Edit Sasvári is an art historian and has been director of the Kassák Museum, Budapest, since 2010. She holds degrees in Hungarian and history from Janus Pannonius University, Pécs; the history of art from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; and curatorial studies from Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Vienna. For her PhD, she studied at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of the Department of Modern History, University of Pécs, where she will defend her dissertation in 2015. Sasvári has been working in the museum field since 1988, and her main areas of research are historical modernism and the avant-garde, and cultural and political aspects of art in the 1960s and 1970s.
As museums move to put more geographically inclusive displays on view, a tension in emphasis–between cross-geographic correspondences and local particularities–is necessarily at stake. We convened a conversation between art historian, Alexander Alberro; curator, Doryun Chong; and museum director, Edit Sasvári, each with their own regional focus, to discuss the possibility of “the global museum,” what…
