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The white cube — it’s a vision of the gallery museum that has dominated thinking and practice in the art world for decades Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices is a collection of essays by leading Canadian and international curators and artists that explores regions of practice outside this "cube," delving into contemporary challenges to traditional ideas about art and curating.

With four main topics of inquiry — Publications, New Media, Biennials, and Art Museums Today — Beyond the Box captures groundbreaking thinking and writing from some of the world’s top curator’s and artists. It exposes the passion, creativity, and determination behind successes such as the publications of the Hoopoe-Curatorial, and installations like The Universal Lab, as well as critical commentary documenting the collapse of the 2000 São Paulo Biennial.

The third in a series of books about curatorship published by the Banff Centre Press in association with the Walter Phillps Gallery and the Banff International Curatorial Institute, Beyond the Box will be a touchstone for artists and curators alike..
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Description: Foci gathers together interviews with ten of the most renowned curators working internationally in the field of contemporary art. The interviews are rich with wide-ranging dialogue and cover issues such as the relationship between the exhibit and its location, art as the barometer for the age, the role of architecture, fashion, and design in shaping art, the notions of national and gender identity in art, as well as more specific issues concerning personal curatorial styles. Interviews with Kasper Koenig, Rosa Martinez, Hou Hanru, Harald Szeemann, Vasif Kortun, Maria Hlavajova, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dan Cameron, Yuko Hasegawa, and Barbara London provide the reader a fascinating insight into the work and thought process of some of the most creative individuals in today's art world..
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Few public venues exist for the contemplation of curatorial research and development in Canada, and there are even fewer forums for reflection by Canadian curators within an international context. The Edge of Everything is the result of a book project designed by Catherine Thomas to provide such a space for curators. It is a surprising collection of political, personal, quirky, and humorous commentary by Canadian and international curators on their individual practices. The collection is (as Canadian curator Ihor Holubizky writes) a "chain of incidents, heliocentric worlds at the edge of everything."

From the pathos of Anthony Kiendl’s approach to curatorial work, to the Punk origins of Matthew Higgs’s work, and the contemplation of aboriginal curatorial practice in Canadian institutions, independent curator and art historian, Catherine Thomas has collected a fantastic sampling of thoughts on curatorial work. The curator surfaces from this book as a figure who dwells both in the institutions of the art world, and also in its fissures, its edges and gaps - as Matthew Higgs writes, "between the audience and the stage, between the spectacle and its reception.".
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This text introduces public garden professionals and students to a range of both standard and specialized museological concepts and practices useful for the management and curation of botanical collections. Hohn offers guidance on how to construct collections management policies, maintain steady new acquisitions, document collections, insure adequate preservation and care of specimens, conduct research, and encourage public engagement with the garden..
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This provocative, cutting-edge anthology addresses the challenges of curating, presenting, and preserving new-media art--artworks that use digital technologies as media and emphasize process over object. As an art form that is inherently time based, dynamic, interactive, collaborative, customizable, and variable, new-media art resists objectification. It boldly challenges the traditional art world's customary methods of presentation and documentation as well as its approach to collection and preservation. Edited and introduced by Christiane Paul and featuring contributions by prominent practitioners in the field--institutional and independent curators, theorists, and conservators--this volume charts developments in an exciting field and addresses the conceptual, philosophical, and practical issues of both curating and presenting new-media art..
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Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper is one of the most authoritative books available on the proper care of prints, drawings, sketches, watercolors, and other works of art on paper. In its previous form, as a monograph published by the Intermuseum Laboratory of Oberlin, Ohio, Curatorial Care became an invaluable reference guide for countless students, artists, and professional conservators. This new trade edition, substantially revised and augmented by the author, will prove just as popular.

Included in this book are complete, detailed treatments of such subjects as: factors harmful to paper - light, acidity, moisture, temperature extremes, pests - and how to control them; monitoring and control of interior climate; examination, cleaning, and treatment of deteriorated artworks; matting, framing, storage, and display; and much more.

Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper belongs on the shelf of every conservator, conservation student, serious collector, and art professional..
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