Our hearts are still overfilled with all the great encounters we have made during CTA Lausanne, and our minds still bubbling with exciting and challenging thoughts from those exchanges.

Our Communicating the Arts conference is just around the corner ! The program is rich and there is definitely something for everyone and anyone wishing to get their professional development fix. Here are five things you will learn at CTA Lausanne this year :

Many of you see Communicating the Arts as your annual professional development bootcamp and we are extremely proud of this as we strive to bring the best speakers and most relevant themes to the stage for every edition.

An interview with Rob Baker, Director of Marketing and Creative Strategy at MoMA

The theme of this year’s edition of our Communicating the Art conference is The Art of Placemaking. Alongside our delegates and with the help of our wonderful speakers, we will explore this theme through a series of more than 28 interactive case studies, 8 keynotes and 4 panel discussions.

As we briefly mentioned in our previous newsletter – and as you may have read in the news – the Louvre is about to get its first female director for the first time since its opening in 1793.

At a time of increasing social isolation and inequality, cities need democratic, thriving communal spaces more than ever.

Our heart was beating at the announcement of Laurence des Cars’ appointment as President of the Louvre museum on Tuesday. After being Orsay’s driving force for 4 years, her ambition is to change the Louvre into a "fully contemporary museum open up to the world of today while telling us about the past, giving relevance to the present through the brilliance of the past.

We, at Communicating the arts, have been working to wrap our heads around which cultural organisations have re-opened and where. We have readers (that’s you !) all over the world and stay relevant to the reality of what you are experiencing is paramount to us.