http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the Art in the Twenty-First Century PBS series Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:38:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-12484 Roundup | 12th Press Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:10:23 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-12484 [...] Curation ain’t what it used to be, apparently [Art21 Blog] [...] [...] Curation ain’t what it used to be, apparently [Art21 Blog] [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10950 Humre… « Dweller On The Threshold Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:06:18 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10950 [...] ‘See you later, contemporary art curator!’ [...] [...] ‘See you later, contemporary art curator!’ [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10815 The Yuk Factor « Good Morning, Andrew Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:01:31 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10815 [...] Letter from London: See You Later Contemporary Art Curator, by Ben Street Architecture [...] [...] Letter from London: See You Later Contemporary Art Curator, by Ben Street Architecture [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10624 Curating 2.0, A Moveable Feast | Bryan Formhals Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:37:59 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10624 [...] “The word ‘curate’ has become so debased from its original meaning that you can now hang an exhibition in a small commercial gallery, write a 300-word press release and claim to have ‘curated’ it.” - Ben Street [...] [...] “The word ‘curate’ has become so debased from its original meaning that you can now hang an exhibition in a small commercial gallery, write a 300-word press release and claim to have ‘curated’ it.” – Ben Street [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10604 Martine Syms Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:17:31 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10604 Everything was always so much better in the good old days. Nostalgia is a disease. Everything was always so much better in the good old days. Nostalgia is a disease.

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10602 Ben Street on Curating : Bad at Sports Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:06:44 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10602 [...] out Ben Street’s thoughtful and timely essay on curatorial practice of the institutional kind posted today on the Art 21 blog. Best line: [...] [...] out Ben Street’s thoughtful and timely essay on curatorial practice of the institutional kind posted today on the Art 21 blog. Best line: [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10601 No No No 3/2/09 « To Fear It Is To Know It Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:19:10 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10601 [...] Nicholas Bourriaud, curator of Tate Britain’s Altermodern, murdered the Curator. Even Art21 is giving the sideeye to the way the word curator is used nowadays: “DJ’s now talk about ‘curating’ musical [...] [...] Nicholas Bourriaud, curator of Tate Britain’s Altermodern, murdered the Curator. Even Art21 is giving the sideeye to the way the word curator is used nowadays: “DJ’s now talk about ‘curating’ musical [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10597 aaron moulton Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:02:35 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10597 I think that London is certainly a place completely oversaturated with curatorial practice to the point that it has lost meaning allowing these little flickers of back-to-the-basics sensibilities to shine through. Maybe the point when the tate added a search engine bar on their website to allow anyone, but most probably their staff of recent RCA and Goldsmith curating school grads, to google search their way into intelligent juxtapositioning of the collection's contents shows that, at this point, maybe it's best to let a computer take over this job. What Mark Wallinger has proposed is not something new as this is the very nature of curatorial practice. I think that London is certainly a place completely oversaturated with curatorial practice to the point that it has lost meaning allowing these little flickers of back-to-the-basics sensibilities to shine through. Maybe the point when the tate added a search engine bar on their website to allow anyone, but most probably their staff of recent RCA and Goldsmith curating school grads, to google search their way into intelligent juxtapositioning of the collection’s contents shows that, at this point, maybe it’s best to let a computer take over this job. What Mark Wallinger has proposed is not something new as this is the very nature of curatorial practice.

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2009/03/02/letter-from-london-see-you-later-contemporary-art-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-10590 John Wyver Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:45:13 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3486#comment-10590 This is spot on. I couldn't agree more, both with your caution about today practice of contemporary curating and the strengths of Mark Wallinger's exhibition. My own short review of the show also tries to explore why it is such a success: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/index.cfm?start=1&news_id=245 This is spot on. I couldn’t agree more, both with your caution about today practice of contemporary curating and the strengths of Mark Wallinger’s exhibition. My own short review of the show also tries to explore why it is such a success: http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/index.cfm?start=1&news_id=245

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