This year's Directors Forum focuses on museum architecture and the practical, aesthetic, and philosophical issues raised by the proliferation of new buildings and renovation projects nationally and internationally. The conference will be held on March 29-31, 2004, in New York. Speakers will include noted architects, architectural critics, artists, museum directors, and other key figures. The conference is open to art museum directors and their invited guests.

Panelists include Susan Barnes-Gelt, former City Councilperson, City and County of Denver; Ann Beha, Principal, Ann Beha Architects; Aaron Betsky, Director, Netherlands Architecture Institute; Russell Bowman, former Director, Milwaukee Art Museum; Brad Cloepfil, Principal, Allied Works Architecture; Chuck Close, artist; Joseph Giovannini, architect and architecture critic for New York Magazine; Michael Govan, Director, Dia Art Foundation; Nancy Jones, Director of Education, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Daniel Libeskind, Principal, Studio Daniel Libeskind; Zaha Hadid, Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects; Kathy Halbreich, Director, Walker Art Center; Landis Martin, Board of Trustees, Denver Art Museum; Nancy L. Pressly, President, Nancy L. Pressly and Associates; Lewis Sharp, Director, Denver Art Museum; Bernard Tschumi, Principal, Bernard Tschumi Architects; Bartholomew Voorsanger, Principal, Voorsanger and Associates, and others.

A panel discussion open to the public-held at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation-will introduce the Directors Forum on Monday, March 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. All other sessions (March 30-31) will be held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128.