When Artists Curate

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When Artists Curate provides a wide-ranging compendium of curatorial approaches by an international selection of artists, and offers strong academic justification for curation as a significant artistic medium . . . given the breadth and pace of the contemporary art world, it inevitably raises questions and leaves open various areas for future investigation, particularly those concerning the complex relationships between artists, audiences and the wider cultural context. * TLS * Considering the growing interest in curatorial theory in recent years, When Artists Curate is a timely publication that neatly summarizes and expands upon a rapidly developing body of literature . . . Green strategically positions a wide variety of contemporary art within challenging theoretical frames, but her work is well researched and offers an ambitious perspective on the intersections of art making and exhibiting. This book would be useful for academic libraries supporting communities with particular interest in contemporary art, curatorial theory, museum studies, relational aesthetics, and institutional critique. * ARLIS/NA Reviews * Art historian, critic and curator Alison Green takes a closer look at the growing appetite for shows curated by artists, moving exhibition-making away from the management of collections and into the realm of artistic medium. * Crafts Magazine * Alison Green's book, When Artists Curate, provides a broader overview, albeit within a principally European and American context. Developed from her research into the exhibitions staged by the collective Group Material in the 1980s, Green presents a narrative in which artists have paved the way in expanding definitions of exhibition making and curating . . . Although Green highlights the risk of alienating a public that does not know how to participate, she ultimately celebrates the idiosyncratic connections an artist might engender in their curatorial approach. * Burlington Magazine *