On April 29, 2014, "today art museum and Chris wainwright director appointment and signing ceremony" was held in today art museum in baiziwan, Beijing. Zhang baoquan, founder and director of today art museum, gao peng, director of today art museum, and professor Chris Wainwright, an international art expert and educator, attended the ceremony.

    Chris wainwright, the godfather of the international art world, has become a director of today art museum's board of directors, following his signature on the letter of appointment for the board of directors of today art museum in Beijing. His joining means that today art museum has been adhering to internationalization and the "board system" has started to get on the right track. It is not only an important step in the international development of today art museum, but also plays a positive role in promoting the internationalization and standardized development of China art museum industry.

     At the scene of the signing ceremony, professor Chris wainwright told reporters that the reason will give an invitation today art museum, mainly for today art museum in Chinese contemporary art to agree, and think today art museum from beginning to end the pursuit of internationalization, standardization of health mechanism have enough space for development in the future.Today art museum, founded in 2002, is the first private non-public welfare art museum in China, which is committed to promoting the development of Chinese contemporary art. At the same time, it is also the first pure folk art museum built and operated in accordance with international art museum norms after China's entry into WTO. Sotheby's, the authoritative international auction institution, only recognizes two art museums in China. Today art museum is one of them, and it is the only professional art museum that has joined the international art museum alliance in China, representing the highest level of Chinese contemporary art.

At present, today art museum has 5 independent exhibition venues with an exhibition area of over 10,000 square meters. The number of visitors is over 300,000 every year, and the number of exhibitions is over 60 every year. Has successfully held "today fang lijun", "wang guangyi 2012 art retrospective", "liu xiaodong in hetian" and other large solo exhibitions of Chinese contemporary artists; "Today literature exhibition", Chinese contemporary printmaking academic exhibition and other academic exhibitions; The parallel station of the 54th Venice biennale, "future pass -- from Asia to the world", the design exhibition in milan, Italy, the first solo exhibition of the design giant kohei sugiura, etc.

As a private art museum built and operated in accordance with international art museum norms, today art museum has been developing in the direction of "internationalization" and "standardization" since its establishment. In August last year, gao peng, known as "the youngest curator in history", took over the post of director of today art museum and promoted the internationalization of today art museum with a more positive attitude.

     Since art investment boom rolled up in 2002, a large number of private art forms, but the private art gallery, who say, who is basically investment or who is the director says who is the personification of the management, and there is no real director responsibility system under the leadership of the council, as well as the curators, academic and research collection of division of labor system.

      In response to such "institutional abuses", today's museum vigorously promotes the "council" system. As the highest decision-making body of today's art museum, the council exercises the real decision-making power over the development, academic orientation and appointment and removal of curators of the museum.

     The today art museum sum Chris wainwright, serving as a director, it is a very "accurate" cooperation, professor Chris wainwright, cultivated in the gallery management for many years, has rich experience and high reputation in the industry, he can be an international insight, international management experience into the today art museum, and because the professor Chris wainwright itself is also a good international famous curators, will also be introduced more and better international today art museum curator and exhibition.

      In addition to the establishment of a well-functioning council, today art museum has put the foundation on the agenda, according to the museum.

     In foreign countries, a truly healthy art museum operation system is inseparable from the operation of foundations and ngos. However, China does not have such a perfect system. Today's attempt to establish a foundation is another step after the museum's real transformation into a non-profit private gallery in 2006 and the current push for a council. If this system is successfully tried, it will provide the national art museum of China with reference and experience of great practical significance.

     With the signing of Chris wainwright, it is widely believed that the ideal council structure for today is taking shape. Although today art museum did not reveal the information of other directors who will sign the contract with today art museum, but from the signing of Chris wainwright's great deal, it must be the same level of international or domestic industry masters.

      After establishing a truly world-class gallery structure, we shall wait and see whether the future today art museum will truly rank among the world's top contemporary art museums under the new system.