by Sally McKay on June 20, 2011
How do you curate challenging contemporary art for massive audiences in a tourist destination? For the past ten years, Patrick Macaulay has been doing just that, and he has recently transformed a serious work injury into a renewed sense of curatorial ambition.
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by Sally McKay on June 8, 2011
Who determines the meanings of artworks — artists, audiences, curators? Curators contextualize artworks in exhibitions with audiences in mind, but artworks invoke their own contexts independently of curatorial agendas. For this reason, every curator, even the most community-minded, has to figure out how to manage their own power. Today, I take a closer look at the processes of curation with Lisa Myers, an independent curator of contemporary Aboriginal art.
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