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David Balzer is a Canadian writer, editor, and critic known for his work on art, culture, and media.
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Curate This!
Curate This! is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the evolving role of the curator in contemporary art and culture. The book examines how curatorial practice has expanded beyond the museum and gallery into everyday life, social media, and digital spaces, questioning what it means to 'curate' in the 21st century.
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Historical Overview
To understand the present fluidity of curatorial practice, we look first to its roots. The word ‘curator’ derives from the Latin *curare*, to care—a guardian of collections, a keeper of knowledge and artifacts. In the early museum tradition, curators were caretakers of objects, stewards of taxonomie...
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Expansion of Curatorial Practice
We now live in a world saturated by curation. The expansion of curatorial practice far beyond art institutions marks one of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of the early twenty-first century. In our interviews and essays, contributors revisit how the verb ‘to curate’ escaped its professional ...
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David Balzer is a Canadian writer, editor, and critic known for his work on art, culture, and media.
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