Ways of Curating

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Ways of Curating

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Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was 23 years old. Since then, he has staged more than 300 shows internationally, many of them among the most influential exhibits of our age.

Ways of Curating is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from his years of extraordinary work in the art world. It skips between centuries and continents, flitting from meetings with the artists who have inspired him (including Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois and Gilbert and George) to biographies of influential figures such as Diaghilev and Walter Hopps. It describes some of the greatest exhibitions in history, as well as some of the greatest exhibitions never realised. It traces the evolution of collections from Athanasius Kircher's seventeenth-century Wunderkammer to modern museums and points the way for projects yet to come.

Obrist has rescued the word "curate" from beverage stores and playlists to remind us of the power inherent in looking at art—and at the world—in a new way.

Softcover

192 pages

Dimensions: height 18.1 x width 13.3 x depth 1.5 cm

ISBN: 9780374535698

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published March 15, 2016

Weight: 0.1kg

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes and 23 Nobel Prizes in literature.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. His previous books include Ai Wei Wei Speaks, written with Ai Wei Wei, and Ways of Curating, published by Allen Lane. He is widely considered one of the most influential contemporary curators in the world.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes and 23 Nobel Prizes in literature.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. His previous books include Ai Wei Wei Speaks, written with Ai Wei Wei, and Ways of Curating, published by Allen Lane. He is widely considered one of the most influential contemporary curators in the world.

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