The third in a series of books investigating the future of the museum following on The Future
of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (2020) and Imagining the Future of the Museum: 21 Dialogues With
Architects (2022). Rounding out the previous volumes which examined the "software" and the
"hardware" of the museum the 40 dialogues in the third installment of the trilogy survey the
social cultural economic institutional and technological conditions of the wider ecology in
which museums operate. The conversations include leading figures from around the world
engaging voices not heard in the prior volumes: artists curators collectors members of the
art trade sociologists entrepreneurs and others. Together they offer a portrait of an art
world seeking to adapt to a rapidly changing society. András Szántó (*1964 Budapest) advises
museums cultural institutions and leading brands on cultural strategy. An author and editor
who oversaw the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University his writings have
appeared in The New York Times Artforum The Art Newspaper and many other publications.
Szántó who lives in Brooklyn has been conducting conversations with art-world leaders since
the early 1990s as a frequent moderator of the Art Basel Conversations series and as the
moderator of the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
