The Book

Artists, Patrons, and the Public: Why Culture Changes
by Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord

In their new book, Barry and Gail Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions of why and how culture changes. They situate their discourse on aesthetic culture within a broad and inclusive definition of culture in relation to material, physical and socio-political cultures.

This book is intended for artists, students, and teachers of art history, museum studies, cultural studies, and philosophy, and for cultural workers in all media and disciplines. It is above all intended for those who think of themselves first as audience because we are all participants in cultural change.

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Book Reviews

By Viviane Gosselin, curator of contemporary issues at the Museum of Vancouver and associate researcher with the UBC Centre for the study of Historical Conciousness.

Viviane Gosselin, curator of contemporary issues at the Museum of Vancouver and associate researcher with the UBC Centre for the study of Historical Conciousness, reviews Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes in March/April 2011 issue of Muse magazine. You can read the review here.

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By The Art Newspaper, January, 2011 (no.220) issue.

The Art Newspaper has reviewed the latest book by Gail and Barry Lord Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes in the January, 2011 (no.220) issue. Please click here to read the review.

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By Scott Kratz, Vice President for Education for the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Scott Kratz, Vice President for Education for the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., reviews Gail and Barry Lord's book Artists, Patrons, and the Public: Why Culture Changes in the September-October issue of Museum. To read the review entitled "The Modern Patron", click here ».

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By Marta Braun, Director, Graduate Program of Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, Ryerson University.

This important and timely book by Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord helps us understand exactly what it is that we call 'culture' and how culture changes. I am impressed by the way the authors lay out basic definitions of words and even concepts that we have always take for granted without condescending to their readers. For that reason, among others, I think that this book will find a wide audience among specialists in areas such as museology and art history and also among the general public... Read More »

Events

Gail and Barry Lord Speaking about Cultural Change in New York Barry and Gail Lord, Tom Finkelpearl, Deborah Fisher and Ernesto Pujol engaged in a stimulating conversation on cultural change, based on the book Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes on October 27, 2011 at MagnanMetz Gallery, 521 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001. After almost two lifetimes working in the cultural field, including three decades as Co-Presidents of Lord Cultural Resources, the world’s largest cultural planning and management firm, Barry Lord and Gail Lord have realized that they have been involved in cultural change all over the world for forty to fifty years. Their newest book Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes advances a theory of culture as a whole along with seven principles of cultural change. New York City cultural leaders, representing the three cultural change agents outlined in the book, shared their insights:
Ernesto Pujol – ARTIST – Performance artist and social choreographer represented by MagnanMetz Gallery Deborah Fisher – PATRON – Executive Director, A Blade of Grass Tom Finkelpearl – PUBLIC – Executive Director, Queen’s Museum of Art and author of Dialogues in Public Art Host Dara Metz, Director, MagnanMetz Gallery, welcomed guests and Amy Kaufman, Managing Director US, Lord Cultural Resources, introduced speakers and moderated conversation. Video: This is part 1 of 7. To see all seven parts, please visit LordCultural on You Tube.

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Why Culture Changes - Gail and Barry Lord Present at the Art Gallery of Mississauga Barry and Gail Lord discussed their new book Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON, on October 27, 2010 . For presentation, click here. Read the article about the event in Mississauga News. Photo by Steven Der-Garabedian.

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Gail and Barry Lord's book launch got coverage in Canadian Architect For three decades, Barry and Gail Lord have wielded their formidable knowledge and immense influence in the planning and management of cultural institutions worldwide. Read the article about the launch of Gail and Barry's new book at the July, 2010 issue of Canadian Architect magazine by clicking here. Photo: Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord flank Rita Davies, Executive Director of Culture at the City of Toronto, in an intimate discussion at the book launch for Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes, held at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto in May, 2010.