"Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, their ownership, placement, and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserves careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established …
The International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized international networks of artists in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s and '70s. In that era, individual artists and artist collectives assembled collections; organize…
"This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, when photography's place in the museum was not only continually questioned, but also continually redefined. By taking this historica…
The Private Collector's Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy, and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cu…
This volume contains a series of commissioned texts by artists, curators, and art historians on the subject of the evolution of contemporary arts, institutions and the spaces contained therein.
Towards more progressive views of scientific literacy in science museums -- Science communication, public engagement and science museums -- Generations of science museums : changing roles, changing goals -- Engaging controversy -- Deconstructing science : A question of truth -- …
by Wamers, Egon, Brandt, Michael, Ausstellung Die Macht des Silbers, Frankfurt, Main; Hildesheim, Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt, Dommuseum Hildesheim, Ausstellung "Die Macht des Silbers", Frankfurt am Main, Ausstellung "Die Macht des Silbers", Hildesheim
In diesem bahnbrechenden neuen Buch enthüllt Fleur Watson die Entstehung des "neuen Kurators". Anstatt fertige Werke oder Artefakte auszustellen, bietet der Aufstieg der "performativen Kuration" einen Raum, in dem experimentelle Methoden der Begegnung mit Designideen erprobt wer…
Design as exhibit (curator as space-maker) -- The prosthetic (curator as interloper) -- The mediator of process/research (curator as translator) -- The hybrid to the digital (curator as speculator) -- The advocate/activist (curator as agent) -- The event as performance (curator …
