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Soft Labor Questionnaire

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>Soft Labor—the namesake publication of Sarah Hromack-Chan’s strategic consultancy for organizations, designers, and the culture industry—is a space for reflecting on creative labor: what it is, what it looks like, and how it continues to evolve. In its recurring feature, The Soft Labor Questionnaire, the publication invites colleagues and peers to share insights about their own working experiences in the cultural field. This month’s respondent is András Szántó, who advises museums, foundations, educational institutions, and corporations on cultural strategy and program development around the world.</p>

Art Basel Conversations: Building the Future of the Art World, moderated by András Szántó

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>With market downturns, institutional strain, climate change, political pressures, and demographic shifts reshaping the landscape, how should the art world evolve? Drawing on voices featured in András Szántó’s latest book, The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues, this panel gathers Larissa Buchholz, Pablo León de la Barra, and Mia Locks for an open conversation on the state – and prospects – of the art industry writ large. Moving beyond problem-diagnosing, the discussion will focus on bold proposals, practical strategies, and opportunities for reinvention. Introduced by Noah Horowitz, and moderated by András Szántó.</p>

The Future of the Art World di András Szántó

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>In this interview with Giuseppe Simone Modeo for Collezione da Tiffany, conducted on the occasion of the launch of his new book The Future of the Art World, András Szántó discusses how collectors can assess emerging artists, the evolving frameworks for acquiring AI-based artworks, and how foundations and institutions can remain mission-driven within an ever-changing cultural ecosystem.</p>

András Szántó Interviewed by The Architect’s Newspaper About Museum Architecture Competitions

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>The rise of museum consultants is a result of cultural institution projects becoming more nuanced, argues András Szántó, author of the 2023 book Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects and a cultural strategist in Diana Budds’s article: “A look at how architecture competitions are helping museums and cultural institutions approach their capital projects”.</p>

Book presentation at Museo Kaluz

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>On Monday, November 10, 2025, Museo Kaluz in Mexico City will host a special presentation of The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues, the latest book by András Szántó. The Future of the Art World continues Szántó’s series of conversations with leading museum directors and cultural innovators from around the globe. In this new volume, he explores how art institutions are redefining their missions and navigating transformation in an era of social, political, and environmental change.</p>

Want To Know the Future of the Art World? This Book Has You Covered

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>In a recent review, Sarah Douglas for ARTnews highlights András Szántó’s The Future of the Art World as a sweeping exploration of the cultural ecosystem through 38 dialogues with artists, curators, collectors, technologists, and other leading voices. Published by Hatje Cantz, the book extends the inquiry begun with The Future of the Museum (2020) and Imagining the Future Museum (2022), tracing how art and its institutions are adapting to new technologies, values, and global dynamics. The ARTnews piece praises the book’s ability to reveal a field in transformation—one that remains, in Szántó’s words, “endlessly inventive, self-reflective, and globally entangled.”</p>

New Release: The Future of the Art World

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>András Szántó’s new book, The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues, is now out. Building on his acclaimed conversations with museum directors and architects, this volume turns to the wider cultural ecosystem—artists, curators, collectors, technologists, and beyond—to explore how the art world is evolving in an era of rapid change.Through 38 dialogues with leading voices, the book offers a panoramic view of the challenges and opportunities shaping culture today—from digital transformation and new geographies to shifting values and global interconnectedness.</p>

2025 Rabkin Prize Winners Announced

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, where András Szántó serves as Advisor, has announced the eight recipients of the 2025 Rabkin Prize, which celebrates the creative and intellectual contributions of today’s arts writers with an unrestricted $50,000 award. This year’s winners are Tempestt Hazel, co-founder of Sixty Inches from Center; Jessica Lynne, writer, critic and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK; Nicole Martinez, critic and deputy director of Fountainhead Arts; Brandy McDonnell, features writer for The Oklahoman; America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), writer and publishing editor of First American Art Magazine; Eva Recinos, an arts and culture journalist; Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation), author, essayist, and curator; and J Wortham, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.</p>

András Szántó at the Museum of Art And Photography (MAP) Bangalore

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>On September 10-11, Andras Szanto, a member of the US Board of the Museum of Art And Photography (MAP) Bangalore, moderated a workshop with senior museum leaders from India and the Southeast Asia region. Participants included Keri Ryan (Associate Director, Learning and Interpretation, M+), Lourdes A Samson (Deputy Director, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila), Meera Curam (Director, Hampi Art Labs), Priyanka Mary Francis (Director, NGMA, Bangalore), Roobina Karode (Director and Chief Curator, KNMA, Delhi), Ruchira Das (Artistic Director, Arthshila), Sharmini Pereira (ChiefCurator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Colombo), Stephanie Rosenthal (Project Director, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi), Dr. Alkindi Aljawabra (Director, Car Museum, Doha), Hari Marar (CEO, BIAL), and the Senior Team at MAP. At a time of accelerated change for museums, and as museum activity is scaling up across the region, the discussion examined the unique challenges and opportunities of arts institutions — particularly private museums — in India and the surrounding region. </p>

András Szántó in Conversation with Julian Rose on The Architect’s Newspaper

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>Julian Rose’s Building Culture, published last year by Princeton Architectural Press, contains 16 in-depth interviews with leading architects who have designed museums around the world. In 2022, András Szántó’s Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects, published by Hatje Cantz, offered a complementary glimpse into the sensibilities of a new generation of voices. (The titles share four interviewees: David Adjaye, David Chipperfield, Elizabeth Diller, and Kulapat Yantrasat.) Rose and Szántó sat down with AN’s executive editor Jack Murphy to discuss the museum’s inexhaustible spatial variety and its capacity to shape civic and cultural space today.</p>