Curating Art

Curating Art provides insight into some of the most socially and politically impactful curating of historical and contemporary art since the late 1990s. It offers up a museological framework for understanding watershed developments of curating in art museums.

Representing the plurality of theory and practice around the expanded field of relational curating, the book focuses on curating that prioritises the quality of relationships between people and objects, between institutions and people and among people. It has wide international breadth, with particularly strong representation in East and Southeast Asia, including four papers never before translated into English. This Asian cluster illuminates the globalisation of the field and challenges dichotomies of East and West while acknowledging distinctions within specific, but often transnational, cultural spheres.

The compelling philosophical perspectives and case studies included within Curating Art will be of interest to students and researchers studying curating, exhibition development and art museums. The book will also inspire current and emerging curators to pose challenging but important questions about their own practice and the relationships that this work sustains.

List of contents

1. Curating as a relational practice
Janet Marstine and Oscar Ho Hing Kay
Part I Expertise

Introduction to Part I
Janet Marstine

Groundwork
2. Curation is Spreading
Hajime Nariai

3. Who is HUO?
David Balzer

Connoisseurship
4. From connoisseurship to technical art history: the evolution of the interdisciplinary study of art
Maryan W. Ainsworth

Curatorial vision and institutional history

5. 'Electronic Refractions II' at the Studio Museum in Harlem
Susan E. Cahan

6. On quality: curators at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1935-2010)
Richard Cándida-Smith

Provenance

7. Faked biographies: the remake of antiquities and their sale on the art market
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Sophorn Kim

8. Renewing Nazi-era provenance research efforts: case studies and recommendations
Nancy Karrels

Exhibition-making and the canon
9. Aestheticized installations for modernism, ethnographic art and objects of everyday life [excerpt]
Mary Anne Staniszewski

10. Eloquent walls and argumentative spaces: displaying late works of Degas
Richard Kendall

11. Feminist perspectives on curating
Dorothee Richter

Linking past to present

12. The Battle over 'The West as America'
Alan Wallach
13. Curating contemporary art: narrating the past and reflecting on the individual and time
Vivian Ting Wing Yan

Part II Engagement

Introduction to Part II
Janet Marstine

Groundwork

14. Masterpieces and the critical museum
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius

The processes of cultural translation
15. From entangled objects to engaged subjects: knowledge translation and cultural heritage regeneration
Lea S. McChesney
16. The 'fourth world' theory in Wonil Rhee's curating: focusing on post-colonialism
Kim Sung-Ho

Artists as curators
17. The book in which we learn to read: contemporary artists and their place within historical museums
Jasper Sharp

18. Curatorial relationality
Beatrice von Bismarck
19. No good time for an exhibition: reflections on the Picasso in Palestine project, Part I
Michael Baers

Relational practice with publics
20. Other people's stories: bringing public-generated photography into the contemporary art museum
Areti Galani and Alexandra Moschovi

21. The unexpected guest: food and hospitality in contemporary Asian Art
Francis Maravillas

Negotiating the local and the global

22. The right to be wrong
Howard N. Fox

23. Homegrown: The origins of performance art in Myanmar
Nathalie Johnston
24. From object to subject: conceptualizing 'The Future of Tradition-The Tradition of Future'
Avinoam Shalem

Navigating the pressures of censorship

25. Encounters with censorship
Ng g wa Thiong'o
26. Art is not bioterrorism: the criminalization of critical cultural and intellectual production
Faith Wilding

Part III Platforms

Introduction to Part III
Janet Marstine

Groundwork
27. The roving eye: Southeast Asian art's plural views on self, culture and nation
Iola Lenzi
28. Experiments in integrated programming
Sally Tallant
29. The transmedia museum
Jenny Kidd
Blurring the boundaries between performance, programme and exhibition

30. 'The Play': reassembling African arts in the West'
Joshua I. Cohen

31. Museum for the people? Two joint projects for Haiti and Congo
Bogumil Jewsiewicki

Appropriating the apparatus of the institution

32. Trading Place: Museum of contemporary art
Kao Chien-Hui
33. Mockstitutions
Gregory Sholette

Curating interstitial spaces

34. Invading the medias: Selma and Sofiane Ouissi's 'Dream City'
Rachida Triki

35. Bishan Project: restarting the rural reconstruction movement
Ou Ning

New models of curating in a network culture
36. Reconfiguring curation: noninstitutional new media curating and the politics of cultural production
Patrick Lichty

37. The politics of contemporary curating: a network perspective
Joasia Krysa

About the author

Janet Marstine is Honorary Associate Professor of Museum Studies (retired), University of Leicester, and is now based in Maine in the US. She writes on diverse aspects of museum ethics from curatorial ethics to artists' interventions as drivers for ethical change and has a particular interest in recognising and supporting the agency of practitioners to make informed ethical decisions.
Oscar Ho Hing Kay is Associate Professor of Practice and Director of the Master's Programme in Cultural Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Formerly he was the exhibitions director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai.

Summary

Curating Art provides insight into some of the most socially and politically impactful curating of historical and contemporary art since the late 1990s. It offers up a museological framework for understanding watershed developments of curating in art museums.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Hing Kay Marstine
• Assisted by: Oscar Ho Hing Kay (Editor), Janet Marstine (Editor), Marstine Janet (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781138907973
• ISBN: 978-1-138-90797-3
• No. of pages: 458
• Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, The arts: general topics