During a moving ceremony to remember the six million Jewish victims of Nazi genocide during the Second World War, Mayor Valérie Plante pledged $1.5 million for the new Montreal Holocaust Museum, slated to open on St-Laurent Blvd . in 2025.

The Miraflores Museum in Guatemala opened its doors on April 27^th. Located in present-day Guatemala City, the Museo Miraflores is placed on what was the southern end of the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyú. The museum showcases over 2000 years of artifacts which were excavated from the site including pottery, jewelry, sculpture and obsidian objects. The museum is a located a short drive to Kaminaljuyú archaeological park.

Myseum Intersections is an annual city-wide festival that explores arts, culture, and community in Toronto. Throughout the month of April, join us for our first in-person Intersections festival in over two years and rediscover the city through the lens of 5 collaborative projects, with 30+ artists and 10+ community collectives involved. From Parkdale to North York, and Black Creek to Etobicoke, experience free events, exhibits, tours, and workshops that explore contemporary conversations about our city.

Lord Cultural Resources was engaged to assist with site selection and functional programming for a permanent hub for Myseum.

Sing Sing Prison Museum is celebrating National Poetry Month with a video program of poetry readings featuring Nascimento Blair, Jose Perez, Mimi Pascual and Ivan Calaff. SSPM museum associate Robert Rose III moderates the program that also showcases historical poetry published in 1849 by incarcerated people at Mt. Pleasant State Prison (renamed Sing Sing Prison in the 1850s).

Since the 1980s, the center has been a local fixture despite its small size; it will now relocate to a new 43,000-square-foot facility in the city’s cultural corridor.

Resolution regarding the new appointment is effective from its date of issuance.

"That idea of shared experience is actually something that is very much at the root of Ken Lum’s investigations."

Lord Cultural Resources was engaged to provide strategic planning and business planning services for the Remai Modern.

Lord Cultural Resources is proud to be a part of the LCDBerlin Awards 2022. We’ve partnered with LCD on the Soft Power Destination Award category, recognizing soft power best practice including cohesion, inclusion and community-based bottom-up projects, which impact their local communities.

Le gouvernement fédéral a annoncé dans son budget dévoilé jeudi qu’il versera 20 millions de dollars en 2022-2023 au ministère du Patrimoine canadien pour appuyer la construction du nouveau Musée de l’Holocauste, à Montréal.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re happy to offer a free download of the April 2022 issue of Poetry! You can find the free issue in the Poetry Magazine App, available through the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon. You can also download a PDF of the issue here.

In 2021, the Poetry Foundation embarked on a project to develop a Strategic Plan to fulfill their commitment of creating an organization that better reflects, respects, and represents the poetry ecosystem. Lord Cultural Resources was asked to guide the Poetry Foundation through this process.

After 5 previous Biennale exhibitions, the celebrated artist finally gets top billing at the Canada pavilion.

Special mentions for best national participation went to France and Uganda.

At NYU’s Latinx Project, a group exhibition explores how Latin, African, and Asian diaspora artists promote sustainability beyond borders.

“I’ve been in the museum field for quite a while,” said the 28-year-old. “Sadly, it was the lack of diversity that motivated me to write the book. I wanted to shed some light on the lack of diversity in the field. I also wanted to strike the curiosity of young readers’ minds early and to get them thinking about history and art museums.”

Kate Fowle, who arrived in 2019, is carving out an independent identity for the Queens institution distinct from that of MoMA.

A landmark international gathering focused on Indigenous topics will take place in April in honor of the first-ever Sámi Pavilion.

The Barre Museum is said to hold the largest collection of Lakota objects and human remains from the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.

Ken Johnston and Deborah Price, of Willingboro, are walking from Cape May to Burlington, N.J. tracing the Underground Railroad routes to freedom.

Burkinabe architect takes the profession’s highest honour, having made his name with schools and medical facilities in Africa, built by local communities with minimal resources.

Redesigned buildings with outdoor gathering areas were underway before Covid hit. Now, they look like 20/20 foresight.

The latest edition of the annual Otis College Report on the Creative Economy makes the point that even as California’s arts sector bounces back, long-term support is needed to ensure it truly thrives.

And the long history of why protecting physical culture matters.

The New Exhibition is an online showcase shining a light on work of Ukrainian designers, illustrators, animators and other creatives that have been caught in the crossfire of war.

UK culture minister, Auschwitz Memorial and Europa Nostra call for the June event to be relocated following Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary in June, topped the list.

Presidio Tunnel Tops is San Francisco’s upcoming national park destination, set to welcome visitors starting July 17th. The project reconnects the park formerly split in two by the Doyle Drive by creating new landscaped land over the highway now moved underground. Designed by James Corner Field Operations, the firm behind New York’s High Line, the project brings 5.6 hectares (14 acres) of new parkland to the Bay Area, featuring trails, picnic areas, and scenic views over the city as well as a nature play area for kids.

A $1,500 donation will buy annual ‘inheritance pass’ valid for entry in 2172, part of a fundraising drive to mark the park’s 150th year.

Caracas’s Museum of Modern Art, a symbol of a westernized Venezuela, was dismantled by the Socialist governments. Its modest recovery offers hope to the troubled nation.

For museums hoping to thrive in a climate that’s been economically roiled by a pandemic and radically transformed by a digital and social awakening, the blockchain surely represents an attractive avenue. With it, a handful of art institutions have embarked on NFT sales and programs, and opened the door to cryptocurrency — all in a bid to generate revenue and engage audiences with tech-forwardness. But rising alongside this eagerness to embrace the buzzy technology are also real questions about how it might play a sustained and sustaining role within museums.

For the past couple of years, the metaverse has been gaining prominence, prompting architects to consider its implications for our relationship with the physical environment and how can architecture contribute to this new virtual space. Architecture in the metaverse is no longer a fringe subject, having been embraced by established firms. "The metaverse is where much of the architectural action and innovation will be happening in the coming period," says Patrick Schumacher. Unbound from restraints such as physics, material properties and construction costs, the metaverse unlocked a new realm of architectural expression. The following looks at some of the various ways the profession engages with the expanding field of digital environments.

From Singapore to the UAE, these net zero structures are setting a new green standard.