The appointment of Patricia Marroquin Norby is a historic milestone for the museum, which decided to display Indigenous art in its American Wing for the first time in 2017.
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Locarno Curator Calls Out the Politics of Film Festival Programming
Greg de Cuir Jr. talks to Hyperallergic about curating a retrospective of Black film for the 2019 Locarno Film Festival.
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A New Initiative Places Curators Who Identify as Disabled at UK Museums
The disability-led visual arts organization DASH is funding curatorial positions at three museums across the UK.
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The Creation, and Re-creation, of the Curator
After centuries of slaving away in the shadowy alcoves of museums, libraries, and archives, curators are finally having their 15 minutes in the spotlight.
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From Pop Music to Blogging, Everyone’s a Curator
At a private salon event at the Museum of Modern Art this past Monday night, Paola Antonelli, a famed design curator and MoMA’s newly named director of research and development, convened an interdisciplinary panel to discuss the present and future of that much-debated term in the art world and beyond, “curator.”
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The New Yorker Wades into “Curator” Confusion
This week’s New Yorker takes a shot at the craze to “curate” everything in our lives.
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Collection (Not) as Curation: How Exhibitions are Different From Libraries
Does an understanding of professional collecting, as is done in libraries, give us a better understanding of what’s happening on Tumblr, or at least help us better understand how we define curation? I turned to the founder and organizer of the Reanimation Library, artist and professional librarian Andrew Beccone, for his thoughts.
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Curator Diary: Jason Andrew in Asheville (Day 3)
Today’s Curator Diary from Jason Andrew exposes the nuts and bolts of putting together an exhibition. Andrew works with an art handler to install pieces in the developing Jack Tworkov show, frets over catalogue corrections and reaches out to area artists and students. Curating isn’t all glamorous openings and swanning around with Marina Abramovic, after all.
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Curator Diary: Jason Andrew & Tworkov at Black Mountain College
This Curator Diary is an editorial feature documenting curator and local Bushwick hero Jason Andrew’s trip to Asheville, North Carolina to mount an ambitious exhibition of work by Jack Tworkov. The column will explore the day-to-day process of curating, a behind-the-scenes look into what a curator actually does.