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Conversation with Adam Levine and Andras Szanto

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>Andras Szanto’s book, The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, surveys the emerging landscape of museum practices through conversations with museum directors in fourteen countries on six continents, including Adam Levine, the Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. The picture that emerges is a museum field in transition as museums reassess their ties with audiences and communities, retool their physical and organizational structures, reckon with deep-seated cultural and political currents, and adapt to accelerating technological change. But what does this all mean for the Toledo Museum of Art and how can the TMA contribute to the evolution museums?</p>

The Brooklyn Museum Virtual Roundtable: The Future of the Museum Dialogues

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>How do museums fit into the calls for social change that echo around the globe today? Learn about some exciting approaches to inventing and reinventing the museum with two back-to-back conversations in conjunction with the U.S. publication of museum strategist András Szántó’s book The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues. Szántó will be in conversation with Sandra Jackson-Dumont, director of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles andMarie-Cécile Zinsou, President and Founder of Benin’s Zinsou Foundation. Then, get an inside look into how museums are reshaping their institutions as Anne Pasternak speaks with Victoria Noorthoorn of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and Franklin Sirmans of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.</p>

Digital Museums and Virtual Audiences

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>Where will the game-changing technologies for art come from? Departing from a note of healthy skepticism, the conversation sought to clarify what is truly new and what digital innovation holds in store for the artworld of tomorrow. Conversations | Art Basel, Miami Beach, 2017</p>

Art Newspaper Podcast: Is the future of museums in Africa?

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>In this episode of the Art Newspaper podcast, The Week in Art, host Ben Luke looks at museums and Africa, exploring the future of museums and African institutions’ central role in in, as well as the 19th-century looting of the Benin Bronzes and what it tells us about museums and colonialism, then and now. Speakers include Sonia Lawson, the founding director of the Palais de Lomé in Togo, and András Szántó, on the occasion of his new book The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues.</p>

A new kind of museum is emerging—here’s what the future holds

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>Expanding upon the conversations in his new book about what the future holds for museums, in this article in The Art Newspaper, András Szántó surveys how museum leaders are shifting approaches and drawing conclusions from a difficult 2020. “2020 cemented the embrace of an expanded museum mission, already reflected in the International Council of Museums’s inconclusive attempt last year to come up with a new definition of the museum, one that goes beyond the custodianship of objects to position it as an institution committed to serving communities and addressing social needs. For today’s museum leaders, these two imperatives are not contradictory but complementary—and by all accounts, the Covid experience has deepened the sentiment.”</p>

How does science end up in a museum of contemporary art?

Published by Leave your thoughts <p>On the occasion of the exhibition BARABÁSILAB: Hidden Patterns. The Language of Network Thinking at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, this virtual event features Media an unusual exhibition tour, dissecting the connection between art and science with Albert-László Barabási, András Szántó, and museum director, theoretician and media artist, Peter Weibel.</p>