Curatorial activism
Subtitle: towards an ethics of curating
By: Maura Reilly ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard
Contributors: Lippard, Lucy R., writer of foreword
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780500239704
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Philosophy; Art; Exhibitions; Social aspects; Art museums; Art and society; Curatorship; Art museum curators
Description: Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year's Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; only a third of artists represented by U.S. galleries are female, but over two-thirds of students enrolled in art and art-history programs are young women. Arranged in thematic sections focusing on feminism, race, and sexuality, Curatorial Activism examines and illustrates pioneering examples of exhibitions that have broken down boundaries and demonstrated that new approaches are possible, from Linda Nochlin's 'Women Artists' at LACMA in the mid-1970s to Jean-Hubert Martin's 'Carambolages' in 2016 at the Grand Palais in Paris. Including interviews with pioneering curators such as Okwui Enwezor, Linda Nochlin, Jean-Hubert Martin, and Nan Goldin, this volume is both an invaluable source of practical information for those who understand that institutions must be a driving force in this area and a vital source of inspiration for today's expanding new generation of curators.
Notes: "With 107 illustrations."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is curatorial activism?; title: Resisting masculinism and sexism; title: Tackling white privilege and Western-centrism; title: Challenging heterocentrism and lesbo-homophobia; title: A call to arms : strategies for change.