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» Call for abstracts: Are Curators Unprofessional?

The panel Are Curators Unprofessional (Enough)? will analyze moments of crisis in the profession and ask: When is it necessary to be (un)professional? What issues exist within a field that is demarcated by instability? In the following Craftwork session, panelists will analyze the craft of exhibition making, by examining exhibitions that have provoked paradigm shifts. Is curating a trade or craft, rather than a profession? What skills must a curator possess? Which exhibitions have provoked paradigm shifts? The Catalogue is Out! session will scrutinize the emergence of curatorial writing as a genre and question its unique position and function in relation to art criticism and art history. What, if any, is the function of the catalogue? How does it mediate between the work of art and the world? What is the difference between criticism, curatorial writing and art history? Lastly, the Judge and Jury panel will illuminate the politics of taste, consider the ramifications of judgment with respect to curating and identify the continual attempt to re-distribute the power of judgment.

April 16, 2010, 12:20pm  

» Shaquille O'Neal, art curator?

Now, O’Neal is branching out yet again by taking on the art world. The Cleveland Cavaliers athlete is curating a gallery show in New York that is appropriately titled “Size DOES Matter,” which explores the idea of scale in contemporary art, according to a Bloomberg report.

The show is scheduled to open in February at New York’s Flag Art Foundation, an exhibition space in the Chelsea neighborhood.

“It was a little harder than I thought it would be,” O’Neal told Bloomberg. “When you think about what each of the artists put into their work, what they are expressing and want to share with the world, you feel bad about having to narrow it down.”

Seriously? If you live in New York you can’t miss this. I won’t let you.

November 18, 2009, 1:22pm  

» LACMA photo curator Charlotte Cotton to return to England

Charlotte Cotton, a British curator who has led the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s photography department for the last two years, is joining the staff of the National Media Museum in Bradford, England. As creative director of the museum’s planned expansion in London, she will play an active role in establishing the new space and shaping its exhibition program.

Cotton came to LACMA after 12 years of curatorial work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, followed by a period of organizing projects at smaller institutions in London and New York.

There goes one of my favorite curators.

Also, LACMA, if you need someone in the interim, you know where to find me.

July 17, 2009, 9:45am  

LACMA is  opening the exhibition Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures on January 25 at BCAM.  Looks to be very provocative. 

It was co-curated by Dr. Eckhart Gillen, Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, so that is hopeful.

January 21, 2009, 5:02pm