UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture (CAVC) and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center have published Museums of Tomorrow: A Virtual Discussion, edited by Maurice Berger, CAVC curator. It is based on the proceedings of an online symposium, “Museums of Tomorrow: An Internet Conference of Art Historians, Artists, Critics, Curators, and Directors," moderated by Berger and held on the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Web site in October 2003.

A publication party for the book will be held on Wednesday, June 22 at Metro Pictures Gallery in New York City.

Museums of Tomorrow includes an introduction by Berger and a preface by Barbara Lynnes and UMBC Distinguished Professor of Visual Arts and CAVC Executive Director David Yager. It is distributed by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) in New York.

Contributors include Mark Alice Durant, UMBC visual arts professor, as well as Alexander Alberro, Bruce Altshuler, Maxwell Anderson, George Baker, Stefano Basilico, Jonathan Binstock, Dan Cameron, Karen Mary Davalos, Donna De Salvo, Carol Duncan, Jennifer Gonzalez, Mary Kelly, George King, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblet, Miwon Kwon, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Simon Leung, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Olu Oguibe, Joan Rosenbaum, David Ross, Edward Rothstein, Irving Sander, Michelle Wallace, Alan Wallach, and Sylvia Yount.

The book is the second in a series of publication partnerships between the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Center for Art and Visual Culture. The first, Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion was published in 2003 and received 2nd Prize in the category of Scholarly Journals from the American Association of Museums (AAM) in 2004.

Other recent CAVC publications include Paul Rand: Modernist Design (2003) and White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2004). Paul Rand: Modernist Design received First Prize in the category of Books from the American Association of Museums (AAM) in 2004 and White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art in the category of Exhibition Catalogues from the AAM in 2005.