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Art Basel Conversations | Institutions: A Time of Crisis – and Opportunity?
Leave your thoughts <p>Iwona Blazwick, OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London Christine Macel, Chief Curator, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Lars Nittve, Director, The Moderna Museet, Stockholm Nicolaus Schafhausen, Director, Witte de With, Rotterdam Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Moderator | Andras Szanto, Author, consultant for arts and philanthropic organizations, New York</p>
Conversation with William Kentridge (Part 2)
Leave your thoughts <p>Museum Talk at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2011</p>
Conversation with William Kentridge (Part 1)
Leave your thoughts <p>Museum Talk at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2011</p>
Conversation with William Kentridge (Part 3)
Leave your thoughts <p>Museum Talk at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2011</p>
Sixty Museums in Search of a Purpose
Leave your thoughts <p>Composing a mission statement isn’t as easy as it sounds. Should a mission describe what a museum is doing, or what it should be doing? An analysis of the mission statements of leading US art museums yields some surprising results. | The Art Newspaper | 2011 |</p>
Art Basel Conversations | How Will Museums Be Able to Collect?
Leave your thoughts <p>Chris Dercon, Director, Tate Modern, London Martin Roth, Director General, Dresden State Art Collections/Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Incoming Director, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Moderator | András Szántó, Author and consultant to arts and philanthropic organizations, New York</p>
China’s New Age of Enlightenment
Leave your thoughts <p>Occupying almost 30,000 sq. ft in galleries devoted to international culture in the newly renovated building, which opened last month, “The Art of the Enlightenment”, on view for a whole year, is notable not only for its theme, but for the circumstances of its organization. It is a product of cultural diplomacy writ large. | The Art Newspaper | 2011 |</p>
Art Basel Conversations | Museums in the Digital Age
Leave your thoughts <p>Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Lauren Cornell, Executive Director, Rhizome and Adjunct Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Peter Reed, Senior Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Moderator | András Szántó, Author and consultant to arts and philanthropic organizations, New York</p>
The Museum Revised
Leave your thoughts <p>For this issue, Artforum invited artists, curators, and museum experts to write about The Museum Revisited; trends, challenges, and opportunities. András Szántó was among the writers.</p>
Will US Museums Succeed in Reinventing Themselves?
Leave your thoughts <p>The recession forced North American institutions to reconsider every aspect of what they do. You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s hyperactive chief of staff like to say. By that measure, art museums may have been handed a historic opportunity | The Art Newspaper | 2010 | </p>