Michael Rush

Michael Rush is the Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. In addition to his career as a museum director, he is an award winning curator, and widely published author and critic. He was Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University from 2005-2009, and Director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art from 2000-2004. He is co-founder of the Contemporary Art Museum Directors Association. Among his numerous books are Video Art (2004, fully revised 2nd edition 2007), New Media in Art (2005), New Media in Late 20th-Century Art (2001), all published by Thames and Hudson. He was for several years an award winning experimental theater and media artist with a long association with La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club on the Lower East Side. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Jesuit College of Arts and Letters at St. Louis University, and his doctorate from Harvard University.

Programs

Wynne Greenwood and Debra Singer, host

Victoria Newhouse, host

Umer Butt & Thomas Erben, host

Terence Koh, host

Steve Mumford, host

Sam Jury, host

Rush Interactive, host

Robin Parness Lipson, NJ MoCA, host

Richard Maxwell, host

Raphael Lozano-Hemmer, host

Post-Soviet Art, host

Peter Campus and Anthony McCall, host

Petah Coyne, host

Omer Fast, host

Oliver Michaels and Ohad Meromi, host

Niklas Goldbach, host

Museums Now, Pt. 1, host

Michelle Handelman, host

Michael Smith, host

Michael Joo, host

Miami 2007: Rush Interactive, Art Basel Edition, host

Martin Wilner, host

Martha Rosler, host

Lynn Hershman-Leeson, host

Lisa Sigal, Margaret Evangeline and Julianne Swartz, host

Laurie Simmons, host

Laurent Grasso, SoundFossil, host

Laurent Grasso, Lecture, host

Larry Litt, host

Katharina Sieverding and Paolo Canevari, host

Kate Gilmore, host

Julia Scher, host

Julia Draganovic & Manon Slome, No Longer Empty, host

Joseph Nechvatal, host

Joan Jonas, host

Jill Magid, host

Jen DeNike, host

Janos Stone, host

James Casebere, host

Jackie Raynal, host

Irene Bolger, Sam Miller and Jem Cohen, host

Grayson Cox, host

Grahame Weinbren, host

Free 103.9 - Matt Mikas, Jane Philbrick and Alexis Bhagat, host

Fred Tomaselli, host

Fred Myers, host

Form From Thought Symposium: Art, Science, & Technology , host

Eve Sussman & Jeff Wood, White on White, host

Eva and Franco Mattes, host

Dede Young and April Gornik, host

David Levine, host

Dana Schutz, host

Cildo Meireles, host

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Marc-Olivier Wailler, host

Carolee Schneemann, Kinetics, host

Callie Angell, Andy Warhol Screen Tests, host

Byron Kim, host

Bernar Venet and Michelle Handelman, host

Barbara Bloom, host

Banks Violette, host

Art Basel Miami Beach 2006: Rush Interactive Special Pt. 1, host

Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Miami, The Morning After, host

Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Miami Edition, Pt. 2, host

Armory Show 2007: Terry Berkowitz and Steve Miller, host

Armory Show 2006: Rush Interactive Edition, host

Andrew Kuo, host

Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt, host

Alexis Rockman, host

Art Basel Miami Beach 2006: Rush Interactive Special Pt. 2, host