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August 2023
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Developers selected for Family Court Building project incorporating AAMP, Free Library, and ‘premier lifestyle hotel’

Developers have been selected to revamp the Family Court Building into a hotel. An adjacent lot will hold the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Free Library’s new Children and Family Center.

During Wednesday’s news conference, Mayor Jim Kenney said the parkway location is exactly where the African American Museum should be, not across the street from a prison, where the current facility is located.

“It’s not just African American history, it’s American history,” Kenney said. “It’s just been denied. It’s been ripped out of the history books. This is where it belongs.” Read More

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New Mexico Museum of Art Adds $20.2m Contemporary Art Outpost
The Art Newspaper, August 28, 2023

The new Vladem Contemporary, which adds exhibition, education and storage space, aims to showcase recent art in a state best-known for its Modernist traditions.

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OUR WORK WITH NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ARTS
Fredericton's Beaverbrook Art Gallery Puts Entire Permanent Collection Online for World to See
CBC, August 26, 2023

Art lovers and researchers around the world are now just a click away from exploring the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's permanent collection.

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OUR WORK WITH BEAVERBROOK ART GALLERY
City Seeks Feedback on Draft Strategies for Arts and Culture Growth
City of Charlotte, August 25, 2023

The City of Charlotte and a community steering group are seeking public feedback on draft strategies for the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan.

Lord Cultural Resources is working with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to define a vision for Arts & Culture in Charlotte. This Arts and Culture Plan will work to increase recognition of arts & culture as key to economic development and cultural tourism in the 21st century, unify the culturally rich neighborhoods that make Charlotte a unique and vibrant city/county, and design a Blueprint for Charlotte’s Cultural Future.

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Memorial Park Conservancy Audio Exhibition Is Now Open
Lord Cultural Resources, August 23, 2023

Explore the 1917 Houston “Mutiny & Riots” through the words of decedents and community members with six onsite audio experiences, available until September 26th.

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Our Future - Monterey Museum of Art
Monterey Museum of Art, August 23, 2023

For over 60 years, The Monterey Museum of Art has served the community, preserving and presenting the legacy of California art through enriching exhibitions, public programs, and art education initiatives.

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OUR WORK WITH MMA
Lacma Reaches $750m Fundraising Goal for New Peter Zumthor-Designed Building
The Art Newspaper, August 23, 2023

The museum says its new building, which stretches across Wilshire Boulevard, is now 65% complete.

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OUR WORK WITH LACMA
Art Gallery Of Hamilton's “Breathing in China” Exhibit Comes Amid Summer of Air-Quality News
CBC News, August 17, 2023

Exhibit ‘a reminder’ that reducing pollution requires political work, says AGH curator.

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OUR WORK WITH AGH
Uncovering Death by Fire
Science, August 17, 2023

Wildfires, intensified by climate change and perhaps human activity, may have doomed Southern California’s big mammals 13,000 years ago.

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Saudi Film Hajjan Set to Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival
Vogue Arabia , August 7, 2023

The latest title from Egyptian filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky, the man behind Cannes 2018 favorite Yomeddine, is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is a collaborative production between Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, or Ithra, and Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic.

Lord Cultural Resources was instrumental in the development of the cultural and creative spaces and programs that comprise the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra). Opened in 2018, Ithra, an initiative of Saudi Aramco, is the most significant destination of its kind in Saudi Arabia.  

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Museum of the City of New York Names New President
The New York Times, July 18, 2023

Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, who most recently served as president and chief executive of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, will assume the role in September.

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Art Exhibition Digs Women Out of Archives at The Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre
CBC News, August 18, 2023

“Where are all the women? Celebrating Women in Indigenous Art” runs until mid-September.

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Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s Climate Initiative Awards $2.7m More in Grants and Extends Programme Until 2025
The Art Newspaper, August 9, 2023

The initiative, which initially was intended to award $10m total in grants, will now give out $15m for ecological projects at art non-profits.

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MUSEUMS
'More Than 1,500' Artefacts Were Stolen from British Museum, Internal Investigation Reportedly Reveals
The Art Newspaper, August 22, 2023

A Unesco antiquities trafficking expert says the theft is "probably the worst case so far".

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Louisville, Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum Announces Speed Outdoors, A New Sculpture Garden to Be Designed by Reed Hilderbrand
The Architect’s Newspaper, August 15, 2023

Louisville, Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum displays works by Claude Monet, Paul Klee, and Kiki Smith throughout its galleries.

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The Canadian Canoe Museum Is Getting a New Home
CBC News, August 4, 2023

The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ont., has the biggest collection of canoes in the world but it has lived in a cramped — and dry — former canoe factory nowhere near any body of water. But that is about to change when it moves to a beautiful new waterfront location in the spring.

