collects are meant to be loaned out to cultural institutions, and the objects that Arkive acquires are not only digital ones.
“The idea is that you’re part of a community that has that ability to decide what gets brought out and put into the world,” said Arkive founder Tom McLeod in an interview with ARTnews.
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