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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Los Angeles-based Lorcan OHerlihy Architects , for instance, has advanced the concept of shipping container architecture, ushering it into the realm of sustainable neighborhood development. The firms Isla Intersections project in South Los Angeles closed a nearby street (a rarity in car-focused L.A.)

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

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Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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Examples of Abundance in the Arts: Ask A Conductor on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Each year, the Center awards panel-adjudicated project grants in two areas—exhibitions and public interpretation, and performance—as well as 12 fellowships for individual artists.

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Grantmaking Foundations Can Now Register with TechSoup

Tech Soup

From supporting arts and sciences to public health and community investment, foundations have been instrumental grantmakers in public life for decades. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.

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Private Foundations Now Eligible to Receive Microsoft Software Donations!

Tech Soup

Most often, private operating foundations are organizations which operate museums and theater/arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.

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LACMA's Magritte Exhibition: This is not fair use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. And it could be argued that a curator's repsonsibility is to keep his or her museum away from courts of law.). It's really out of our hands.

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