TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzer, David. 
AU  - David Balzer.
TI  - Curationism: : how curating took over the art world and everything else
SN  - 9780745335971
U1  - 708 BAL 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - , London 
PB  - : Pluto Press
KW  - Art
KW  - Art History
KW  - Curatorship History
KW  - History
KW  - Libraries and Museums
N1  - 
Cover
Contents
Introduction
Prologue: Who is HUO?
Part 1: Value
Part 2: Work
Acknowledgements
About the Author
N2  - 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?
ER  -