Please join us in congratulating several members of our team as they step into new roles. Yvonne Tang, Holly Shen and Eve Moros Ortega, all invaluable members of our team, are now Senior Directors where they will continue demonstrating outstanding dedication, leadership and expertise. Katherine Molineux and Lisa Wright are now Directors at Lord, having shown incredible passion for their projects and deep commitment to our mission to make the world a better place through culture.

We can't wait to share more about their incredible projects with you!

“Set against the Giza pyramids, Egypt’s long-awaited $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum isn’t just the world’s largest archaeological institution—it’s a reclamation of legacy, told in limestone and light.”

“Things kick off with a 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner on May 8th, 2025, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in AGB’s Rotary Shoreline Banquet Room. Featuring a Courtyard Reception with oysters and sparkling wine, a three-course meal led by Millcroft Catering, a keynote address from Gail Lord, Co-Founder of Lord Cultural Resources, a live auction, and live music.”

Lord is currently developing a Facility Master Plan and Future Needs Feasibility Study to review potential renovation or expansion of the existing building and the possibility of a new facility with architectural firm Brook McIlroy. 

“The new toolkit provides exhibition templates for beginners, unity game engine plugins for customization, and comprehensive development workflows and documentation. It is designed for multiple exhibition platforms, including web browsers, mobile devices and virtual reality.”

Lord Cultural Resources completed a multi-component planning and programming feasibility study for the renovation and expansion of MacKenzie Art Gallery’s existing facility, which included a high-level site and facility assessment, contextual and comparables analysis, a detailed facility program, a high-level concept design, an order of magnitude capital costing, and finally attendance, operating revenue, and expense projections.

“What is color? The answer to that question is often that it’s subjective. But such vagueness can somehow still leave intact pale, male, and stale color theories of the past as the default. A gem of a group show, All That Remains at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, spotlights artists who subvert modernist orthodoxies and open up new vistas in how we might relate to color.”

“The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the country’s largest museum devoted to Canadian art, has also received $18m from the federal government toward the renovation and expansion project.”

“A new museum in Shanghai leaps into our top ten and European museums continue their strong performance, but our exclusive annual survey finds that some British institutions are still lagging behind.”

“Videos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in recent days show the extent of looting of the country’s antiquities.”

“Over the past two decades, a new collector has entered the fray: the ultra-wealthy, willing to spend tens of millions in pursuit of personal trophies. Whether at auction or in the private market, museums don’t stand a chance.”

“After devastating fires blazed through the region, residents are holding on to the intricate glazed tiles that survived — small but meaningful remnants of their homes.”

“The four nominees for this year’s Turner Prize have been announced. They include Scottish sculptor Nnena Kalu, who is nonverbal autistic, and Mohammed Sami, an Iraqi British painter born and raised under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. The other two artists shortlisted were Rene Matić from Peterborough and London-based Korean Canadian artist Zadie Xa.”

“Increasingly, the country is also building a reputation for its cultural development, with new Louvre and Guggenheim museums opening in Abu Dhabi, the highly-acclaimed Sharjah Biennale now in its 16^th edition and Art Dubai, the region’s leading art fair, attracting and encouraging an expanding creative community of both homegrown and global talent. As the art world descends for this year’s fair, we meet some of the women shaping Dubai’s cultural landscape.”

“The installation, Unceded: Voices of the Land, might ‘be the most important expression of Canadian Indigeneity ever presented in an exhibition outside of this country,’ according to Mark O’Neill, the former president and CEO of the Canadian Museum of History, which hosted Unceded in 2019.”

“A good conversation can make time feel like it's passing more quickly. But is this effect solely due to the verbal exchange, or could our perception of time be shaped by the spatial conditions surrounding us?”

“The term ‘biophilia’ understandably conjures images of buildings engulfed by vegetation and integrated into natural landscapes. In modern architectural discourse, the concept has come to be associated with the incorporation of greenery into built environments, yet such applications represent only a sliver of biophilic design's true scope. Inarguably, nature plays a central role in biophilic design.”

“Canadians are being ushered into a new era of AI-powered productivity, creativity and communication. But they are forging ahead without the digital literacy needed to navigate AI technologies and their impacts effectively, safely and critically.”

“What does an increasingly digital age mean for cultural institutions? This is the question at the heart of a gathering, hosted by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), which aims to bring the museum and technology communities into closer dialogue.”

“France will repatriate the skulls of King Toera and two Sakalava warriors to Madagascar, marking the first return of human remains under a new French law passed in 2023. The remains, which were taken during France’s colonization of the island in 1897, have been held for more than a century in Paris’s Natural History Museum.”

“The remains of 36 Indigenous ancestors will be returned to Australia, in the latest repatriation of bodies taken from their traditional lands.Six of the ancestors' bodies were formally returned to their Queensland communities - Woppaburra, Warrgamay, Wuthathi and Yadhaighana - at a ceremony at London's Natural History Museum.”

“Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.”