Interview with Helēna Demakova
Laima Slava
Next year will be the centenary of the State Museum of Art. Opened in 1905 was a new building intended specifically to serve as a museum - the first such building in the Baltic - and along with this, a new art museum was founded. A century later, this is still Latvia's only true museum building, housing a collection that gives a sequential picture of the professional development of Latvian art. There has long been talk of the need for a new museum for contemporary art, but only last year, when Helēna Demakova took office as Minister of Culture, she declared as her priorities the completion of the National Library building project and the realisation of two urgent projects: a new concert hall in Riga and a contemporary art museum. It seems that 2005 promises definite steps in this direction. Hence this conversation with the minister about contemporary art in particular.
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