CIMAM News
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18 December 2019
Sydney 2019: Report, Photos and Videos Online!
Watch the speaker presentations, download photos and read the reports of travel grantees among other conference details.
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11 December 2019
AICA-Turkey dialogues with CIMAM
Interviews with Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Mami Kataoka and Frances Morris
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4 December 2019
Thorny questions prick complacency as conference tackles museum practice
"I believe even more strongly that museums, especially those that engage with contemporary artists, have a vital role in public discourse"
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17 November 2019
Mami Kataoka, new President of CIMAM 2020–2022
CIMAM celebrates the success of its 2019 Annual Conference and the appointment of its new President and Board for the period 2020–2022
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7 November 2019
MIT List Visual Arts Center seeks a curator of contemporary art
Closes: November 15 2019. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is interested in hiring a creative and innovative curator who values adventurous museum programming that reflects the spirit of academic research.
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7 November 2019
Beatrix Ruf, CIMAM member and former Director of the Stedelijk Museum, joins Garage in Moscow
Anton Belov, director of Garage, and also a member of CIMAM, said that Beatrix will “contribute her vision to the exhibition program, planning, education, and partnership projects at Garage.”
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14 October 2019
Vote online! CIMAM Board elections
The online vote is now open. CIMAM Members are called to vote to their representatives for the upcoming triennial 2020–2022.
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11 October 2019
Deborah Marrow, longtime Getty Foundation director and arts funder, dies
CIMAM mourns the death of Deborah Marrow who made it possible for CIMAM to support the attendance of over 200 contemporary art museum professionals from underrepresented countries around the globe to the CIMAM Annual Conferences since 2005.
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10 October 2019
CIMAM questions the decision of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs to withhold the funding granted to the Aichi Triennale 2019
CIMAM is hopeful that the decision to withhold funding is a result of a misunderstanding between the parties involved and calls on the Agency for Cultural Affairs to restore its grant to the Aichi Triennial 2019.
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1 October 2019
Tickets are sold out!
Registration to the CIMAM 2019 Annual Conference and post-conference tour closed 30 September.
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20 September 2019
Mami Kataoka to become Director of Mori Art Museum
Mami Kataoka to become Director of Mori Art Museum when the current Director, Fumio Nanjo, retires as of the end of December 2019.
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18 September 2019
Why the Art World Must Back Greta Thunberg’s Global Climate Strike
Demonstrations to declare a climate emergency will take place across the world this Friday 20 September. Within the arts, huge numbers of organizations have already declared a climate emergency and are encouraging participation in Friday’s strike.
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13 September 2019
Now available a Museum Watch online form
Museum Watch makes available an online form for members and non-members of CIMAM to easily reach the CIMAM board and submit their case.
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12 September 2019
Last days to register for CIMAM 2019
Join us as we bring together directors, curators and visual arts professionals from across the globe to discuss key issues and sector trends. Registrations close on 30 September.
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9 September 2019
Centre Pompidou-Metz is seeking to recruit a Director
Closes: 30 September 2019. Centre Pompidou-Metz, the first major cultural decentralization project in France of a national public museum, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, is looking for a new Director.
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7 September 2019
ICOM postpones the vote on a new museum definition
After a profound and healthy debate among ICOM members, the Extraordinary General Assembly has decided to postpone the vote on the new museum definition. The decision gathered 70,41% votes in favour.
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5 September 2019
Magalí Arriola is the new Director of Museo Tamayo
Magalí Arriola, a curator and critic based in Mexico City, has been named director of the Museo Tamayo in the Mexican capital. One of Arriola’s priorities will be increasing the international reach of the museum.
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4 September 2019
Byucksan Foundation supports 2 professionals to attend CIMAM 2019 in Sydney
This is the second time that the Byucksan Foundation is generously supporting contemporary art museum professionals residing in the Northeast Asia region (Republic of Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Mongolia) to attend the CIMAM Annual Conference.
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2 September 2019
Context is key as museums seek new meaning
Article by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor. The biggest question facing museum professionals, and one that will be discussed at the International Council of Museums conference in Kyoto next week, is the definition of a museum in a world that has changed radically since museums were established in the 19th century.
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1 September 2019
Contribution of Modern and Contemporary Art Museums in a Global 21st Century
CIMAM contributes to the ICOM General Meeting 2019 in Kyoto with a presentation by Suhanya Raffel.
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29 August 2019
The 2019 V-A-C Foundation Travel Grant beneficiaries
We are honored to have the V-A-C Foundation as one of CIMAM Travel Grant sponsors for the second consecutive year! They are supporting 2 professionals residing in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan), to attend the CIMAM Annual Conference.
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28 August 2019
Gabriela Urtiaga, appointed chief curator of The Museum of Latin American Art
Dr. Lourdes I. Ramos-Rivas, President and CEO of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), announced that: "Ms. Urtiaga was selected based on her extensive curatorial expertise specializing in Contemporary Latino and Latin American art".
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20 August 2019
The 2019 Alserkal Arts Foundation Travel Grant beneficiaries
We are proud to have the Alserkal Arts Foundation as sponsor for the third consecutive year! They are supporting 2 professionals residing in the United Arab Emirates, the wider Middle East and North Africa region, to attend the CIMAM Annual Conference.
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8 August 2019
Victoria and Albert East Museum is seeking a Director
Closes: 14 August 2019. The V&A East is looking for a visionary creative leader with the passion and ability to establish it's institution as a major new cultural attraction in East London.