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Article András Szántó on hube: “No Such Thing as a Neutral Space”
November 2025
In conversation with Isabella Miceli from hube magazine, Szántó shares his perspectives, ambitions, and concerns about the evolving role of cultural institutions in a rapidly changing world. Read More call_made
Article Publications “Museums in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”: András Szántó in Conversation with Stéphane Aquin, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Magazine
November 2025
In this conversation with Stéphane Aquin, András Szántó talks about the possible futures he envisages for the museum world in an age when artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming as inextricable from artistic creation as the experience from the artwork.
Architecture & Design Article Publications András Szántó in Conversation with Julian Rose on The Architect’s Newspaper
May 2025
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. Read More call_made
Article Immersive Art Is Exploding, and Museums Have a Choice to Make
August 2024
“When it comes to immersive art, established art museums are stuck between staying on the sidelines of a potentially lucrative market or having to make onerous investments and adjustments in their programming approach,” say co-authors András Szántó and Felix Barber in this Op-Ed for ARTnews, where they discuss the challenges museums face as technologic advances continue to expand in the field. Read More call_made
Architecture & Design Article Publications “Imagining the Future of the Museum” Review at Museums Association Journal
April 2024
Owen Hopkins, the director of the Farrell Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, wrote a review of András Szántó’s 2021 book “Imagining the Future of the Museum” for the Museums Association Journal. “This book offers interesting snapshots of the ideas and influences of one set of protagonists shaping the future of museums” wrote Hopkins. Read More call_made
Article Verbose Magazine
February 2024
Read András Szántó’s interview in Verbose Magazine where he discusses the depth and power required to fully transform and preserve cultural institutions. Read More call_made
Article Publications The View from Up There: a Review of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by András Szántó
February 2024
Robert J Weisberg reviews Andras Szanto’s book: “A 2020 leader-focused book on the future of museums is more than meets the eye”. Read More call_made
Article Tipping Point: How New Immersive Institutions Are Changing the Art World
January 2024
In Chris Michaels’s latest article for The Art Newspaper, he delves into the phenomenon of digital art venues that are attracting massive audiences with radical new forms of immersive experiences. He taps into the minds of industry thought leaders, like strategy consultan Andras Szanto, to dissect whether these digital realms pose a threat or offer an exciting opportunity for traditional galleries and museums. Read More call_made
Article Philanthropic Initiative The Next Urgent-Ism: Museums Must Change Their Ageist Ways
January 2024
Museums in the US and beyond are neglecting members of a rapidly expanding demographic who also historically have been the sector’s biggest donors. Read Andras Szanto’s and Brian’s Kennedy Op Ed in the Arts Newspaper, inspired by their keynote presentation for the Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums 2023 Gathering in Minneapolis. Read More call_made
Architecture & Design Article Capturing the Mindset of a Generation of Museum Architects
October 2023
András Szántó spoke with Hungarian magazine Octogon about what kind of “hardware” the art institutions of the future will need. Read the full interview with the link. Read More call_made
Architecture & Design Article Icon Magazine
August 2023
“Traditional museum buildings are imposing, often built in a sepulchral neoclassicist style that hulks over people below while insisting on a particular Western-centric idea of art and history. There have been some changes since – many a side effect of the commercialisation of museums as competing tourist attractions with an eye on audience numbers – but the old model remains robust even as architects and museum directors have tried to create museums that reflect changing times”, writes Joe Lloyd in his review of “Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects” by András Szántó. Read More call_made
Art Award Article Event Museum Initiative Jeffrey Gibson, Co-Presented by SITE Santa Fe, To Represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia
July 2023
SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, in cooperation with the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has announced that Jeffrey Gibson, will represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia, the 60th International Art Exhibition. We assisted both Jeffrey Gibson Studio and SITE Santa Fe in past planning work, and congratulate them on this landmark endeavor. Read More call_made