Twelve Curators, One Project
Imagine how difficult it would be to write a perfect poem. Now, imagine how difficult it would be to write that same perfect poem with...
The One That Got Away: Goshka Macuga’s Kabinett der Abstrakten (After El Lissitzky) 2003
Goshka Macuga’s Kabinett was, for many of us, the work that got away. Try as we might to find ways of incorporating it, including...
The Second Hand: Installation Week
It’s hard, staring at this empty Word document, to know where to start. How to express in a few words just how much of a roller coaster...
William Hogarth and David Hockney: The Rake's Progress
William Hogarth, Plate 8 from A Rake’s Progress (1762) www.britishmuseum.org The eighth scene from William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress is...
Hey Joe, who Joe?
Some songs have such a strong connection with one particular recording artist that it is difficult for us to imagine them performed by...
On Risk and Learning
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson … Showing a video...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Fan fiction: a term used to describe literature which takes the plot and/or characters from another’s work, and rewrites or continues the...
Erasure as Creation: Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953)
Figure 1. Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953; traces of drawing media on paper with label and gilded frame (64.14 x...
Sergei Polunin's Ballet to Hozier's "Take Me to Church."
Chances are, you’ve seen the YouTube video of Sergei Polunin’s ballet to Hozier’s “Take Me To Church.” As I write this, the view counter...
Introducing: The Second Hand
The Second Hand: Reworked Art Over Time is the collective, culminating project of the MA Curating the Art Museum course at the Courtauld...