The Politics of the Curation Craze

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122589/when-did-we-all-become-curators

Against “Curation”

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/63364-the-p-l-sheet-against-curation.html

Do you worry about everybody being a curator and nobody creating anything?

To create meanings - or perhaps "new readings," which is what curators
try to do - is to create. Period. Making something new does not
necessarily involve bringing something physical into existence - it
can be something mental such as a metaphor or a theory. More and more
curatorship becomes inseparable from the so-called art part. Since
there's no longer a golden line through the fine arts, you are acting
curatorially all the time by just making a choice to be in one
particular place in the field rather than another.

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