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