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Planned Centre Pompidou Outpost In New Jersey Is ‘A Circus of Waste And Excess’, According To Republican Report
The Art Newspaper, August 3, 2023

A Republican state senator is taking Jersey City’s mayor and New Jersey’s governor to task over the delayed museum project.

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Controversy At Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi Raises Important Questions Over Private Museums in Public Life
The Art Newspaper, August 2, 2023

The firing of a curator for making critical statements against the museum's founder has prompted a long-overdue debate within the art world.

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$30: The Entrance Fee to America’s Museums Keeps Rising
The New York Times, August 1, 2023

Their buildings have expanded and expenses have surged, even as attendance slowed. Art lovers will bear the cost: The Guggenheim is the latest to increase its price of admission to $30 — the new normal.

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New Standards for Museums with Native American Collections (SMNAC) Now Available
American Alliance of Museums, July 25, 2023

Today, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) announced the release of the Standards for Museums with Native American Collections (SMNAC), a comprehensive document to help museums clarify and strengthen their roles as stewards, and improve the museum field as a whole with regard to Native American peoples, communities, and cultural items.

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ARCHITECTURE
Canadian Jamie Fobert Conquers London with His Fuss-Free Architecture
The Globe and Mail, August 4, 2023

The $70-million revamp of this national institution opened in late June, designed by Fobert’s studio with heritage experts Purcell and exhibition designers Nissen Richards.

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Dallas Museum of Art Picks Spanish Architecture Firm for Campus Overhaul
The Art Newspaper, August 3, 2023

Madrid-based Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was selected from a shortlist of six firms vying to transform the Texan museum.

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Toronto’s New Courthouse Reveals The Limits Of What Architecture Can Do
The Globe and Mail, July 24, 2023

The Ontario Court of Justice, which opened earlier this year, is an extraordinarily refined public building. This is the first built work in Canada by international firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), collaborating with Toronto firm Norr.

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ART & CULTURE
10 Outdoor Art Experiences in New York City
Hyperallergic, August 17, 2023

From a peaceful sculpture garden to an immersible installation, these city-wide artworks, parks, and activities are the perfect way to enjoy the last month of summer.

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Niger Coup Upends Country’s Venice Biennale Plans
The Art Newspaper, August 11, 2023

Niger, which is participating in the current architecture biennale, had planned to show at next year’s art biennale for the first time.

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What Took You So Long? Unesco Will Ask for Venice To Be Added To The Endangered Heritage Sites List
The Art Newspaper, August 1, 2023

The organisation has repeatedly bowed to pressure from the Italian government not to do so.

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In Aspen and Denver, Two Distinct Art Ecosystems Are Thriving
The Art Newspaper, July 31, 2023

Colorado’s destination cities are attracting more of the wider art world every year, but is that good for the local art scenes?

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Worldwide Investment in Cultural Projects Continues to Rebound, with $15 Billion of Infrastructure Completed or Announced in 2022
Artnet News, July 27, 2023

It’s an encouraging sign for the post-pandemic art world. Global investment in cultural infrastructure returned to pre-pandemic levels last year, with total costs of completed and announced projects in 2022 hitting an estimated overall value of $15.1 billion.

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Curator Eva Respini Joins Vancouver Art Gallery at Transformative Moment for the Institution
The Art Newspaper, July 27, 2023

Respini, previously the chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, comes to the Vancouver museum as it plans a major building project.

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TECHNOLOGY
Ukraine Has Launched an Online Database That Lists Artworks Owned by Sanctioned Russians
Artnet News, August 9, 2023

The goal of the project is to prevent Russian oligarchs from using art to evade sanctions and launder money.

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New Augmented Reality App Turns Objects at The Metropolitan Museum into Digital Gaming Accessories
The Art Newspaper, August 1, 2023

The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox.

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REPATRIATION
Dresden Museum Returns Four Objects to Australia’s Kaurna Community
The Art Newspaper, August 17, 2023

The spear, digging stick, cudgel and net were brought home by German missionaries nearly 200 years ago.

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Museum In New York State Returns Remains Of 19 Native Americans to Oneida Indian Nation
WGRZ, August 3, 2023

The Rochester Museum and Science Center in New York state has returned the ancestral remains of 19 Native Americans to the Oneida Indian Nation.

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'The Last Remaining Argument Against Restitution Has Now Been Lost'
The Art Newspaper, August 1, 2023

To make the British Museum fit for the 21st century it must create a comprehensive publicly accessible database of its entire collection, argues Dan Hicks, curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

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