Featured Story: City council approves major support for Canada's Art Gallery of Hamilton
Flamborough Today
A new partnership and up to $1.5M in one-time funding will help preserve cultural heritage and spark economic growth, say city officials.
“Museums are city builders,” said Gail Lord, Co-founder and Partner of Lord, addressing city council. “They attract industry, talent, and tourism—and the Art Gallery of Hamilton is proof. It’s been a 100-year love story with the people of this city.”[Watch here]
This summer, AGH is going free for all visitors. Their “Hamilton Strong” initiative supports health, wellness—and love for local culture.
“The heritage walk marks the curtain-raiser to the Bihar Museum Biennale, which will be formally inaugurated on August 7. The biennale will witness participation from multiple countries of the Global South, including South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and others.”
“While there are more than 200 art and architecture biennials in the world today, India’s Bihar Museum under the leadership of Director General Anjani Kumar Singh has invented a remarkable new type of biennial: a Museum Biennial. I am so proud of our work with the Bihar Museum, from planning through exhibitions to opening.” – Gail Lord, Lord Co-Founder & Partner
“Tate Modern’s extended opening hours will contribute to the vibrancy of London’s night-time cultural offering, giving many visitors the chance to enjoy art after work on a Friday and Saturday.”
Lord Cultural Resources was initially commissioned to study the quality of visitors’ experiences when Tate established two distinct institutions: Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Later, LCR carried out a Visitor Services Review for Tate Modern and a new Visitor Audit for both Tate Britain and Tate Modern.
“What is described as the world’s oldest surviving basketball court was recently discovered in a former YMCA building in the U.S.-Canada border town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Business leaders and elected officials think the historic court could become a tourist draw for the small town.”
“There will be six permanent galleries across two floors spanning 300,000 years of human history and a temporary exhibition gallery. The collection will comprise artifacts from across the UAE including Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age objects, as well as those loaned from domestic and international institutions.”
In 2006, Lord Cultural Resources was engaged to complete the original Master Plan for the Sheikh Zayed National Museum. Based on extensive consultations with those who knew or worked with him, our concept was centred on the core values of Sheikh Zayed himself, all of which formed the guiding principles on which the UAE was founded and which continue to animate the life of the nation today.
“The Museum of the Rockies has launched a highly anticipated new exhibit titled ‘Cretaceous Crossroads,’ showcasing the rich paleontological history of Montana through mounted skeletons and interactive displays.”
We are honored to partner with Mongolia’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youthto reimagine the National Museum of Natural Sciences - a new civic space for education, storytelling and scientific inquiry. We look forward to keeping you updated on this exciting new project!
“This fall, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is set to open an expansive exhibition that invites viewers to imagine Blackness as one of limitless possibilities. Titled UNBOUND: Art, Blackness, and the Universe, it's a group exhibition that explores the ‘critical connections between Blackness, scientific and spiritual cosmologies, and post-human thought.’”
“This month, AMNH launched Discoverer, a free-admission membership programme for New York State residents receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. Snap beneficiaries may bring up to four guests with them on visits to the museum and, after enrolling in the programme, are able to reserve advance tickets online.”
“Amid rollbacks in federal arts funding and sweeping layoffs at cultural institutions across the United States, visitor attendance appears to remain on a steady incline at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Manhattan museum announced yesterday, July 21, that more than 5.7 million attendees visited its two locations — The Met Fifth Ave and The Cloisters — during the 2025 fiscal year, which ended on June 30.”
“The Great Migration was a period between around 1910 and 1970, when millions of African Americans uprooted from the rural South to the North America’s Midwest, West, and Northeast. The museum will highlight the experiences and hardships they endured as they migrated north, including racism, Jim Crow segregation laws, and violence. Its program will include virtual reality exhibitions.”
“If you're a dedicated art lover, you likely go to great lengths to visit renowned museums and galleries. But even when you’re not traveling, you can still get a look at their masterpieces and architecture through interactive virtual tours—what's more, they'll let you skip the lines and crowds, enter for free at any hour, and stay as long as you like.”
“The Murujuga site, located in the Pilbara region in Western Australia, is comprised of ancient Aboriginal rock art that predates such notable monuments as Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza. It contains more than 1 million known petroglyphs, including the oldest depiction of a human face, dating as far back as 50,000 years.”
“Born out of a time when it was almost impossible to reach out and touch someone, an Edmonton art installation appears to be calling out to those on the global stage.
‘Play it by Ear,’ an interactive art installation by Calgary artists Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett, has been nominated as one of the top 100 public art projects by CODAworx, a public art industry group.”
“There’s people who like puzzles and then there’s people who really like puzzles. Here’s hoping folks at the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) are the latter, as that’s who is tasked with the painstaking reconstruction of a huge installation of Ancient Roman frescoes unearthed in central London.”
“As Afghanistan sees a surprising uptick in tourism despite years of conflict, thousands of miles away in New Delhi, it is the ache of displacement and ‘desire for homeland’ that unites Afghan refugees. On World Refugee Day, June 21, this shared sense of nostalgia and resilience brought together hundreds of people from Afghan, Iranian, Burmese and other refugee communities for an evening of music and memory organised by The Migration and Asylum Project at Alliance Francaise.”
“Ever wondered about a place where whispers of birds and the silence of reading melt gently into a sprawling, breezy park? Pritzker Laureate’s and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, in collaboration with Ricky Liu & Associates, are about to make that dream come true with the design of a vibrant art museum, Taichung Green Museumbrary.”
“A new architectural guidebook was written as a love letter to the Ukrainian city – then Russia started bombing it. How will this home to Tetris-like offices and daring curved cinemas be rebuilt?”
“A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.”
“While it does not address every conservation challenge, such as remediating mould or stabilising physical damage, it does offer restorers the opportunity to visually reconstruct painted images with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI).”
“The artwork was repatriated from Germany through diplomatic channels, arranged by the Italian Consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, after having been returned from the heirs of the last owner, a deceased German citizen. The mosaic – dating between mid- to last-century B.C. and the first century – is considered a work of ‘extraordinary cultural interest,’ experts said.”
“The studies, developed in partnership between the First Peoples’ Cultural Council and K’yuu Enterprise Corporation, call for changes including the creation of a centralized body to facilitate the work, a repatriation accreditation program for museums and other institutions, and ‘substantial’ funding and support from the provincial and federal government.”