Visual Arts Studies Third Annual Conference kicks off
28 Apr 2021 - 11:02
The Peninsula
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, in collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, hosted on Sunday, 25 April 2021, the Visual Arts Studies Third Annual Conference 2020-2021 under the theme “The Future Museum in the Future City,” with the participation of artists, researchers, museum practitioners, and curators from around the world, to discuss -over three days- the future scenarios open to multiple possibilities, by stimulating critical thinking about what may arise in the aftermath of the pandemic.
On the first day, participants had two sessions, “Critical reading of the urban formative forces of the plagued city” and “Revising the history of the modern museum in light of the current pandemic.” In the first session, Adham Selim, Independent Researcher, presented a paper titled: Speculative and excessive: Of finance, architecture and contemporary museum in the Arab
Conference to focus on pandemic impact on museums, cities
19 Apr 2021 - 9:51
By Raynald C Rivera | The Peninsula
Doha: The implications of the pandemic to museums and cities will be at the nucleus of a three-day virtual visual arts conference organised by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI).
The continuation of highly engaging sessions which kicked off late last year, The Visual Arts Studies Third Annual Conference 2020-2021 titled “The Future Museum in the Future City” will be streamed via Zoom from April 25 to 27.
“In this edition of the conference, we look at the implications of the current pandemic on the futures of museums and cities. We expect the conference to be an open platform for a discussion of the questions concerning the various potential scenarios that are likely to come upon us in the foreseeable future,” wrote Qatar Museums in an e-mail to its Culture Pass members. QM invites Culture Pass members to attend