Curatorial Practices have never been so discussed, criticized and theorized as lately. From books from the likes of Sternberg Press, i.e., to articles in blogs, online journals, etc. the subject seems to quickly start entering everyone’s sphere of reading and debating. I leave you with a quick reading list of some of my latest and current favorite reads:
+ Pedro Gadanho, Curating is the New Criticism.
(MOMA’s new curator for Contemporary Architecture on his program, practices and first show)
+ Cultures of the Curatorial, Sternberg Press.
(Cultures of the Curatorial assumes a curatorial turn in contemporary cultural practice and discourse. Coming from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds, the contributors exemplify the entanglement of theory and practice, consider recent developments within the curatorial field, allow self-reflexive analysis, and explore the conditions—disciplinary, institutional, economic, political, and regional—under which art and culture become public.)
+ Thinking Contemporary Curating, Terry Smith.
(In-depth analysis of the volatile territory of international curatorial practice and the thinking—or insight—that underpins it. In five essays, renowned art historian and critic Terry Smith describes how today curators take on roles far beyond exhibition making, to include reimagining museums; writing the history of curating; creating discursive platforms and undertaking social or political activism, as well as rethinking spectatorship.)
+ Useless: Critical Writing in Art and Design, Royal College of Art.
(Collection of essays from the graduating students of the Royal College of Art’s new Critical Writing in Art and Design MA programme.)
