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Corporate Art Initiative Talks Art Basel Conversations | Building the future of the art world
December 2025
On December 5, during Art Basel in Miami, András Szántó acted as moderator for Art Basel Conversation “Building the future of the art world”, addressing market downturns, institutional strain, climate change, political pressures, and demographic shifts reshaping the landscape. Featuring speakers Dr. Larissa Buchholz, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Pablo León de la Barra, Curator, Guggenheim, New York , and Mia Locks, Executive Director, Museums Moving Forward, Los Angeles. Read More call_made
Publications Talks Futurespaces Session “About the Book: Inside The Future of the Art World with András Szántó”
December 2025
Join us for this Futurespaces session — a special conversation with András Szántó, as he takes us inside the final volume of his newly completed trilogy on the future of art museums: The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues. Building on The Future of the Museum (2020) and Imagining the Future Museum (2022), this concluding book turns outward, examining the cultural, technological, organizational, and market forces shaping the art ecosystem in which museums now operate. In this 30-minute, no-slides talk, Szántó will reflect on what the trilogy reveals when taken as a whole: how museums are reimagining their missions, what futures are opening for cultural institutions, and how the art world’s shifting conditions are reshaping the possibilities ahead. Read More call_made
Event Talks Art Basel Conversations: Building the Future of the Art World, moderated by András Szántó
November 2025
With market downturns, institutional strain, climate change, political pressures, and demographic shifts reshaping the landscape, how should the art world evolve? Drawing on voices featured in András Szántó’s latest book, The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues, this panel gathers Larissa Buchholz, Pablo León de la Barra, and Mia Locks for an open conversation on the state – and prospects – of the art industry writ large. Moving beyond problem-diagnosing, the discussion will focus on bold proposals, practical strategies, and opportunities for reinvention. Introduced by Noah Horowitz, and moderated by András Szántó. The conversation will take place on Friday, December 5 at 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, followed by a book signing at the Art Basel Shop Read More call_made
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.
Talks András Szántó at the Museum of Art And Photography (MAP) Bangalore
September 2025
On September 10-11, Andras Szanto, a member of the US Board of the Museum of Art And Photography (MAP) Bangalore, moderated a workshop with senior museum leaders from India and the Southeast Asia region. Participants included Keri Ryan (Associate Director, Learning and Interpretation, M+), Lourdes A Samson (Deputy Director, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila), Meera Curam (Director, Hampi Art Labs), Priyanka Mary Francis (Director, NGMA, Bangalore), Roobina Karode (Director and Chief Curator, KNMA, Delhi), Ruchira Das (Artistic Director, Arthshila), Sharmini Pereira (ChiefCurator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Colombo), Stephanie Rosenthal (Project Director, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi), Dr. Alkindi Aljawabra (Director, Car Museum, Doha), Hari Marar (CEO, BIAL), and the Senior Team at MAP. At a time of accelerated change for museums, and as museum activity is scaling up across the region, the discussion examined the unique challenges and opportunities of arts institutions — particularly private museums — in India and the surrounding region. Read More call_made
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
Event Talks András Szántó As Moderator at Acciona Cultura’s NEXT IN Summit
April 2025
András Szántó moderated four sessions at the NEXT IN Summit 2025, hosted by Acciona Cultura in Madrid, April 23–24. The two-day forum convened leading cultural figures from around the world to exchange insights, showcase pioneering initiatives, and explore how public spaces can shape and enhance visitor experiences. The conversations with influential voices from museums, design, and architecture explored recent innovations at the intersection of culture, technology, and public engagement. Read More call_made
Event Talks András Szántó as Speaker on “The Future of the Museum, Part Two” at the School of Visual Arts
February 2025
For the second panel in this special in-person series of discussions, cultural strategist András Szántó, author of The Future of the Museum, Sara Reisman, Chief Curator and Director of National Academician Affairs at the National Academy of Design and MA Curatorial Practice faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and Ruba Katrib, Chief Curator at MoMA PS1, consider new models for museums, touching on politics, ecology, economic inequity, inclusion, ethical funding, curating, and more. Moderated by Işın Önol, Director of Curatorial Research of the MA Curatorial Practice program. The panel will take place on Wednesday, February 19, from 6:30 – 8pm ET, in-person at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and via Zoom. 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
Talks András Szántó on “How Do Museums Succeed in the 21st Century?” at House of Robb during Miami Art Week
December 2024
András Szántó participated in a talk with Madeleine Grynsztejn (MCA Chicago) and Christopher Bedford (SFMOMA) about recent and future challenges art museums contend with, organized by Robb Report. A follow-up article summarized the discussion: “Over the past several years, museums have been at the center of many inflection points, whether it’s the pandemic, efforts to advance diversity and inclusion, or the recent war in Gaza. They’ve dealt both internally and externally with those topics, and have served as locations for both protest and resistance.” Read More call_made
Event Talks Video & Audio András Szántó in Conversation with Laurence des Cars and Souleymane Bachir Diagne at Reid Hall in Paris
November 2024
To mark the 60th anniversary of Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris, András Szántó moderated a discussion with Louvre President Laurence des Cars and Columbia University philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne on November, 27, 2024, on the future of museums in general and universal museums in particular. The discussion opened up hopeful spaces of opportunity for the museum, notably by suggesting that there can be a more lateral, less zero-sum approach to universalism, based upon complementarity and reciprocal exchange between cultures across the globe. Read More call_made
Architecture & Design Event Talks András Szántó As Speaker on “Cultural Transformations: Rethinking Spaces & Places for Art” Panel at the Goethe-Institut New York
October 2024
András Szántó participated in a panel discussion on adaptive reuse for cultural institutions at the Goethe-Institut New York on October 10. Moderated by The Architect’s Newspaper Executive Editor Jack Murphy, speakers included Jhaelen Eli-Hernandez (VP Capital Projects. The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Jeanne Gang (Founding Principal and Partner, Studio Gang), Stephan Schütz (Managing Partner, gmp Architects). The standing-room-only discussion reflected the urgency architects of all kinds, and particularly those tasked with building cultural institutions, feel about the fast approaching climate crisis. Such institutions, museums among them, need to embrace adaptive reuse much more systematically. The most significant impact institutions can have, however, is to shape public perceptions about our climate future. Photo: Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg Read More call_made