An online public workshop providing details about the city's “State of Culture” will take place Tuesday, Feb. 9, as part of the city's Arts & Cultural Master Planning Project. The release says the Arts & Culture Master Plan is the first comprehensive city-wide study of arts and culture resources and assets in Kingston.

The Remai Modern's incoming chief curator, Michelle Jacques, has been working in mainstream public art museums since the mid-'90s, and in those early days, she was one of the only Black curators working in Canadian public art museums.

Lord Cultural Resources is currently working with Remai Modern to create their next strategic plan under the leadership of their new co-CEOs Aileen Burns and Johan Lund.

For a quarter of a century, The Historic New Orleans Collection has convened an annual symposium to speak to themes of historical interest. This year, we pause to listen.

The 25th Williams Research Center Symposium celebrates the voices of Black activists from the era of Reconstruction, as featured in three new THNOC publications. The protagonists of these books—journalists, poets, politicians, educators, and ardent champions of civil rights—have gone too long unheralded. Through their words, recovered from the archives, we will explore the origins and legacies of Black activism in New Orleans. The conversation unfolds in English and in French, in classrooms and newsrooms, and in the streets.

Postponed openings and tourism-revival efforts are combining to yield a bumper crop of new diversions across the country. Consider adding the following to your travel calendar this year.

After a year’s hiatus from the museum world, Heidi Zuckerman returns to the fold with a new job as director and chief executive of the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, California.  The museum has been closed since 2018, except for temporary spaces, awaiting relocation to a new building in the city’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts complex.  

Lord Cultural Resources worked with the museum to develop a Facilities Master Plan. Lord was later re-engaged to design and oversee an evaluation process for exhibitions, and developed and facilitated training sessions for OCMA staff.

The Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis is pleased to invite applications for the inaugural Teaching Artists-in-Residence in The California Studio. We are looking for artists in all disciplines, traditional and non-traditional, who are passionate about their research and eager to incorporate the vast resources of the university and the Northern California region into the classroom.

Jill Lewis, chair of the Huron-Perth Ag Science Centre Steering Committee, envisions a place in North Perth for kids and people of all ages to come and explore a variety of science, technology, engineering/ecology, arts/agriculture, and mathematics.

L+M Development Partners formally announced financing for a $349 million development project on the Bronx Harlem River waterfront in New York, including the Universal Hip Hop Museum.

From the much-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum to the Frick’s move to a Brutalist landmark, here are building projects that are changing cultural landscapes around the world.

A study on the feasibility of constructing an Agricultural Science Centre in North Perth was brought before council for discussion on Dec. 21. The centre would provide year-round education opportunities, primarily for children and their families.

Newburgh, buoyed by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and other funding, on Dec. 5 presented the initial results of an analysis of the city’s arts and culture resources.

Wilmington, Del., is a rather dull place, we are told, that sits in the shadow of its illustrious neighbor, Philadelphia, some 30 miles to the north.

In a year marked by physical distance, social networks have gained an even greater dimension in the ways people relate and get informed. Our channel on Instagram increased its reach by delivering the best of what we publish on our page: projects, articles, interviews, and news from the world of architecture.

UK Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick's plans to prevent the removal of controversial monuments reveals his inability to view the past as shifting and complex.

Naomi Beckwith, who succeeds Nancy Spector, comes from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She will help the museum create a more equitable work environment.

The program was designed by artist Steve McQueen and developed in partnership with Independent Curators International. The program, funded by Marian Goodman Gallery and designed by artist Steve McQueen, will award two research fellowships with the non-profit Independent Curators International.

On the heels of George Floyd’s death and Black Lives Matters protests, many American museum directors have stepped up their efforts to try to identify and dismantle systemic racism in their organisations. They want to “actively listen” when it comes to issues of racism, diversity and inclusion. But who exactly are they listening to? Many museums have been enlisting the help of racial equity consultants.

While the West continues to grapple with its colonial past, institutions from Togo to Cairo are creating more expansive models to celebrate art.

The National Gallery of Canada has named two leaders to newly created roles aimed at encouraging more diversity and inclusivity within the organization. Angela Cassie will serve as vice-president of strategic transformation and inclusion, while Tania Lafrenière will be senior vice-president of people, culture and belonging.

After a decades-long struggle, legislation to create a National Museum of the American Latino and a National Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution was approved last night by the US Congress.

The Plywood Project is an innovative consortium launched by partners - including non-profits, businesses, municipal agencies, and a wide variety of creative workers - to empower artists and communities of color most affected by our triple crises we now face: Covid-19, economic downtown, and racial injustice. The Plywood Project models collaboration, public-private partnership, and concrete action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion – and creates opportunities for long-term positive impact by generating beauty, dialogue, and income streams resulting from the Plywood Project artworks. Placing art, creativity, and collaboration at the center of today’s civic discourse, the Plywood Project asks all of us to transform this moment into an opportunity to offer cultural justice as part of the larger movement towards social justice. 

Museums worldwide, which are currently closed due to coronavirus restrictions, are doubling up as Covid-19 vaccine centres. In England, London's Science Museum is expected to open up for vaccinations, as is the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.

Staff at the Toronto Public Library have set their sights on calling more than 20,000 senior library users as part of a wellness check to see how they’re doing during the pandemic.

The Smithsonian Institution has scaled back its $2 billion plan for expanding buildings on the southern end of its Washington, DC, campus, while unveiling details of the restoration and renovation of its 1855 Castle and its 1881 Arts and Industries Building.

Lockdowns, stranded workers, a collapse in tourism revenue, the threat of looting: the stewards of cultural heritage sites across the globe have faced harrowing difficulties over the past year in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art.

The National Museum of American History in Washington spent much of 2020 shuttered but director Anthea Hartig says its work has not stopped.

Goya, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez and more are in skylit splendor in the European galleries. And the museum is acknowledging the shaping force on art of colonialism, slavery, the disenfranchisement of women.

It's been a busy year at MuseumNext.

Organizations have been challenged to chart a new course in a world beset by COVID-19 and in a society finally forced to confront its systemic, embedded racism. Museums have found both difficult—in some cases, even existentially threatening.

In the Bavarian town of Straubing, 84 works by 42 local artists are on show in a vaccination facility established in a trade exhibition centre. Patients awaiting their turn to be inoculated can pass the time studying installations and sculptures in the reception room.

The pandemic has decimated the livelihoods of those who work in the arts. How can the new administration intervene and make sure it doesn’t happen again?

More than 1,000 organizations will receive funding, the most ever for this annual program.

Like a lot of events this year, many grand museum openings were pushed back to 2021. While we wait, we can still safely peruse photos of some of the most impressive museum designs unveiled this year, and celebrate the ones that actually did open.

Few cities combine architecture and culture like Montréal. Canada’s second-largest metropolis has become a leading center for design, technology, and international events. Today, contemporary designs continue to transform the cityscape and its urban fabric.

The disconnect of 2020 has proven that the arts and culture industry does not (yet) have a digital strategy. Articles herald memes on TikTok from the Uffizi Gallery, Spotify playlists at the Tate or the art world’s virtual viewing rooms as bastions of digital pioneering. But how much of this innovation has been strategic?

The appointment of 56-year-old tech executive turned director Doug Gurr as director of the Natural History Museum ruffled a few feathers in the museum world given that all his 13 predecessors had come from science and curating. By contrast, Gurr headed Amazon in the UK and in China during his long private-sector business career.