Art for Tomorrow
June 5-7, 2024
In-person: Venice, Italy
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Art for Tomorrow 2024
Imperfect Beauty
The next Art for Tomorrow will take place in Venice from June 5-7, 2024 at the Palazzo Diedo, owned and newly renovated by the Berggruen Institute. The “floating city” is an appropriate setting to consider the complex problems that beauty can bring: How can cities and cultural sites celebrate their heritage without becoming victims of their own success through overtourism? How can museums and monuments protect themselves from the inevitable impact of the climate crisis? How should institutions and artists think about and reflect the concerns of their changing populations?
These are just a few of the questions we’ll consider at Art for Tomorrow, in a rich program with sessions moderated by New York Times journalists. Underpinning it all will be the central question of how the arts can unite and heal.
The plenary sessions will be complemented by exclusive cultural visits to iconic landmarks and some of the city’s best-kept secrets such as guided tours of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to view the exhibition Jean Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge, the Orsoni furnace, Giardini and Arsenale at the 60th International Art Exhibition and tours of private collectors' homes.
Topics highlights:
- The Arts as the Ultimate Mediator
- Architecture for Good: Can Transformation Be Designed?
- AI and Creativity: Revolution or Disruption?
- Sustainability and the Pitfalls of Beauty
- Identity Crisis: Museums and Social Change
Art for Tomorrow 2024 Speakers
Confirmed speakers include:
Ronen Berger, Author and Drama Therapist; Daniel Birnbaum, Curator; Olga Kefalogianni, Minister of Tourism, Greece; Manuela Luca-Dazio, Executive Director, Pritzker Prize; Magnus Resch, Art Market Economist; Victoria Siddall, Frieze and Gallery Climate Coalition; and many more to be announced soon.
H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Chairperson, Qatar MuseumsBryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Social Justice Activist and Executive Director, Equal Justice InitiativeHermann Parzinger
President, Prussian Cultural Heritage FoundationJordan Weber
Artist and ActivistThaddaeus Ropac
Founder, Thaddaeus RopacWim Pijbes
Art Historian and Director, Droom en DaadToto Bergamo Rossi
Director, Venetian HeritageMelissa Chiu
Director, Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.Art for Tomorrow 2024 Moderators
The event is moderated by senior New York Times journalists.
Matthew Anderson
European Culture Editor, The New York TimesFarah Nayeri
Culture Writer, The New York TimesPamela Paul
Columnist, The New York TimesRoslyn Sulcas
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