Tales of the Unexpected: the Future of Curating Contemporary Crafts Thursday 8th November, mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) 9.45am-4.30pm Organised by the Crafts Council and MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University (in partnership with the Design Museum), Tales of the Unexpected is a conference that will explore the challenges of curating contemporary craft through a series of exciting and […]
The first edition of Curating.info Conversations is with Vancouver-based curator, Alissa Firth-Eagland. Alissa is currently the Director/Curator of Media Art at Western Front. The interview with Alissa covered topics ranging from web 2.0, to relationship-building with artists, to advice for young curators. This interview, the first in the series of e-books that will be released here, is intended to become […]
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has just announced the exhibition curated by their inaugural Hall Curatorial Fellow, and it sounds well worth a visit. The vernissage is on 16 September, and the exhibition is on view from then until February 24, 2008. Announcement from the Aldrich follows: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Voice & Void â […]
Welcome to the September edition of Pick ‘N Mix, my monthly annotated list of bite-sized items that have caught my eye recently. An interesting article about the curating scene in Singapore recently appeared online. In it, Ahmad Mashadi notes that the curator’s role has become more complex, becoming implicated in marketing and sponsorship, where previously it might have been more […]