Making a Museum in the 21st Century addresses some of the most pressing issues for museums in a new era of popularity and audience engagement. Over the past decade, spectacular buildings and increased attendance have been accompanied by increased expectations for museums to create new ways for visitors to interact with art. Against a backdrop of large demographic shifts and geopolitical shuffles resulting in rapid museum growth in Asia and the Middle East, museums around the world face new opportunities and challenges. This book brings together the perspectives of prominent museum leaders, directors, curators, architects and artists such as David Adjaye, Melissa Chiu (the Hirshhorn), Adam Lerner (MCA Denver), Glenn Lowry (MoMA), Walid Raad (Cooper Union), Hiroshi Sugimoto and others.

Making a Museum in the 21st Century

Morgan, Jessica

Lowry, Glenn

Deliss, Clémentine

Adjaye, David

SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi

Bharucha, Rustom

Carding, Janet

Collier, Caroline

Lerner, Adam

Makariou, Sophie

Nasar, Hammad

Nittve, Lars

Ning, Ou

Raad, Walid

Chunchen, Wang

Reference

Asia Society

The videos and photographs of Song Dong (born 1966) reveal the social implications of China's booming modernity, and the artist's own attempts to reconcile that boom with its spiritual traditions and its effects on members of his family. Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well is based around a much heralded large-scale installation titled “Waste Not” (2005), comprised of over 10,000 items ranging from pots and basins to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and stuffed animals collected by the artist's mother over the course of more than five decades as a way of coping with the death of her husband. A core theme of “Waste Not” is the idea that people, everyday objects and personal stories provide tangible evidence of the impact of politics and history on family life. This volume surveys several works on this theme of material and bodily evidence.

Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well

Arts & Photography

Hung, Wu

ELLIOTT, David

Hertz, Betti-Sue

Xianting, Li

History & Criticism

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

An icon in his native city, Tsang Tsou Choi (1921–2007) covered the streets of Hong Kong with his graffiti for over 35 years, using a brush and ink to proclaim himself “the King of Kowloon”--heir to an imaginary birthright that fueled a lifetime of artistic output. With his signature style, Tsang wrote himself into the collective memory of a generation caught between British and Chinese rule, leaving behind an oeuvre that includes countless outdoor projects (the majority now extant only in photographs), myriad works on paper, board and cloth, as well as painted objects. This milestone publication documents Tsang’s influential art and enduring legacy. With over 100 reproductions, a foreword by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and critical essays by Hou Hanru, Ou Ning and others, The King of Kowloon is the first comprehensive survey of Tsang’s complex and fascinating artistic output.

The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi

Hanru, Hou

Damiani

This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan.&nbsp;The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. The writings&nbsp;describe and criticize the social problems caused by China's over-loading urbanization process and starts a a&nbsp;contemporary&nbsp;agrarianism&nbsp;and agritopianism&nbsp;discourse to resist the modernism and developmentalism doctrine which dominated China for more than a century, answering a global&nbsp;desire&nbsp;for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today's environmental and political crises.This practical utopian commune project ran for 6 years and caused a national debate on rural issues in China, when it was invited to be exhibited and presented abroad.&nbsp; This collection of writing will be of interest to artists, China scholars, architects, and the cultural community at large.

Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction (Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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