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

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Multilingualism is a key aspect of life for most people in the world—and has been throughout history—and is a rich source of engagement, playfulness, and joy. It's something that enriches one's life and should be celebrated for what it truly is: a core part of any person's education, cultural identity, and sense of self. In New Ways of Seeing, Chris Livaccari, an educator and former diplomat, makes an eloquent case for language learning as a means to enhance and deepen students' capacity for processing information and analyzing the shape of the world.

New Ways of Seeing: How Multilingualism Opens Our Eyes and Trains Our Minds for a Complex World

Chris Livaccari

Court Arts of Indonesia (Softcover)

Jessup, Helen Ibbitson

Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions, the catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the Asia Society Galleries, New York City, features the work of 27 artists from five countries. Focusing on India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand, this book gives a transnational assessment of a broad theme in art from five countries chosen to represent different mixes of history and postmodernity. As the subtitle Traditions/Tensions suggest, the art deals with the old and the new, the supposed opposites of the traditional and the contemporary, and how individual artists in Asia today accept, integrate, and/or reject them. Key themes include politics, religion, the environment, and women's issues. The text comprises seven essays, with Apinan Poshyananda, an internationally renowned expert on contemporary Asian art and curator of the exhibition, providing a general overview. Five essays by recognized critics discuss current issues in the five countries: Geeta Kapur writes on India, Jim Supangkat on Indonesia, Marian Pastor Roces on the Philippines, Jae-Ryung Roe on South Korea, and Apinan Poshyananda on Thailand. Thomas McEvilley gives a view from North America. Biographies of the artists, chronologies of recent events in the five countries, and a bibliography round out the picture, making this volume a valuable resource for collectors, scholars, and students of contemporary art.

Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions, Tensions

Arts & Photography

Poshyananda, Apinan

McEveilley, Thomas

Kapur, Geeta

Supangkat, Jim

Roces, Marian Pastor

Roe, Jae-Ryung

History & Criticism

The future of Burma: Crisis and choice in Myanmar (Asian agenda report)

The history, political economy and international importance of Burma are considered in this volume with a mind to assessing whether the country is likely to follow the reforms in train in communist countries in Europe.

The Future of Burma: Crisis and Choice in Myanmar (Asian Agenda Report)

Business & Money

Steinberg, David I.

Economics

Nepal: Where the gods are young

PAL, Pratapaditya

Southeast Asian ceramics: Ninth through seventeenth centuries

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Frasché, Dean F

Antiques & Collectibles

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Asia Society and three other museums. Table of contents, preface, foreword, acknowledgments, list of lenders, map of Chinese ceramic centers, list of noted historic collections, glossary, selected bibliography. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket lightly soiled. 135+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

Chinese ceramics from Japanese collections: T'ang through Ming Dynasties

HAYASHIYA, Seizo and Henry Trubner

The royal hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire

Prudence Oliver Harper

Asia in New York City

Unknown, Author

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