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April 2021
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Looking ahead to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. This annual celebration means more than ever this year in light of a recent rise in anti-Asian violence in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. We invite you to start the month off right by visiting this beautiful portal into current exhibits, collections, and other materials related to Asian and Pacific American heritage. We thank the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum who joined together to create this outstanding tribute to generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who enrich America's history — and its future.

Lord Cultural Resources has been honoured to work with many great museums and cultural centers across North America preserve the history, heritage and culture of Asian Americans, including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, and the Asia Society.

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Where did the Gardiner Expressway go? Once a barrier, now exciting things are happening underneath
Globe and Mail, April 25, 2021

Something strange, unexpected and kind of neat is happening to the Gardiner Expressway.

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Our Work with the Bentway
Chicago Will Turbocharge Its Public Art Budget by 15,000 Percent as Part of a New $60 Million Cultural Recovery Program
ArtNet News, April 20, 2021

It's the city’s largest support plan for the arts sector in years.

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Our Work with the City of Chicago
Parks Canada Releases Minister's Response To Round Table Consultations
National Parks Traveler, April 19, 2021

Canadians wants Parks Canada to work harder to make racialized communities, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ2+ communities and people living with disabilities feel welcome in its parks, conservation areas and historic sites.

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Our Work with Parks Canada
Grand Egyptian Museum Gives Historic Artifacts a Modern Context
ArchDaily, April 15, 2021

Designed by Irish architecture firm Heneghan Peng, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum devoted entirely to Egyptology is set to open this summer, sitting on the edge of the Giza Plateau, 2 km away from the Pyramids. Considered as the largest museum in the world dedicated to one civilization, the cultural complex will accommodate about 100,000 ancient artifacts, and will include 24,000m² of permanent exhibition space, a children’s museum, conference facilities, educational areas, a conservation center, and extensive gardens inside and around the museum's plan.

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Our Work with the Grand Egyptian Museum
Lord and Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue Announce New BIPOC Fellowship
Lord Cultural Resources, April 8, 2021

Canada is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, yet due to systemic racism, few of our cultural institutions reflect our diversity.

As a result, Canadians today and potential future generations are not experiencing the creative potential that Black, Indigenous, and other People of Colour (BIPOC) could bring to arts organizations, museums, and libraries as leaders; moreover BIPOC professionals are marginalized from leadership, often leaving the field and even the country to pursue opportunities elsewhere.

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Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience Will Donate Portion of Ticket Sales To New BIPOC Fellowship
SamaritanMag, April 6, 2021

Not only will the world premiere of Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this summer provide a cultural and safe sensory audio-visual art experience, but will raise money in the process.

The new production created by Normal Studio and produced by Beyond Exhibitions Inc. will donate one dollar for every ticket purchased to the Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) Fellowship, to help magnify the creative vision and voices in Canada of the BIPOC community. The fellowships will launch in the fall.

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Removing the colonial lens: The push to decolonize museums in Canada
APTN News, April 2, 2021

It’s no secret that museum collections have benefitted from the colonization of countries occupied by imperial powers such as Britain and France.

But in recent years, spurred in part by the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), there is a global push to decolonize museums.

And in Decolonizing Museums, Part 1, APTN Investigates takes a look at how that push is going in Canada – beginning with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR).

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Our Work with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
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Indigenous housing crisis inspires 'hopeful' art in MMFA exhibition
Montreal Gazette, April 22, 2021

There's a surprising sense of lightness, and life, to Anishinaabe-Québécoise visual artist Caroline Monnet's solo show Ninga Mìnèh.

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‘Still much work to be done’: artists and US museums react to Derek Chauvin conviction in George Floyd murder trial
The Art Newspaper, April 21, 2021

Former police officer faces up 40 years in prison, but systemic racism must now be addressed, says San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Undoing the Damage of Urban Freeways - Digital Event
Third Way, April 2, 2021

Transportation investments shape our communities — not always for the better. For decades, transportation planners invested in urban freeways that destroyed many communities of color. Recently, the Department of Transportation halted a planned expansion of I-45 in Houston, a project that would have displaced not only families, homes, and businesses but historic Black and brown communities.

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What's Gogh-ing on here?! At least 3 different Van Gogh light shows are happening this spring
CBC, April 22, 2021

It's one of the few things you can see doing during lockdown, but why are they all about Van Gogh?

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Rembrandt exhibition to headline National Gallery's exhibitions when it is allowed to open this spring
Ottawa Citizen, April 22, 2021

The first major Rembrandt exhibition in Canada in 52 years will headline the National Gallery of Canada’s spring-summer 2021 season — as soon as Ontario’s pandemic restrictions loosen, permitting art-lovers to enter the building.

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Some New York museums will ramp up to 50% visitor capacity next week under relaxed limits announced by governor
The Art Newspaper, April 21, 2021

Others welcome the change while scrutinising their Covid-19 safety procedures

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B.C. museum creating collection of COVID-19 pandemic artifacts for future generations to study
CBC, April 21, 2021

In the same way we look back on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, comparing, for instance, our face masks to theirs, future generations may, one day, wonder how British Columbians fared during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.

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When you can't go to an auto museum, these cars Zoom to you
Driving, April 20, 2021

Ontario's Canadian Automotive Museum hosts online presentations about Canada's auto history.

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Australian billionaire’s proposed museum for $380m art collection angers rural community
The Art Newspaper, April 20, 2021

Planning application for Melbourne businessman Lindsey Hogg’s Rosemaur Gallery has international support but faces local opposition.

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‘Squidgy’ and glowing entrance revealed for Melbourne’s newest museum
The Sydney Morning Herald, April 16, 2021

As any performer can tell you, first impressions count. And to make a good first impression, you need to think about your entrance.

This old thespian trick applies to cultural buildings, too. When the team behind the University of Melbourne’s new Science Gallery museum – set to open in June – turned their minds to their front door, they wanted it to reflect the themes that inspired the institution.

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UCLA’s Fowler Museum to reach out to Nigeria about returning its Benin bronzes
The Art Newspaper, April 14, 2021

As restitution momentum builds, director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it could lead discussions for the return of looted Benin objects in US museum collections.

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Cairo's palatial museum full of Impressionist treasures—closed for a decade after a Van Gogh was stolen—finally reopens to the public
The Art Newspaper, April 12, 2021

Egypt's Mr & Mrs Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum holds important works by artists including Paul Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet.

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V&A will not scrap focus on materials in restructuring U-turn
The Art Newspaper, April 1, 2021

An updated proposal will keep the collection organised around mediums instead of switching to a chronological approach.

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Art and Culture
WE-Making: How Arts & Culture Unite People to Work Toward Community Well-being (2021)
Metris Art Consulting, April 15, 2021

New Report Examines the Role of Arts and Culture in Fostering Social Cohesion and Community Well-Being.

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Pompeii's new director Gabriel Zuchtriegel: how archaeology moves beyond the 'elitist male gaze' of history
The Art Newspaper, April 12, 2021

The German-born archaeologist tells us about his fascination with the ancient world and the need to involve visitors in the discovery process.

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