"The Hamilton Public Library is taking the first steps towards establishment of a library branch at the former Discovery Centre next to Pier 8. The plan is to develop a new library branch, Indigenous gathering space, cultural heritage exhibition space, café, and visitor amenities. Lord Cultural Resources has been engaged to lead the Discovery Centre Program Design and Development Study. The Study will guide the future use and design of the building and help shape the next phase of planning and engagement. Lord Cultural Resources will work closely with the project team, Indigenous community, local partners, and members of the public to gather ideas."

“The Rockford Area Arts Council celebrated the first anniversary of its cultural plan at the ‘State of Culture’ event held at City Stage Studios. The event marked a year since the implementation of the Rockford Region Cultural Plan, which focuses on advocacy and policy, youth and arts education, neighborhood and space development, and inclusivity and intersectional collaboration.”

“Kazakhstan is not known internationally for major art institutions, but entrepreneur Nurlan Smagulov is hoping to change that. His Almaty Museum of Arts, which opened in that city of 2.2 million on Friday, is the first private museum in the country devoted to Modern and contemporary art. It boasts a collection of more than 700 works drawn from Smagulov’s own collection, which is focused primarily on the art of Kazakhstan and Central Asia.”

The Almaty Museum of Arts was Lord Cultural Resources’ fourth specialized planning engagement in the Republic of Kazakhstan since 2015. We collaborated with the client - affiliated with Astana Group - in undertaking the initial Strategy, Business and Facility Planning, working alongside project Contemporary Art Advisors, and appointed Design/Engineering teams.

Our team is looking forward to attending this year's ICOM Conference in Dubai in November. Lord Co-founder and Partner Gail Lord will be co-leading a mentoring session for young museum professionals. We look forward to sharing more details soon!

“This autumn, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the New Museum will reopen with ambitious new facilities that reflect renewed commitments to artists and the evolving civic role of contemporary art.”

“Two years ago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London secured the complete archives of David Bowie. So vast and so dazzling is the archive, in fact, that the museum has now built an entire treasure house around it. This weekend sees the opening of the David Bowie Centre as part of the V&A East Storehouse, the museum’s spanking-new facility at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.”

“Asheville takes definitive steps toward realizing a new large-scale arts and entertainment facility. The City of Asheville has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ATG Entertainment (ATG) for predevelopment work to create a public-private facility.”

ArtsAVL is working with Lord Cultural Resources on a collaborative arts recovery plan for Asheville and Buncombe County. The goal: bring partners together post-Hurricane Helene to focus on revitalizing and strengthening the region's arts and culture.

“Totally Tactile is run by the Nature in Art Museum and Art Gallery in Gloucester. The idea of the exhibition is to make the museum more inclusive for blind or partially sighted people whilst giving sighted people a different perspective and experience.”

“The art historian Matthew Holman makes his personal selection from a collection spanning 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art.”

“The region's artists and arts institutions are charting their own course, pursuing the radical reintegration of tradition, innovation and cultural sovereignty.”

“There’s delicate antique silver from France, a bright yellow Bombardier Ski-Doo snowmobile and a host of iconic modernist chairs. Those who know the remarkable design and decorative arts collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts may be pleased to recognize some old friends as it reopens the Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion, which closed for renovations in 2022.”

“Creative Time and MTA Arts & Design are presenting 'If you hear something, free something,' a sonic artwork that interrupts New York’s daily noise.”

“Borusan Contemporary presents Edward Burtynsky: Shifting Topography, the Canadian artist’s first major solo exhibition in Türkiye, curated by Marcus Schubert. The show brings new work together with a comprehensive selection of works from Burtynsky’s oeuvre from the past 30 years.”

“Local Waurá activists have taken the Brazilian government to task for complacency towards global warming as their ancestral pottery practice becomes harder to maintain.”

“A fire ripped through a 19th-century warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, late Wednesday, collapsing parts of the building and wiping out dozens of artist studios ahead of a major neighborhood open studios weekend.”

“The great kinetic artist has never been properly celebrated in his hometown of Philadelphia – until now. But is a $90m subterranean labyrinth, created by Herzog & de Meuron, really the answer?”

“Rome’s Colosseum not only hosted gladiatorial games, but also animal hunts, mock-up naval battles, and even a few plays.”

“Too much of today’s conversation about A.I. is stuck in the wrong frame. While pundits debate whether robots will steal jobs, the real question is much simpler: Can we prepare workers fast enough, or are we about to watch millions of people get economically steamrolled?”

“A recent workshop in Manhattan’s Lower East Side challenged the notion that the takeover of machine learning is inevitable.”

“The Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor is working to repatriate funerary items and human remains to the Wabanaki Nations that had been missing from its collection — some unknowingly — for decades.”

“A resolution before the assembly called on the AFN to create First Nations-led task force to develop a national repatriation strategy. It also called on the federal government to implement the recommendations from the Canadian Museums Association's 2022 report on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including long-term funding to support First Nations' repatriation efforts."