Museum Studies

Looks at issues such as collecting film and video art, conservation issues associated with contemporary art and more.

The curatorial turn : from practice to discourse / Paul O'Neill -- Curatorial strategy as critical intervention : the genesis of Facing east / Liz Wells -- No place like home : Europa / Sophia Phoca -- Critical spacial practice : curating, editing, writing / Jane Rendell -- Exhibitions and their prerequisites / Chris Dorsett -- Curating doubt / JJ Charlesworth -- A parallel universe : the "women's" exhibitions at the ICA, 1980, and the UK/Canadian Film and Video Exchange, 1998-2004 / Catherine Elwes -- Thoughts on curating / Richard Hylton -- Oscillating the "high/low" art divide : animation in museums and galleries / Suzanne Buchan -- Generator : the value of software art / Geoff Cox -- Who makes site-specific dance? : the year of the artist and the matrix of curating / Kate Lawrence -- The movement began with a scandal / Alun Rowlands.

A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada.

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the new kinds of relationships that might occur between audiences as viewers, participants, selectors, taggers or taxonomisers. New media art presents many challenges to the curator and collector, but there is very little published analytical material available to help meet those challenges. This book fills that gap. Drawing from the editor's extensive research and the authors' expertise in the field, the book provides clear navigation through a disparate arena. The authors offer examples from a wide geographical reach, including the UK, North America and Asia and integrate the consideration of audience response into all aspects of their work. The book will be essential reading for those studying or practicing in new media, curating or museums and galleries.

Introduction -- The art formerly known as "new media" -- Space and materiality -- Time -- Participative systems -- Introduction to rethinking curating -- On interpretation, on display, on audience -- Curating in an art museum -- Other modes of curating -- Collaboration in curating -- Conclusions : histories, vocabularies, modes.

A personal account from influential art collector Richard Feigen. He writes about the painters he has known and represented and his galleries in Chicago and New York City. He discusses the art boom of the 1980s and its effects, blockbuster exhibitions, and museum administration.