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Top left: Participants in East Asian Museum Professionals Workshop, 2001. Top center: Visitors view over 300 objects in the exhibition Design Today in America and Europe, shown in ten locations throughout India, 1959-1961. Top right: Cai Guo-Qiang. Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows. 1998. Wood boat, canvas sail, arrows, metal, rope, Chinese flag, and electric fan, 60 x 283 3/8 x 90 1/2" (152.5 x 720 x 230 cm). Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. © 2003 Cai Guo-Qiang.

International Museum Professionals Workshops

Curatorial Workshop in India

Art historian Geeta Kapur and PS1 chief curator Klaus Biesenbach in conversation during the Curatorial Workshop in Delhi. January 2004.In January 2004, in collaboration with the National Gallery in Delhi and the National Gallery in Mumbai, The Museum of Modern Art organized a series of panel discussions and workshops on curatorial practice in Delhi and Mumbai. Participants included invited Indian art professionals—curators, critics, artists, and publishers—together with four curators from MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Director of the International Program, and a staff member of the MoMA Department of Education. The sessions were structured as discussion groups, allowing for a broad exchange of information and ideas and as much interaction as possible, and focused mainly on contemporary art—both in India and at MoMA and P.S.1.

The program was generously sponsored by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

Museum Practices in the Twenty-First Century: A Cultural Exchange with MoMA

This workshop, jointly organized by the International Program and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, took place in Hong Kong from November 14 to 18, 2002. In addition to attending workshop sessions at the Map of AsiaHong Kong Arts Centre, participants and MoMA staff visited a Symposium on Contemporary Art Exhibitions organized at the Hong Kong Museum of Art by the Guangdong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. MoMA staff members and participants also attended the opening of the First Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, along with its opening symposium. Members of MoMA’s staff also attended the opening of the Shanghai Biennale 2002 at the Shanghai Art Museum.

Sponsors of the Hong Kong Workshop and related activities included The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Alisan Fine Arts, Alice King Gallery, Arculli and Associates, and Hanart TZ Gallery.

List of 2002 workshop participants

East Asian Museum Professionals Workshop

The East Asian Museum Professionals Workshop took place at MoMA from January 14 to 26, 2000, under the sponsorship of The International Council and the Asian Cultural Council. Participants enjoyed visits to Asia Society, Japan Society, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and private collections of MoMA trustees before traveling to Los Angeles from January 28 to 30 in a program arranged by MoMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Los Angeles extension included visits to the Getty Museum and Research Institute; Eli Broad Family Foundation; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; UCLA Hammer Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and several private collections of MoMA trustees and International Council members.

List of 2000 workshop participants


Pictured above:
Top left: Participants in East Asian Museum Professionals Workshop, 2001. Enlargement

Top center: Visitors view over 300 objects in the exhibition Design Today in America and Europe, shown in ten locations throughout India, 1959-1961. Enlargement

Top right: Cai Guo-Qiang. Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows. 1998. Wood boat, canvas sail, arrows, metal, rope, Chinese flag, and electric fan, 60 x 283 3/8 x 90 1/2" (152.5 x 720 x 230 cm). Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. © 2003 Cai Guo-Qiang. Enlargement

Middle right: Art historian Geeta Kapur and P.S.1 Chief Curator Klaus Biesenbach in conversation during the Curatorial Workshop in Delhi, January 2004

 

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