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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
For more than two centuries museums have preserved art, artifacts, and natural specimens, engaged and educated the public, and provided resources for research in areas from art history to zoology. Inside the Lost Museum explains the work of museums--collecting, preserving, displaying, and using collections--by considering their remarkable history. Museums make choices about what's worth saving. Inside the Lost Museum explores those choices, and the...
Publisher
Mousse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Immer wieder haben Künstler den weit gefassten Begriff der "Ausstellung" im Sinne eines kritischen Mediums gedeutet und konventionelle Formen des Ausstellungsmachens neu gedacht. Die Anthologie stellt wegweisende Beispiele solcher Ausstellungsprojekte einschließlich seltener Zeugnisse und Illustrationen vor. Neben einer Einführung und den 20 erstmals in Mousse abgedruckten Texten umfasst sie auch ein Nachwort von Hans Ulrich Obrist sowie zwei...
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. At the heart of it all from the very start have been curators. Yet after three decades as a natural...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year's Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; only a third of artists represented by U.S. galleries are female, but over two-thirds of students enrolled in art and art-history programs are young women. Arranged in thematic...
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Series
ICI perspectives in curating volume no. 1
Publisher
Independent Curators International
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibition-making; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly of concern, are issues such as rethinking spectatorship,...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer and selector...
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Join William the hippo and friends in an interactive adventure puzzle book. Help them solve the mystery and save the exhibition! William the hippo and his friends live on 5th Avenue, New York, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At night, when the museum is closed and all the visitors have gone home, their adventures begin. A special exhibition is about to open, and everyone is excited to see the amazing exhibits from all over the world. However,...
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