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2021 BMW Art Journey Winner Announced
Leave your thoughts <p>Artist Julien Creuzet is the winner of the tenth BMW Art Journey. In a poetic journey that intertwines personal discovery with profound concern for the environment and a generous spirit of sharing, he will center his travels around a geographically and culturally distinct region and his ancestral homeland: the Caribbean. “Creuzet’s journey does not take him to a distant, unknown destination, but rather allows him to return to a familiar place–a place that for him stands for family, youth and education,” said the jury.</p>
Excerpt from The Future of the Museum on Lit Hub
Leave your thoughts <p>Literary Hub has published “A Moment of Reckoning: Thomas P. Campbell and András Szántó on Museums and Public Trust,” an article featuring András Szántó’s interview with Thomas Campbell from The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, published this past winter. In it, Campbell, who works as Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, considers cow institutions can be more inclusive. </p>
Moholy-Nagy Foundation wins D&AD Award
Leave your thoughts <p>The annual D&AD Awards are the most prestigious benchmark for creative excellence in design and advertising. In 2020, the Moholy-Nagy Foundation asked Marina Willer to create a new identity and website to promote the artist’s work and his legacy. The mindset and methods used by Moholy-Nagy directly informed the craft-based approach. Using techniques inspired by the artist’s experimental approach, Marina and her team created a striking and sympathetic identity which perfectly honours Moholy-Nagy’s amazing legacy. </p>
Dates for Unfinished Live Announced
Leave your thoughts <p>Unfinished has announced the dates for Unfinished Live, an in-person and virtual event set to take place at The Shed in New York City from September 23–25, 2021. Exploring the 2021 theme, The Future Is Decentralized, influential leaders will foster conversation and deepen our understanding of a new digital era that prioritizes people over platforms. During the conference, Unfinished will launch Unfinished Camp, a project conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist and András Szántó. This initiative, which includes numerous partner arts institutions, will manifest at the Shed through a series of newly commissioned videos created by an exciting roster of young artists.</p>
2021 BMW Art Journey Shortlist Announced
Leave your thoughts <p>During this year’s Art Basel in Hong Kong, Art Basel and BMW announced the 2021 shortlist for the BMW Art Journey. The artists include French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet, Korean cinematographer Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, and Chinese artist Alice Wang. Launched in 2015, this is the 10th edition of the BMW Art Journey, which sends artists on journeys of creative discovery all over the world. Like a mobile studio, the BMW Art Journey can take artists almost anywhere in the world to develop new ideas and envision new creative projects.</p>
Panel “The Future of the Museum:28 Dialogues” organized by ICOM Israel
Leave your thoughts <p>Listen to a talk on the future of museums in honor of the launch of András Szántó’s book.</p>
ACMI on The Future of Museums
Leave your thoughts <p>As part of the 2021 Melbourne Art Book Fair, András Szántó, Rhana Devenport, Suhanya Raffel, Katrina Sedgwick reflected on the unforeseen events of 2020 and discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the future of museums. </p>
GCDN Conversations: So what have we learned in the last year?
Leave your thoughts <p>The pandemic has hit the cultural sector in different cities in diverse ways, but there is a certain homogeneity in the stated aspirations of the cultural sector as it emerges from the crisis: develop deeper relationships with the immediate community and become an indispensable social hub. Panel | 2021 |</p>
Conversation with Adam Levine and Andras Szanto
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>
Feature: András Szántó on the Future of Museums
Leave your thoughts <p>András Szántó spoke with Karen Rosenberg of apropos of his new book, The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, for Artful. </p>