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The Baer Faxt PodcastThe Baer Faxt Podcast: MCA Chicago with Madeleine GrynsztejnIn this episode, host Josh Baer speaks with Madeleine Grynsztejn, director of the MCA Chicago. In part one of the conversation, Baer and Grynsztejn discuss the past, present, and future of the MCA, Grynsztejn’s experience becoming a museum director after years as a curator, and how the MCA is pursuing its mission to be a “hyperlocal museum with global reach.”
Then, tune in as Grynsztejn and Baer tackle Chicago’s vibrant art scene and how the MCA integrates local culture into its programming, including through a new expansion into performance art; and, how the MCA is holding...
2025-05-2947 min
Fearless Creative LeadershipMadeleine Grynsztejn of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - "The Questioning Leader"What are you going to preserve? Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She sees society from a distinctive vantage point, through the lens of an organization that exists to generate inquiry. Her work is to encourage communities to learn from themselves and from each other. To help us examine our past and be intentioned about our future. Leading a creative business demands that we look ahead, vigorously, bravely and relentlessly. Where are we going, how will we know when we get there, and who’s joining us...
2023-01-2722 min
Fearless Creative LeadershipMadeleine Grynsztejn - Fearless - FastEdited highlights of our full conversation. What are you going to preserve? Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She sees society from a distinctive vantage point, through the lens of an organization that exists to generate inquiry. Her work is to encourage communities to learn from themselves and from each other. To help us examine our past and be intentioned about our future. Leading a creative business demands that we look ahead, vigorously, bravely and relentlessly. Where are we going, how will we know...
2023-01-2705 min
What Happens Next in 6 MinutesBioethics, US-Israel Relations, Selling the Museum’s Art, and Who is White? - What Happens Next- 2.28.2021Host: Larry Bernstein. Guests include Jacob Appel, Jonathan Moreno, Tevi Troy, Madeleine Grynsztejn, and Richard Alba Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe
2021-02-282h 09
Fearless Creative LeadershipMadeleine Grynsztejn of The MCA Chicago on Unintended Consequences"The Questioning Leader". Madeleine has been the Director of The MCA Chicago for 12 years. She thinks about art and its role in society four-dimensionally. She thinks about museums the same way. In the last two weeks, some of our conversation will feel like it is from another era. Because it is. But regardless of how much we flatten the curve or don’t, a new society will form out of the one we are leaving behind. It is the way of human beings to evolve and adapt. And art and museums will...
2020-03-2344 min
Fearless Creative LeadershipMadeleine Grynsztejn - In 15"The Questioning Leader". 15 minute edited highlight of our full conversation. I recorded this episode just over 2 week ago. Before the world changed. It’s a conversation with Madeleine Grynsztejn - the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Over the last few days, I’ve thought a lot about whether to publish this episode because so much of what we talked about seems at first glance to be from a different reality. But I think, it’s an important interview for a couple of critical reasons. Madeleine...
2020-03-2320 min
2009-09-0743 minBad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 23: James Rondeau, Cecilia Edefalk
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Duncan and Richard interview James Rondeau, superstar curator and Cecelia Edefalk, superstar artist. We just bought the right to the word "superstar" so we are compelled to use it as much as possible. Stealing liberally from the AIC's press release bank we now paste the following for your enlightenment.
"The Art Institute of Chicago presents the first solo U.S. exhibition of Swedish artist Cecilia Edefalk as part of its Focus exhibitions of contemporary art. Double White Venus, a series of 12 paintings all titled Double White Venus, will be on view in Gallery 139 of the museum...
2006-02-051h 03