A love of art and its history is a must for anyone with a desire to become an art curator. They are the "face" of the museum or gallery, and people will expect the curator to have the knowledge to answer questions about the various art pieces on display, whether a painting, sculpture...
How to become a Gallery Curator: how much they make, what skills they need, how they start. Learn from the basics and get the job
An Paenhuysen An Paenhuysen is a cultural historian, curator, and writer in Berlin. She is the coordinator of the International Curatorial Program of Node Center, where she also teaches art criticism and creative writing in art. As the director of...
Depending on the piece, a conservator may need to accompany the consignment so they can remedy an issue on the spot. But in this case, the majority of artefacts were ceramics: six crates of porcelain, plus three crates of silver from The Met in New York, which can’t be repaired offsit...
Similarly, one cannot use the same standards when evaluating the true-to-life qualities of a realist portrait compared with an expressionist portrait. This is because the expressionist painter is not trying to capture the same degree of visual objectivity as his realist counterpart. To put it ...
But Is It Art: How the Roles of Curator and Critic Can Be Complementary Rather Than CombativeNOT LONG AGO, I PUBLISHED A post on the MoMA website announcing the acquisition in the museum's collection of the first 14 video games. I tweeted it and then went about my business. The post ...
Bowdoin wants to see its students contribute to the community by living The Offer of the College. So, whether it be about “counting nature an intimate acquaintance” through leadership training with the Bowdoin Outing Club or “calling art a familiar friend” as a student curator at the Bowdoi...
grizzlies will typically pass by without trouble. Putting electric fencing around chicken houses and other farm animal quarters is also highly effective at getting grizzlies away. “Our hope is to have a clean, attractant-free place where bears can pass through without learning bad habits,” says...
Habitus is viewed as being responsive to the present environment: “…current circumstances are not there just to be acted upon, but are internalised and become yet another layer to add to earlier socialisations” (Reay, 2004, p. 434). Habitus can be replicated by “encountering a field ...
Near the turn of the first millennium, a popular dice game emerged in which multiple players raced their pieces around an 8 x 8 grid called an ashtapada board. Around the same time, a series of nomadic armies invaded Indian kingdoms. There was pressure on Indian rulers to teach the art ...