Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Era of the Curator
Not many people understand that the museum exhibit they go and see is planned out meticulously for months. How will the works be received? Are they represented properly? Is the artist's statement visible through the display of his/her work? These things do not fall upon the artist, but the curator. "At the same time, the presentation of art is more dependent on the curator than ever" (Brenson 57). I never thought about how different cultures and countries would perceive art from other cultures, and a large part of that falls open the shoulders of the curator. Artists have been becoming more and more elusive and this is causing the curator's role to become more and more important. "The work will take credit for itself"- andy Goldsworthy. Things like this have also made the curator's role more difficult. Artists are staying more hidden and they are letting their work speak for themselves but in all reality the curator is making sure the works' voices are heard.
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Like many people, I did not understand the everything that goes behind putting an exhibition together until I spent a summer interning at the Birmingham Museum of Art a couple of years ago. I worked in the Public Relations department, and had no idea so many people put so much work into opening exhibitions. Each department has to work together to make things work. The pr department has to get the word out about this exhibit, the education department has to organize educational events about the exhibit, and that is only a part of it. What interested me was that I rarely saw the curator that held an office on my floor. She had her office in the corner and was usually only seen running in and out every once in a while. It was interesting to read about the era of the curator and apply it to what I had seen in my personal experience.
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