#curate – @nickkahler on Tumblr

The High Line is the harbinger of a bad pathogen now transforming public space into fussy, extra-busy, overdesigned, high-maintenance mannered playgrounds, curated experiences, and crowd-pleasing spectacles.

Jerry Saltz, “The Problem of Public Art,” 2015

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nickkahler

The big question of the twenty-first century is how to foster collective action. In the age of the Internet, the potential to come to a shared engagement is there, so we ask, what would that mean in relation to display? Curating always follows art, so it is an exciting moment to be close to a new generation that oscillates between the analog and the digital.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Interview with Terry Smith, 2015

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nickkahler

For me, if an exhibition, or the artworks it presents, question the fundamental issues related to our lives, or universal thinking, then this is more important than thinking about the method or type of exhibition.

Mami Kataoka, Interview with Terry Smith, 2015

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nickkahler

The postmodern museum is about pluralism, while the contemporary art museum is about taking a clear position, about breaking with the dominant interpretations of freedom, creativity, and democracy.

Zdenka Badovinac, Interview with Terry Smith, 2015

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nickkahler

I don’t curate. I believe that I am more of a companion to the artist, as a person and as an art historian. I try to be both complicit and detached, which is a kind of contemporaneity, as you would call it, of differences.

Germano Celant, Interview with Terry Smith, 2015

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nickkahler

The artists always told me that they didn’t want sterile white rooms; they wanted something to work against. But museum curators and directors just want the white cube because it’s easy to do and they don’t have to think. They just go and put it up and get out, and it’s cheap to change from show to show. Some stuff just dies in that environment.

Frank Gehry, On the Installation for Billy Al Bengston’s Exhibition at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, 1968 / 2012