The Death of the Expert Curator
By Anna Yuwen The collection and summation of all human knowledge is a not a new endeavor. Varying institutions across millennia have searched for ways to catalogue, archive, and disseminate...
By Anna Yuwen The collection and summation of all human knowledge is a not a new endeavor. Varying institutions across millennia have searched for ways to catalogue, archive, and disseminate...
Wild Thinking, Coffee and Notes on Table Cloths It is the basic idea of the WeberWorldCafé to start an open conversation. The goal is to have a small group of people engage...
Our table hosts Beatrice von Bismarck (Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig) and Menno Fitski (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) will be up for discussion about theoretical and practical aspects of Curating at their table The Practice...
(Closing date for short abstracts: May 20, 2015) Museums are about display. But are they really? In spite of recent curatorial attempts to exhibit ‘visible storage’, prevailing debates in the history of...
How can artefacts be exhibited without falling into problematic categories like “Europe” and “the Other”? Can we make sense of the distinction between art and ethnology or art and material...