 |
 |
 |
||||||||
|
András Szántó
András Szántó joined AEA as an Associate in 2008 and is currently a member of the senior faculty of the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York and Director of the NEA Arts Journalism Institute at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He was until 2005 the Director of the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia. In 2006, he was a Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome. Other appointments include Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Arts and Culture in Washington, DC, Visiting Scholar at N.Y.U., and Research Affiliate of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University. From 1990 to 1997 Szántó worked at the Media Studies Center, a New York-based think tank. As a consultant, András has designed programs and launched initiatives for several cultural and philanthropic organizations, including The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Henry Luce Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the RAND Corporation, the Open Society Institute, the Aspen Institute, The Wallace Foundation, and The Wealth & Giving Forum. Szántó is co-author and editor of five books and numerous research reports and critical essays. Among his influential research studies are “A New Mandate for Philanthropy?” on U.S. foundation support for arts exchanges and Reporting the Arts I & II, benchmark studies of cultural news coverage. He is co-author of A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era, a widely read 2005 RAND report on the visual art world. He is a founder of ArtworldSalon, the international online site on art issues. His journalism and commentary have appeared in distinguished publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, The Art Newspaper and Architecture. András holds a B.A. from the Budapest University of Economics and a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia. A former advisor to the Hungarian Minister of Culture and Education, he is a trustee of the Cultural Hungarica Foundation and the 2009 Year of Hungarian Culture in New York, and is on the Board of Advisors of the George H. Heyman Center for Philanthropy at N.Y.U. He lives in New York City with his wife, Alanna Stang, and their son, Alexander.
|
||||||||
