“The 35,000-square-metre museum, the largest of its kind in the region, will take visitors on an immersive journey through 13.8 billion years of natural history, including the Big Bang, and the rise and fall of dinosaurs.”

Lord provided master planning, governance, and partnership strategy for what will be the region’s largest natural-history museum—an immersive 35,000 m² journey through 13.8 billion years of life.

“FDR's Four Freedoms would become founding principles of the United Nations charter, even as war, divisions and fear remain. Ai Weiwei in fact got the idea of camouflage from seeing it in a wartime setting on a visit he made to the front lines in Ukraine this past summer.”

“The coming transformation of the 370-acre former Downsview Airport lands (now known as YZD) took a big step forward this week when an award-winning designer was announced for a key role in envisioning the future of the district's over two-kilometre-long runway.”

We’re collaborating with MVVA, winner of the YZD Runway Roadmap competition, transforming a 370-acre former airport into a landmark urban park.

"Celebrating its 20th anniversary with two new exhibitions, MoAD reopened Wednesday, Oct 1."

“Born as a direct result of the recommendations in our Chicago Cultural Plan, the Biennial continues to animate the city as a global architecture hub.”

“New York City’s Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) has added five new cultural nonprofits to its membership: the Bronx Children’s Museum, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection, Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT), and BRIC, a Brooklyn-based arts space.”

We congratulate long-time clients Louis Armstrong House Museum and BRIC on their achievement.

“No one doubts A.I.’s miraculous abilities. Museums would be fools to not tap its potential. Even so, institutions need to think critically about which of these shiny applications they and their audiences really benefit from.”

“The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Upper Manhattan is deaccessioning dozens of European Old Master works, including a painting from the workshop of El Greco, to raise money for collection care and acquisitions.”

“While museums everywhere strive to expand their collections, a new one opened last week with the opposite goal — to shrink its holdings until there’s nothing left to display. That museum is UNESCO’s Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. The immersive digital platform spotlights plundered cultural treasures, aiming to raise awareness of the scope and impact of the theft and illicit trafficking of global artifacts that carry valuable stories of history and shared identity.”

“The stands at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre challenge stereotypes and expectations about Indigenous art, displaying a wide variety of media and expressions from oil paintings and beadwork to performances and mixed-media works where territory, multiculturalism, ritual, nature and identity intersect, while sparking art-historical conversations with Western art.”

“The Nova Scotia government has approved plans for Canada's first-ever whale sanctuary, which could house some of the beluga whales currently living at Marineland in Niagara Falls. Following the approval, the Whale Sanctuary Project can now start building and raising the capital funds for a sanctuary for captive cetaceans.”

“It confronts themes of white supremacy and Black subjugation in America by creating dialogues between contemporary art and Confederate monuments that were dethroned and decommissioned during the racial reckonings of recent years. And the monuments themselves, though now in a museum setting instead of a park or public square, still have an unnegotiable, unmovable sort of heft.”

“It is the first finding of a human face on a T-shaped pillar—a type of monolith found en masse within a constellation of prehistoric sanctuaries known as Taş Tepeler, or the Stone Mounds. This area includes Karahan Tepe as well as the World Heritage List-inscribed site of Göbekli Tepe, the world’s oldest known temple complex.”

“The discovery was made as part of Pompeii Reset, an ongoing project by the Pompeii Archaeological Park and Berlin’s Humboldt University—for which researchers have used state-of-the-art technology to create 3D reconstructions of buildings that once stood in the ancient city, but were lost in 79AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried them in ash.”

“Architect Julia Watson has followed up her seminal book Lo-TEK with a new volume focused specifically on Indigenous approaches to extreme water scenarios. Here, she shares an exclusive preview of eight examples from floating farms to sponge parks.”

“Despite fears that online access is eroding the art world, digital tools are helping audiences and artists reimagine how art is seen and shared. The digital boom isn’t a death knell for museums and galleries but a chance to democratize art and deepen engagement.”

“In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI.”

“The artefacts include pieces implicated in trafficking networks conducted by the smugglers Robin Symes and Eugene Alexander. Symes, a British art dealer who died in 2023, fell from grace after a 2016 probe by the Carabinieri, Italy's specialist art investigation squad, revealed him to be the ringleader of an international criminal looting syndicate that spanned decades.”

“Darrel Nasogaluak has spent years learning to build the long, slender kayaks Inuvialuit once used for beluga hunting. He may soon have the chance to see one of the traditional vessels up close. The kayak, along with other Indigenous artifacts, have been locked away in the Vatican Museums and are now set to return to Canada, though the details are still under discussion.”