Museums and Entrepreneurship

Eve Kalyva is Lecturer of Art History at the University of Kent and a museum educator. Her interdisciplinary research spans conceptual and contemporary art, image and text relations, social semiotics, activism, exhibition design, decolonial practices and the Global South, with a regional focus on South America. At Kent, she leads the research project Decolonial Practices in Art and Culture.Iro Katsaridou is currently Director of the MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography. She was previously a curator at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki. Iro has taught art history and museum studies in several universities in Greece, participated in international conferences and published contributions in journals, collective volumes and exhibition catalogues. Her research interests focus on photography (historical and contemporary), art and politics and socially engaged art history as implemented in museum practices.Pamela Bianchi is a lecturer in art history and exhibition design at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville (Paris), specialising in the relationship between art and architecture.

• 1. Introducing the Entrepreneurial Turn; 2. Sponsoring National Art: Funding Construction and Securing Dedications; 3. MAXXI Rome: When a Museum Displays Politics; 4. Consequences of Sponsorship: European Museums and Corporations—The Case of Volkswagen; 5. Away with the Basics? Exhibition Design, Experience Economy and Polyphony; 6. René Magritte’s Diasporic Doubles: Staging the Filipino Security Guards at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; 7. Elite Philanthropy and China’s Museums: Individual Passions and Innovative Models; 8. The Value of Community: Case Studies of Real and Symbolic Economy in South American Museums; 9. Postscript: Where Do We Go from Here?