"Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts"

Lord Cultural Resources worked with the Victoria & Albert Museum to create an audience development program to involve local area residents in the life of this world famous museum.

“Egypt unveiled three new tombs of prominent statesman in the Dra Abu al-Naga necropolis in Luxor, officials said on Monday. Archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names and titles of their owners through inscriptions found within, according to a statement by the tourism and antiquities ministry.”

“It’s been a long time coming – nearly two years – but Oak Hammock Marsh’s Wetland Discovery Centre is finally opening its doors to the public again this weekend. The discovery centre is where each year 100,000 people come to learn about wetlands and Manitoba’s ecosystem.”

“From reconciliation to women’s rights, over 100 students from across the province have created projects to help educate visitors at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.”

“Breaking barriers is woven into the team’s DNA in more ways than one. The Wave play their home games at Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, home to Negro League baseball games in the 1930s and ’40s. The stadium is a historic venue once again as the Wave’s players try to make a name for themselves in the league and as female athletes as a whole.”

“The Rockford Area Arts Council has made a key first step in what will be a yearslong process to repurpose the former Illinois National Guard Armory into a cultural civic center and artists’ lofts.

The council won a $1.54 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that is critical to efforts to clean up asbestos and other environmental hazards before redevelopment can move forward.”

“New Yorkers can now trade in their red public library cards for a special edition honoring the centennial of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Designed by the New York Public Library (NYPL) and the Brooklyn-based studio Morcos Key, the limited-edition library card features the late sculptor Houston Conwill’s 1991 ‘Rivers,’ a terrazzo art installation at the Schomburg under which the poet Langston Hughes’s ashes are interred.”

“Used in English towns and cities as early as 1574, scold's bridles were employed to discourage individuals, usually women, who were judged to have spoken rebelliously, inappropriately or out of turn. Historians at Leeds City Museum, where the object is on show, believe their bridle was made in the 17th Century.”

“Within Paris thrive about 200 institutions, each with a collection of its own. ‘One of my favorite things about Paris is the concentration of cultural hot spots,’ says French artist and academician Jean-Michel Othoniel.”

“A new museum dedicated to the life and art of Frida Kahlo will open in Mexico City’s historic Coyoacán district this September. The museum will be set in the Casa Roja, a private residence purchased by Kahlo’s parents and passed down through the family over generations.”

“A judge blocked the Institute of Museum and Library Services from carrying out Trump’s mandate to gut the agency, but the future of funding remains uncertain.”

“The executive director of Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, had been due to announce her plans as curator of the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale.”

“Today, Mam and other Mayan languages are expanding their reach, as indigenous people from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are spreading them in the US through immigration.”

“Photographer Spandita Malik invited nine women in North India to embroider their own portraits, reclaiming domestic spaces as liberated havens for their inner worlds.”

“It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.”

“The installation consists of a broad woven wool fabric that gradually unknits according to a guided choreography of algorithmic precision, completely disassembling by the end of the Biennale's exhibition.”

“With federal funding to fight climate change in jeopardy, it may be architecture and landscape architecture firms, along with the associations that represent them, that will be increasingly counted upon to rise to the challenge of advancing the fight.”

“But quite recently, in the real world there has been a rapid tipping point in thinking on machine consciousness, where credible voices have become concerned that this is no longer the stuff of science fiction.”

“A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as Isabel Allende and Delia Owens. The Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have apologized.”

“Collectively valued at $500,000, the Mesopotamian relics are believed to have been looted and at least one was linked to the dealer and suspected trafficker Robin Symes.”

“A kangaroo tooth headband and 10 glass spearheads, some of which are more than 100 years old, were voluntarily returned by the museum to the Larrakia Community of Australia’s Northern Territory in a handover ceremony on May 20.”

“The items returned included funerary items that were taken illegally from tombs in northern Peru during the 1960s and ’70s. The return marks the second time New York officials have repatriated a group of works to Peru.”