CIMAM News
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27 April 2022
Voices for Ukraine: The museum as a refuge
Today! Panel discussion organized by MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
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26 April 2022
A New Book Explores How Decades of Activism Resulted in the Power Shifts Upending Today’s Art World—Read an Excerpt Here
"Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" is out now. Written byFarah Nayeri. Originally published by artnet, April 26, 2022.
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22 April 2022
A warm welcome to Reuben Keehan to CIMAM!
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22 April 2022
Art world organisations, galleries and artists helped fund conservation of a Peruvian cloud forest
Happy Earth Day. Let us remember – more than ever – that we need to practice more sustainable habits and behavior that benefits both people and the environment. Read this climate action led by Galleries Commit and Art to Acres, supporting a permanently-protected area in Peru.
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21 April 2022
The War in Ukraine Has Seeped Into Venice’s Glamorous Art Biennale
As the world’s most important art event opens to VIPs, some things can’t be ignored. Written by James Tarmy. Originally published by Bloomberg, 20 April 2022.
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20 April 2022
Museum Watch Governance Management Project
The Museum Watch Governance Management Project is a report convened and led by INTERCOM and CIMAM and produced thanks to an ICOM Special Project Grant to help the museum community address governance management challenges more efficiently.
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14 April 2022
We are pleased to welcome Nadim Samman to CIMAM!
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13 April 2022
"The content of an artist's novel resides largely in the process of creation, rather than in the text that is printed on its pages"
The Book Lovers Collective (Joanna Zielinska & David Maroto) based in Antpern, Beligum, and panelists at CIMAM's online session Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?
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12 April 2022
"RomaMoMA is a contemporary art project initiating a forum for collaborative reflection on a future Roma Museum of Contemporary Art"
Timea Junghaus, Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), on behalf of RomaMoMA, and panelist at CIMAM's online session Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?
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11 April 2022
"A museum is not an agreement or a pile of bricks but energy in motion"
Sofia Dourron, Independent Curator and former director of Museo La Ene, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and panelist at CIMAM's online session Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?
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7 April 2022
We are pleased to welcome Anna Marazuela Kim to CIMAM
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7 April 2022
World Health Day 2022
CIMAM wants to highlight the role of art and museums in raising awareness of the importance of protecting natural resources, respecting and taking into account all communities and social groups, and working together to focus on the sustainable development of our planet to ensure the well-being of all.
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7 April 2022
"We believe that it is crucial to maintain human capital, which in due course, will return to Ukraine"
Piotr Rypson, Adjunct Professor at New Media Department, Polish-Japanese Academy of Computer Technology. Curator at the Jewish Historical Institute, Chair of ICOM Poland, and panelist at CIMAM's online session Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?
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4 April 2022
The Guardian view on museums and communities: shaping the future
The UK’s galleries need not just protect the past. They can be ethical actors in the present. Originally published by The Guardian, 1 April 2022.
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4 April 2022
Unesco under pressure to pull world heritage meeting from Russia
UK culture minister, Auschwitz Memorial and Europa Nostra call for the June event to be relocated following Russian invasion of Ukraine. Written by Gareth Harris. Originally publised by The Art Newspaper, 1 October 2022.
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1 April 2022
Ernestine White-Mifetu, CIMAM Board Member, appointed Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum Appoints Ernestine White-Mifetu, New Curator of African Art. Ernestine White-Mifetu is member of the Board of CIMAM.
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31 March 2022
The Rescue Mission to Save Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage
Museum curators and volunteers in Ukraine are trying to relocate or protect artworks, cultural artifacts and public monuments as the Russian invasion grinds on. Written by Taras Kaidan, Mariana Matveichuk and Feargus O'Sullivan. Originally published by Bloomber CityLab, 26 March 2022.
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30 March 2022
"The contact with art is a source of physical and mental health"
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, and CIMAM Board Member, for the yearbook publication of Tendencias del Mercado del Arte, Spain. Originally published on February 2022.
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28 March 2022
How Poland's museum community is stepping up to support Ukrainian colleagues
Cultural institutions in the neighbouring country are sending emergency aid and housing refugees. Written by Richard Unwin. Originally published by The Art Newspaper, 22 March 2022
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25 March 2022
This Group Is Helping Museum Workers in Ukraine
The founders of Museum Crisis Center discuss what they are doing to help safeguard museum staff and save Ukraine’s cultural heritage. Written by Lisa Korneichuk. Originally published by Hyperallergic, 24 March 2022.
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23 March 2022
Call to Action: Global Climate Strike Solidarity
Join Museum For Future's call to action and take part in a solidarity gesture for the climate on 25 March 2022 - the Global Climate Strike. Take a stand on social media or in-house for our climate by letting your museum objects speak up for their and our future.
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23 March 2022
A warm welcome to Holly Roussell!
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23 March 2022
How Modern and Contemporary Art Museums are Acting to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
CIMAM is conducting a survey to provide an overview of the status and progress of modern and contemporary art museums and cultural institutions towards achieving the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
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21 March 2022
Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?
31 March 2022. CIMAM Rapid Response Webinar. In the times of museums being burned down because of war or put at risk because of climate disaster effects – what is a meaning of a public art collection? Could we imagine a different definition of collecting, an alternative circulation of objects, or an art museum without art objects?