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The New Director of South Korea’s National Modern Art Museum Responds to His Critics

by Claire Voon December 16, 2015December 16, 2015

On Monday Bartomeu Marí, the former head of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, began his new job as head of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, marking the first time the museum has had an official director in over a year.

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South Korean Art Community Demands Institutional Reform Following Controversial Museum Appointment

by Claire Voon December 10, 2015December 10, 2015

The appointment of a new director to South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art last week has extenuated the concerns of the country’s art community over issues of government and institutional censorship.

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South Korea’s Art Community Protests Top Candidate for Museum Directorship After Censorship Fiasco

by Claire Voon November 18, 2015November 19, 2015

South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) will very soon have a new director, but the local art community is protesting the top candidate for the position, Bartomeu Marí.

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Three Resign from International Museum Committee Board, Demand New Leadership

by Claire Voon November 12, 2015November 12, 2015

Three museum directors have resigned from their positions as board members for the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), dissatisfied with how its top figures have handled and responded to debates that first emerged earlier this year over censorship.

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A Tale of Two Exhibitions and the Politics of Forgetting

by Miriam Basilio March 26, 2015March 28, 2015

BARCELONA — The study of the history of exhibitions allows us to “shuffle the deck of art history,” as Robert Rosenblum wrote in his essay for the 2000 exhibition 1900: Art at the Cross-Roads.

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