A Companion to Museum Curation

Dedication Acknowledgements Foreword Illustrations Introduction Brad Buckley and John Conomos About the Editors Section One: An Overview: The origin and provenance of curating 1. A Selective History of Curating in Pittsburgh: The Recent Story of the Carnegie International David Carrier 2. Curating Curiosity: Imperialism, Materialism, Humanism and the Wunderkammer Adam Geczy 3. Professionalizing the Field: The Case of the United States Andrew McClellan 4. The Emergence of the Professional Curator Carole Paul Section Two: Movements, models, people and politics 5. Curating as a Verb: 100 Years of Nation-States Juli Carson 6. Curating without Borders: Transnational feminist and queer feminist practices for the twenty first century Elke Krasny 7. Displacements and Sites: Notes on a Curatorial Method Maria Lind 8. Africa, Art and Knowing Nothing. Some thoughts on curating at the British Museum Chris Spring 9. Curatorial Crisis Martha Wilson 10. 'We Care as Much as You Pay - Curating Asian Art Thomas J. Berghuis Section Three: The curator in a globalized world 11. Museums are everywhere in China, there is no museum in China (or, how institutional typologies define curatorial practices) Biljana Ciric 12. Curating the Contemporary in Decolonial Spaces. Observations from Thailand on Curatorial Practice in Southeast Asia Gregory Galligan 13. Curated from Within: The Artist as Curator Alex Gawronski 14. Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum Gerald McMaster 15. The Creature from the Id: Adventures in Aboriginal Art Curating Djon Mundine 16. The Impact of Context Specificity in Curating amidst the Forces at Play in a Globalized World of Realms Fatos Üstek 17. The Neglected Object of Curation Lee Weng Choy Section Four: Beyond the museum: Curating at the frontier 18. Parallel processing: public art and new media art Sarah Diamond 19. Approach to the Curatorship of Virtual Reality Exhibitions Arnau Gifreu-Castells 20. Tracing the Ephemeral and Contestational Aesthetics and Politics of the Living Archive Erik Kluitenberg 21. Curating with the Internet Sean Lowry 22. Arts & Science - the Intersection (re)engineered Melentie Pandilovski Index