CIMAM News
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28 December 2020
"[There is] the need to change the parameters of art institutions"
Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and panelist at CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinar #7: Re-examining International Exchange: The Future of a Global Art Community.
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25 December 2020
More Than Ever, Art Workers Are Calling Out Their Employers—Anonymously—on Social Media. Can It Make Real-World Change?
This year has been defined by the rise in outspoken commentary on social media about powerful people and arts employers. What happens now?
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23 December 2020
Editorial: You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet
Martin Guinard, Bruno Latour, Ping Lin, and e-flux journal editors.
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22 December 2020
"Immediately following the crisis came the budget cuts for culture"
Zoran Erić, PhD, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia, CIMAM member and panelist at CIMAM Rapid Response Webinar #5: IN BETWEEN: How are Contemporary Art Museums and their Stakeholders Dealing with a Fluid Situation?
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22 December 2020
We share the answer of the Mexican Secretary of Culture to our letter "An ecosystem in danger: the Mexican museums."
Follow CIMAM's latest Museum Watch case regarding Mexican cultural institutions.
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21 December 2020
Thank You and Happy New Year!
Seasons Greetings from Mami Kataoka, President of CIMAM and Director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. December 2020.
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16 December 2020
Our community continues to grow! A warm welcome to Stefanie Hessler to CIMAM
Join CIMAM, the most renowned international network of modern and contemporary art museum experts in the field.
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15 December 2020
A new kind of museum is emerging—here's what the future holds
International museum leaders are confronting manifold challenges in the wake of Covid-19 and innovating in six principal ways, writes András Szántó, The Art Newspaper.
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14 December 2020
Whitechapel Gallery is recruiting a Director of Education and Public Programmes
Closes: 3 January 2021. The Daskalopoulos Director of Education & Public Programmes shapes education and interpretation policies, public programmes and the overall direction of the Whitechapel Gallery.
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11 December 2020
The letter from CIMAM to the Mexican Secretary of Culture
Follow the details regarding CIMAM's latest Museum Watch case. CIMAM has asked the Mexican government to take immediate action to rectify the devastating cuts that will lead to the destruction of these important cultural institutions.
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11 December 2020
Queens Museum
Read this and other submitted nominations to the CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practice in Time of Global Crisis initiative and submit your inspiring project to help others through this crisis.
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10 December 2020
An ecosystem in danger: the Mexican museums
The Mexican government has started to dismantle the revered public institutions that have been developed over many generations. CIMAM is deeply concerned that the actions of the current government in Mexico will lead to the destruction of these important cultural institutions.
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9 December 2020
"What do international productions mean in a non-traveling era without international crowds?"
Haegue Yang, South Korean artist, based in Berlin and Seoul, and panelist at CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinar #7: Re-examining International Exchange: The Future of a Global Art Community.
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3 December 2020
A Governance Question in South-Africa
With growing concern, the Museum Watch Committee has followed the case of our colleague Ernestine White-Mifetu, director of the William Humphreys Art Gallery (WHAG) in Kimberley, now suspended from her functions in the museum.
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2 December 2020
"How can we ensure that our professionals' younger generation continues to stay committed to this idea of an international global art community?"
Eugene Tan, CIMAM Board Member, Director of National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum., and moderator at CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinar #7: Re-examining International Exchange: The Future of a Global Art Community.
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1 December 2020
“There are Sami curators, but we need more, and the field needs to be developed”
Interview with Susanne Hætta, author, artist and photographer, Vadsø, and CIMAM 2020 StayHome Curatorial Online Residency grantee for Dáiddadállu.
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1 December 2020
Kunsthalle Bern is seeking a new Director
Closes: 31 January 2021. Kunsthalle Bern is an internationally-renowned venue for encountering contemporary art.
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30 November 2020
"I am currently building Rafiki Art Initiatives (RAI) organizational structure, skills, and programming"
Nicole Rafiki, artist, curator, Oslo, Norway. Grantee 2020 for CIMAM's StayHome Online Residence in collaboration with OCA - Norway.
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27 November 2020
"The question of success is not the volume of numbers but the quality of the interaction you can have with your audiences"
Ivet Curlin/WHW Collective, Vienna, and panelist at CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinar #6: How Should Museums be Defining 'Success’ in a Time of COVID?
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26 November 2020
Lofoten International Art Festival seeks curator(s) for LIAF 2022
Lofoten International Art Festival-LIAF is a biennial for contemporary art that takes place in the Lofoten Islands. LIAF considers all of Northern Norway as its home region.
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24 November 2020
ICOM Follow-up report: Museums, Museum professionals and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is still seriously affecting cultural institutions around the world. While some museums have reopened with major limitations, others institutions are still facing the consequences of the health crisis behind closed doors.
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24 November 2020
Sudden Beams - Call for proposals from Curators
Closes: 2 December 2021. Call for curatorial ideas for projects with South Asian artists working in sound and digital media
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19 November 2020
Why should museums remain open and operational?
Continuing towards our goal to connect with and support our members in these trying times, the Museum Watch Committee would like to raise the following questions to identify arguments as to why museums should remain open and operational.
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19 November 2020
"We have to generate a new notion of success – or even forget about this word"
Ferran Barenblit, Director, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, and panelists at CIMAM's Rapid Response Webinar #6: How Should Museums be Defining 'Success’ in a Time of COVID?