Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance Kate Astbury

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance Kate AstburyTo stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance argues that, despite these daily pressures, good curating work also requires more theoretical attention. In four thematic sections, a distinguished group of contributors consider curation in light of

Culture War focuses on Denmark's experience during this period

new media and the impact on old

Part One is theoretical and looks at the backgrund of this remarkable publishing phenomenon

today – and how they might listen in the future

artist's impressions and digital environments

Susan Hayward

Simon Payne

Like the Litfaßsäule in Orson Welles’s 1949 urban noir masterpiece The Third Man

concentration

jealousy and family from a master of Modernist literature

and consumption of public photography today

freedom of speech versus the need to control content