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How Museums Have Evolved
Leave your thoughts <p>In a CNN Travel video, cultural strategy advisor András Szántó explores the evolving role of museums in a changing world. From rethinking institutional missions to responding to new audiences and cultural perspectives, the conversation considers how museums are adapting to contemporary challenges and redefining their place in society.</p>
Immersive Art Is Exploding, and Museums Have a Choice to Make
Leave your thoughts <p>In an opinion piece for ARTnews, András Szántó and Felix Barber examine the rise of immersive art experiences and their implications for museums, exploring how these attractions are changing the relationship between audiences, art, and cultural institutions.</p>
Future Blues: On András Szántó’s latest book
Leave your thoughts <p>In a recent review for Új Művészet, Patrick Tayler examines András Szántó’s latest book, The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues, exploring the forces reshaping the art world and the challenges facing its institutions. The review highlights the book’s range of competing visions for the future, from the impact of AI and hybrid digital experiences to shifting models for museums, galleries, and art fairs, and Szántó’s ability to map these tensions through conversations with diverse voices across the field.</p>
SU 560 Public Art Initiative
Leave your thoughts <p>Southwestern University announced SU 560, a visionary 560-acre district in Georgetown, Texas, for which András Szántó serves on the Public Art Council. The initiative will commission a landmark public artwork designed to become a defining symbol of the new district, exploring the role of art in building community, inspiring curiosity, and creating enduring places of meaning. Working alongside curator Miki Garcia and fellow council members, Szántó will help shape the vision for a project that places art at the center of a new model for community development and engagement.</p>
Art Worlds: Venice Special Podcast
Leave your thoughts <p>In Episode 49 of Art Worlds: Venice Special, András Szántó joins Dr. Cleo Roberts-Komireddi for a conversation on the future of museums and the forces shaping cultural institutions worldwide. Drawing on his work as a cultural strategist and advisor to museums, foundations, universities, and corporations, Szántó reflects on global trends affecting the art sector, the evolving role of museums in the twenty-first century, and emerging research on health and wellbeing that may influence institutional priorities in the years ahead.</p>
Rethinking the Future of Museums
Leave your thoughts <p>As part of an ongoing collaboration with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), András Szántó contributed to the museum’s public program accompanying its long-term transformation and expansion. Following his keynote lecture, Imagining the Future of Museums, Szántó’s ideas on the evolving role of museums—as more people-centered, participatory, and socially engaged institutions—were featured in Metròpolis Barcelona, highlighting the broader conversation surrounding the future of cultural institutions in Barcelona and beyond.</p>
Dataland: A New Museum of AI Art Opens in Los Angeles
Leave your thoughts <p>June 2026 saw the opening of Dataland, Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkilic’s new museum of AI art in Los Angeles. The first-of-its kind institution, several years in development, features multisensory productions from Refik Anadol Studio and adds to Los Angeles’s cultural ecosystem, taking its place next to The Broad, MOCA, Disney Hall, and City Center. András Szántó LLC assistant in the conceptualization and development of Dataland over a two year period. During the June 13 inauguration event for Dataland András Szántó conducted a moderated conversation with the founders, with some 250 local cultural leaders and Dataland supporters and collaborators in attendance.</p>
András Szántó Appointed AEFI Advisor
Leave your thoughts <p>The Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI), a program of the Aspen Institute, has appointed András Szántó as an Advisor as part of a new cohort of thought and practice leaders supporting the organization’s 2026–2030 strategic plan. AEFI Advisors contribute to the development of the initiative’s research, publications, educational programs, leadership convenings, and collegial networks focused on advancing the stewardship and philanthropic impact of Artist-Endowed Foundations.</p>
Edgar Allen Beem – András Szántó: The Future of the Art World
Leave your thoughts <p>In the Maine Arts Journal, art critic Edgar Allen Beem reviews The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues, describing András Szántó’s latest book as a wide-ranging exploration of the forces reshaping the global art ecosystem. Reflecting on conversations with artists, museum directors, curators, collectors, and other cultural leaders, Beem highlights the book’s examination of AI, globalization, the future of museums, galleries, and art markets, as well as Szántó’s perspective on the resilience of art in times of profound change.</p>
Berlin Art Weekend Talk: The Future of Art at Neue Nationalgalerie
Leave your thoughts <p>In a time of accelerating change – fueled by ongoing geopolitical and economic crises, shifting discourses and audience expectations, strained cultural funding systems and the implementation of artificial intelligence to name but a few parameters – arts institutions and markets are looking to adapt to new realities. But how? Drawing on András Szántó’s book, The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues, this panel discussion will launch Gallery Weekend and explore an art world in flux, posing new challenges for its institutions as they chart a path to the future. Panelists: Marion Ackermann, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz; Grace Yao, Founder and CEO of ARTLAS; and Thomas Girst, Global Head of BMW Group Cultural Engagement, in conversation with András Szántó.</p>