We are thrilled to announce that Crain’s New York Business has named Joy Bailey-Bryant, Lord president and managing partner, as one of this year’s Notable Black Leaders. The 100 winners have all demonstrated significant accomplishments within their industry and communities.

“In honoring them, Crain’s celebrates Black New Yorkers’ success and advancement, spanning industries from law and finance to nonprofits and the arts."

"An ambitious $65-million project aims to make Woodland Cultural Centre a modern hub of arts, culture and reconciliation, with exhibits throughout the year and a state-of-the-art theatre."

“V&A East Storehouse, a new working store and visitor attraction in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, is opening on 31 May 2025.”

Lord Cultural Resources worked with the Victoria & Albert Museum to create an audience development program to involve local area residents in the life of this world famous museum.

“Africville has received a significant recognition. It has been designated as Canada's first UNESCO ‘Place of History and Memory Linked to Enslavement and the Slave Trade.’

‘It means that the story of Africville is not just important to Nova Scotia, but to Canada and beyond,’ said Juanita Peters, the executive director of Africville Museum.”

“With extensive and rare loans from the Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp, Belgium, which co-organized the exhibition with the Denver Art Museum, viewers are given a sweeping and often sumptuous and at times downright bawdy window into the world of Flemish art.”

“When it fully opens, the Grand Egyptian Museum will be the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilisation. It will house a collection of more than 100,000 artefacts across 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history.”

“The institution has been closed since 2018 for the expansion project. In its new building, the Studio Museum in Harlem will offer extensive exhibition, education and programme spaces, as well as improved public amenities.”

In 2012, we developed the Phase 1 Assessment: Program Review and Operating Parameters. The next year, we provided Capital Project Planning Services and worked with the museum staff and leadership to conduct community engagement and facilitate a staff planning process for evolving audiences and programs. In 2016, we prepared the business plan and projections for the project.

"The Weeksville Heritage Center in Central Brooklyn educates and preserves the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War, and the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses. The houses, which were built between 1840-1880, are examples of the homes of 19th century free African Americans. They were continuously inhabited from their construction until they were rediscovered and acquired by the museum in 1968.”

“Imagine it. 20th century, Durham, North Carolina. A Black child sits on the porch of their home reading a book or plays freely in their close-knit neighborhood or is loved because, and not in spite of, their refusal to be defined by anyone other than herself."

“A floating Indigenous welcome centre and exhibit would be 15,000 square feet, while the adjacent Maritime Museum of B.C. would be housed in 21,000 square feet in the historic CPR Steamship Terminal building.”

“Just Stop Oil said it is ‘unafraid to use the cultural power of their national institutions’ to fight the climate crisis.”

“The American Alliance of Museums announced forty museums participating in the upcoming Museum Social Impact in Practice (MSIIP) cohort, which will launch in Fall 2024. MSIIP responds to the challenge museums of all sizes and types share when trying to understand and articulate their value to society.”

“Being a global culture vulture doesn't have to be expensive. Whether you're into art, design, science or history there are plenty of museums in major cities where entry won't entail reaching for your wallet.”

“The Watts Towers were constructed from scrap metal and found objects. The spires are architectural marvels and monumental testaments of human ingenuity, outsider art, and vision.”

“Architecture in children’s shelters serves a purpose beyond building physical spaces; it is about creating refuges that nurture healing, protection, and growth. For vulnerable children, designing these environments plays a vital role in their emotional recovery. Every aspect—from natural lighting to room layout—works together to create a secure and welcoming atmosphere, supporting their physical well-being and psychological and social development.”

“The inaugural Indigenous Puppetry Institute saw the convening of contemporary practitioners of a form practiced for centuries.”

“Do some artworks hold evil energy—one that manifests in mysterious and nefarious ways to the detriment of those who come into contact with them? There’s no way to know for sure, though there are plenty of paintings in museums and private collections that are rumored to be cursed, inhabited by restless spirits or filled with malicious energy.”

“An intact tomb containing at least 12 skeletons and burial artifacts from the Nabataean civilization has been found underneath Petra’s Treasury. The discovery was made by a team led by the American Center of Research’s executive director, Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman.”

“This year, in honor of the opening day of hockey season, the Detroit Red Wings recreated the beloved sequence at the Detroit Institute of Arts, in a parody of the film starring former players Darren McCarty and Danny DeKeyser.”

“The market for African art in the U.K. has been growing steadily, despite global downturn and an embattled business landscape post-Brexit.”

“Commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, home to Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, the independent study used eye-tracking technology and MRI scans to record the brain activity of volunteers looking at genuine artworks and reproductions.”

“A First Nation in northern Ontario has reclaimed artifacts and centuries-old human remains from the Canadian Museum of History. The artifacts and human remains were originally dug up in the 1970s and 1980s from what is now a golf course run by the Town of Blind River.”

“After his triumphant Tate installation, The Procession, the artist is preparing a radical exhibition tackling Britain’s imperial past. He talks about why we must return plundered artefacts and rethink attitudes to heritage.”

“The show, created by Universcience, an organisation that works to make science accessible to all, and produced and toured for the North American market by Imagine, has already proved successful at the Montreal Science Centre, where it has drawn over 130,000 visitors since opening on 15 May 2024.”

“New attraction includes an oversized “beanpit” to play in. It will also house a curated gift shop selling rubs, sauces and BBQ-themed gifts.”

“Guests at the museum can chat to 13 specimens, including a dodo skeleton, a taxidermied red panda, and a preserved cockroach. Other specimens featured in the experience include a narwhal skeleton, a freeze-dried platypus, brain coral, and a taxidermied huia – an extinct bird from New Zealand.”