Toward a New Phase of U.S.-China Museum Collaborations
The 2012 U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum, organized by Asia Society and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, brought together leaders from 17 Chinese and 15 U.S....
View ArticleMuseums of the Future
Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Alan Chong, the director of the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, were joined onstage by the visual artist Hiroshi Sugimoto...
View ArticleWhat Should a Museum Be in the 21st Century?
Convened for 2013 Arts & Museum Summit, an international array of leading museum professionals—including Melissa Chiu, Alan Chong, Caroline Collier, Glenn D. Lowry, Sophie Makariou, Lars Nittve,...
View ArticleMaking a Museum in the 21st Century
Part 1 Part 2 Part 1 Part I (44 min., 23 sec.) Part 2 Part II (20 min., 11 sec.) Museum leaders Melissa Chiu, Caroline Collier, Glenn Lowry, Lars Nittve, and Wang Chunchen shared global perspectives...
View ArticleThree Words for the 21st Century
Asked to provide three words that best characterize what a museum needs to be in the 21st century, museum directors from around the world offer a range of suggestions such as “dynamic,”...
View ArticleGlenn Lowry’s Keynote Address at the 2013 Arts & Museum Summit
Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, issues a call to his fellow museum leaders to “be subversive,” in his keynote address at Asia Society’s 2013 Arts & Museum...
View ArticleThe Museum in the World
Part 1 Part II Part 1 Part II Hammad Nasar from Asia Art Archive was joined onstage by Janet Carding, the director of the Royal Ontario Museum, Sophie Makariou, the president of the Musée Guimet,...
View ArticleMuseum in the City
Panelists Caroline Collier, director, Tate National, London, Yongwoo Lee, president, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju, and Sabyasachi Mukherjee, director, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vast...
View ArticleHiroshi Sugimoto on Museums of the Future
Visual artist Hiroshi Sugimoto provides an artist’s perspective on the physical spaces and architectural possibilities of museums of the future at the 2013 Arts & Museum Summit.
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Making a Museum in the 21st Century
Making a Museum in the Twenty-first Century contains transcriptions of selected discussions and speeches from the 2013 Arts & Museum Summit held in Hong Kong. These include addresses by Glenn...
View ArticleTom Finkelpearl on the Museum in a Majority-Minority Community
On the release of Asia Society’s publication, Making a Museum in the 21st Century, Tom Finkelpearl, commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, draws on his years as head of the...
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Jay Levenson: Forging Connections with Museums in Asia and Beyond
A s the director of the International Program department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Jay Levenson leads a team that connects the museum to an international network of artists, scholars, and...
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Co-Curating and “Making Space for Divergent Perspectives”
Chelsea Knight, Don’t Tread On Me, 2011. Two-channel video installation, sound, color; 20 min. Courtesy the artist and Aspect/Ratio Projects, Chicago I n 2015, the New Museum presented The Great...
View ArticleToward a Closer Understanding of Our Differences
The U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum is organized by Asia Society’s Transfuze: The Asia Arts & Museum Network and the Center on U.S.-China Relations’ U.S.-China Forum on Arts and Culture. The 2014...
View ArticleFairouz Nishanova: “Music was Never Just Entertainment”
Fairouz Nishanova explains that her mission, as the director of the Aga Khan Music Initiative, is to celebrate cultural differences through music from around the world. Nishanova has served as the...
View ArticlePhloeun Prim on the Revival of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Phloeun Prim discusses the post-genocide preservation of Cambodia’s artistic memory and identity, at the 2015 Arts & Museum Summit. Phloeun Prim is the executive director of Cambodian Living Arts...
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Timothy P. Whalen on Stewardship and Continuity
Timothy P. Whalen discusses contemporary stewardship theory and the conservation of cultural heritage sites, at the 2015 Arts & Museum Summit. Whalen is the third director of the Getty...
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Hammad Nasar: “Excessive Enthusiasms: Building Archives and Fueling Practices”
Hammad Nasar discusses the significance of preserving, building, and sharing digital archives of Asian art at the 2015 Arts & Museum Summit. Hammad Nasar, head of research and programs at Asia Art...
View ArticleBilguun Tushinbold: Promoting Local Understanding of Contemporary Art in...
Bilguun Tushinbold, a board member of the Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association, discusses recent developments in the Mongolian contemporary-art scene and the role of local cultural and...
View ArticleBárbara Navarro on Preserving Cultural Heritage Through Technology
Bárbara Navarro discusses the role of new technologies in making art and culture accessible at the 2015 Arts & Museum Summit. Navarro heads the Public Policy, Strategy, and Operations team at...
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