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Architecture Conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist & András Szántó
February 2023
Art museums are changing rapidly in response to accelerated cultural, political, and technological shifts in our society. A new kind of museum is emerging—more open, democratic, and accessible. This demands a new approach to museum architecture as well. Join the Aspen Art Museum on February 19 for a conversation with Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and New York–based author and cultural strategy consultant András Szántó, whose latest book Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects, surveys the emerging architectural landscape through dialogues with leading figures in the field. Read More call_made

‘A Balance Between Wonder and Humility’: 25 Leading Architects Imagine How Future Museums Will Look in a Post-Starchitecture World
February 2023
“But a museum that runs on new software will need new hardware. Which is why I spent the spring and summer of 2022 talking with architects from around the world.” Read an excerpt from Andras Szanto new book Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues With Architects on Artnet News. Read More call_made

What will museums of the future be like? Three key takeaways from a new book
February 2023
In his 2020 book, The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, the cultural strategist András Szántó spoke to museum directors around the world and discovered that institutions were “turning more democratic, community-focused, equity minded, culturally inclusive, and experiential, among other pivots”. For his latest book, Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects, Szántó spoke with David Chipperfield, Frida Escobedo and David Adjaye, among others, to find out “how the momentous changes of our era” are shaping museum architecture. Below he outlines three key takeaways. Read More call_made

How will museums look and feel in 5, 10 or 50 years’ time?
January 2023
In his latest book, Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects, András Szántó talks to visionary architects worldwide, including some closely linked to Rotterdam and the Netherlands: Winy Maas (MVRDV), Ma Yansong (MAD Architects) and Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ). At an in-person panel on February 2nd, Szántó will talk to these leading practitioners – alongside Wim Pijbes, director of Stichting Droom en Daad – to discuss their recent and forthcoming projects in the Netherlands and their implications for the future of museums globally. Read More call_made

The Museum System Upgrade: A Q&A with András Szántó
January 2023
András Szántó spoke with Adam Rozan for the American Alliance of Museums about his book The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (2020) and its newly released sequel Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects (2022). Read More call_made

New book | Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects
January 2023
What will the art museum look and feel like in five, ten, fifty years? In Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects, András Szántó engages in conversations with visionary architects worldwide about what sort of “hardware” will be required for the art institution of tomorrow. Included are dialogues with: Kunlé Adeyemi, David Adjaye, Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso & Carlos Alberto Maciel, David Chipperfield, Minsuk Cho, Elizabeth Diller Frida Escobedo, Sou Fujimoto, Lina Ghotmeh, Bjarke Ingels, Kabage Karanja & Stella Mutegi, Li Hu & Huang Wenjing, Jing Liu & Florian Idenburg, Yansong Ma, Winy Maas, Roth — Eduardo Neira, Stephan Schütz, Kerstin Thompson, Xu Tiantian, Kulapat Yantrasast, Liam Young. The book is a sequel to The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (2020). Read More call_made

Entrevista a András Szántó amb motiu del llibre The Future of the Museum. 28 Dialogues
September 2022
L’any 2020, en un moment de crisi filosòfica i institucional i de trànsit cap a una nova era, el professor i assessor cultural András Szántó consagrava el seu temps de confinament a explorar el replantejament del futur dels museus. Read More call_made

Untapped Opportunity: Older Americans & the Arts
June 2022
“The corrosive ageism that permeates our culture leads us to see older people as “other,” but it turns out that older and younger adults want the same things from life: we all have a deep desire to have fun, to connect meaningfully with others, to create and to learn.” A milestone in the work between E. Michelson Philathropies and ASLLC, this special report is a collaboration between LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linett Audience Research, which sheds light on older generations’ distinct preferences and behaviors to provide relevant insights for cultural engagement. Read the report here. Read More call_made

A Companion to Arthur C. Danto
April 2022
This new book paints a detailed portrait of one the most significant figures in twentieth-century philosophy and art criticism, offering unparalleled coverage of all aspects of Danto’s writings, artworks, and thought. Edited by two long-time colleagues of Danto, this interdisciplinary resource presents more than 40 original essays from both prominent Danto scholars and leading practitioners from various sub-fields of philosophy, including an essay by his former student, András Szántó.

Excerpt from The Future of the Museum on Lit Hub
June 2021
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. Read More call_made

Feature: András Szántó on the Future of Museums
February 2021
András Szántó spoke with Karen Rosenberg of apropos of his new book, The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, for Artful. Read More call_made

András Szántó and Corinne Erni on The Future of the Museum
February 2021
On February 12, Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, and museum strategist and author András Szántó will come together in a live-stream conversation to discuss his new book, The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues. Read More call_made