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Art Award Museum Initiative SU 560 Public Art Initiative
July 2026
Southwestern University announced SU 560, a visionary 560-acre district in Georgetown, Texas, for which András Szántó serves on the Public Art Council. The initiative will commission a landmark public artwork designed to become a defining symbol of the new district, exploring the role of art in building community, inspiring curiosity, and creating enduring places of meaning. Working alongside curator Miki Garcia and fellow council members, Szántó will help shape the vision for a project that places art at the center of a new model for community development and engagement. Read More call_made
Event Museum Initiative Publications Rethinking the Future of Museums
July 2026
As part of an ongoing collaboration with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), András Szántó contributed to the museum’s public program accompanying its long-term transformation and expansion. Following his keynote lecture, Imagining the Future of Museums, Szántó’s ideas on the evolving role of museums—as more people-centered, participatory, and socially engaged institutions—were featured in Metròpolis Barcelona, highlighting the broader conversation surrounding the future of cultural institutions in Barcelona and beyond. Read More call_made
Event Museum Initiative Dataland: A New Museum of AI Art Opens in Los Angeles
June 2026
June 2026 saw the opening of Dataland, Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkilic’s new museum of AI art in Los Angeles. The first-of-its kind institution, several years in development, features multisensory productions from Refik Anadol Studio and adds to Los Angeles’s cultural ecosystem, taking its place next to The Broad, MOCA, Disney Hall, and City Center. András Szántó LLC assistant in the conceptualization and development of Dataland over a two year period. During the June 13 inauguration event for Dataland András Szántó conducted a moderated conversation with the founders, with some 250 local cultural leaders and Dataland supporters and collaborators in attendance. Read More call_made
Museum Initiative András Szántó Appointed AEFI Advisor
June 2026
The Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI), a program of the Aspen Institute, has appointed András Szántó as an Advisor as part of a new cohort of thought and practice leaders supporting the organization’s 2026–2030 strategic plan. AEFI Advisors contribute to the development of the initiative’s research, publications, educational programs, leadership convenings, and collegial networks focused on advancing the stewardship and philanthropic impact of Artist-Endowed Foundations. Read More call_made
Event Museum Initiative Talks Popular Memory and Cultural Institutions
March 2026
In Ingrid Guardiola’s recent essay for ARA, she reflects on the evolving role of museums as sites where collective memory and cultural identity are actively constructed and contested. Drawing on a talk delivered by cultural strategy advisor András Szántó at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), he discusses how museums have undergone more transformation in the past two decades than in the previous century, shifting from object-centered institutions toward people-centered spaces focused on experience, knowledge, and social connection. Read More call_made
Event Museum Initiative Publications MNAC: “Imagining the Future of Museums”
February 2026
The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) hosted András Szántó’s keynote lecture Imagining the Future of Museums as part of its public program accompanying the museum’s transformation and expansion. The talk explored the evolving role of museums as more people-centered, participatory, and socially engaged institutions. The full recording is now available online. Read More call_made
Museum Initiative András Szántó LLC completes strategic plan for Clyfford Still Museum
December 2025
We completed a strategic plan for the Denver-based Clyfford Still Museum. The result of one of the most extraordinary acts of generosity by an artist, which saw Still’s almost complete oeuvre donated to a city that would erect a museum for it, the museum will focus its next five years on broadening its reach, advancing scholarship, and strengthening operations. The plan developed new positioning statements for the museum and, through deliberations with staff, board, internal and external stakeholders, mapped out an ambitious next chapter of the museum as an important part of Denver’s vibrant cultural ecology. Among the highlights: the completion of a catalogue raisonné and the containing growth of The Clyfford Still Institute.
Museum Initiative András Szántó LLC completes strategic plan for MIT Museum
December 2025
Through 2026 we worked with the MIT Museum to develop the museum’s new five year strategic plan, which recently launched with a publication titled Becoming MIT’s Public Lab, the culmination of intense collaborative work with the museum’s staff, advisory board, members of its community advisory circle, and colleagues inside and outside MIT. The fulcrum of the plan is the realization of the museum’s vision as MIT’s Public Lab through a unified thematic approach to exhibitions and public programming. The first series, focusing on TIME, kicked off in the fall of 2026.
Event Museum Initiative Talks Artificial Museum? Exploring the Ethical and Creative Future of Museums with AI
November 2025
In collaboration with ICOM Mexico and Museo Tamayo, the event brought together professionals from museums, cultural institutions, technology and academia. Over two days of lectures, dialogues and case studies, participants examined how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping museum management, preservation, mediation, education and communication. The opening day featured presentations by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Javier Pantoja, Horacio Lecona and András Szántó, who explored connections between art, innovation and contemporary thought. Sessions analyzed the creative possibilities of AI and the ethical implications of its integration into cultural institutions.
Event Museum Initiative Talks Second Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable Participants Announced
April 2025
The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts has announced the 2025 participants of the Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable (MTR). Fourteen international museum directors will join five art museum directors from the Bay Area to participate in a weeklong series of closed-door meetings and discussions focusing on museum leadership and in particular how museum can engage with emerging technological innovations. ASLLC co-developed the program with FAMSF, and Andras Szanto will moderate the MTR as its consulting director. A public session is planned on Tuesday, May 13, on the theme of “Future Proofing the Museum,” to include a public conversation with AI artist Refik Anadol. Read More call_made
Architecture & Design Museum Initiative Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Architects Selected
April 2025
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City announced the winner of its architectural competition for its upcoming expansion. Weiss/Manfredi has been selected to design a complex series of interventions aiming to create a more open, accessible, and welcoming museum — a “Nelson for All.” ASLLC undertook a year-long process of listening, analysis, retreats and workshops to help lay the conceptual underpinnings of the project. We collaborated with Cooper Robertson in the spacial planning phase, paving the way for the competition led by Malcolm Reading. Read More call_made
Museum Initiative Talks András Szántó at the MIT Museum
January 2025
On February 6 at 2 PM, join András Szántó and Michael John Gorman, Director of the MIT Museum, in a conversation about how visual-arts institutions are working to assert their relevance in the 21st century through new approaches to exhibitions, programming, audience engagement, organizational innovation, and architecture and design. The event is free with museum admission. Read More call_made