CURATIONISM

In this vibrant and original book, David Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation, wh ere it began, how it came to dominate museums and galleries, and how it emerged at the turn of the millennium as a dominant mode of thinking and being. Recalling such landmark works of cultural criticism as Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word and John Berger's Ways of Se eing, Balzer asks whether curationism has finally reached its own limits, where its widespread success has paradoxically led to its own demise...[Leer más]