: how curating took over the art world and everything else Balzer, David. creator David Balzer. text London : Pluto Press , 2015 monographic eng

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vii,135p. : 22cm. Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' is now a buzzword applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows and biennials in a way that can eclipse and assimilate the contributions of individual artists. At the same time, curatorial studies programs continue to grow in popularity, and businesses are increasingly adopting curation as a means of adding value to content and courting demographics. Everyone, it seems, is a now a curator. But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our culture's relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In this incisive and original study, critic David Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation - where it began, how it came to dominate museums and galleries, and how it was co-opted at the turn of the millennium as the dominant mode of organizing and giving value to content. At the centre of the book is a paradox: curation is institutionalized and expertise-driven like never before, yet the first independent curators were not formally trained, and any act of choosing has become 'curating.' Is the professional curator an oxymoron? Has curation reached a sort of endgame, where its widespread fetishization has led to its own demise? Cover Contents Introduction Prologue: Who is HUO? Part 1: Value Part 2: Work Acknowledgements About the Author / David Balzer. Art Art History Curatorship History History Libraries and Museums 708 BAL 9780745335971 : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : A-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, UP. 230905 20230905105610.0