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Exhibitions have become "the" medium through which most art becomes
known and assessed. But the art exhibition is an increasingly
critical and unstable category. Constantly reshaped by artists and
curators, the exhibition has become both a prominent and diverse
part of contemporary culture. "Thinking About Exhibitions" presents
a multi-disciplinary anthology of writings on exhibition practice
by curators, critics, artists, sociologists and historians from
North America, Europe and Australia. Texts in the collection are
grouped in sections which focus on the history of the exhibition,
forms of staging and spectacle, and questions of curatorship,
spectatorship and narrative. As well as critical essays, the
anthology includes exhibition proposals, dialogues, position
papers, case studies, polemic articles and interviews.
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales.
Why has the month of November had a special significance - a month
in which I seem to have often experienced some particular, even
notable, event, change, or development? Chalk it up to chance?
Difficult to be sure about that. Sir Patrick Nairne led a
remarkable life with a ringside view of history in the making. He
fought with the Seaforth Highlanders in North Africa; worked in the
post-war Admiralty and Ministry of Defence; organised the first EU
Referendum in 1975; led the Department for Health and Social
Security; contributed to the Falkland Islands Review Committee;
monitored the consultation process in Hong Kong before the
territory was handed back to China; and served as the first Chair
of the Nuffield Council on bioethics. Patrick was one of the most
notable British civil servants of the twentieth century, and in his
later years, after being master of St Catherine's College, Oxford,
began to write about his fascinating life and career. In The
Coincidence of Novembers, Patrick's son - curator and writer Sandy
Nairne - assembles his father's writings, including
autobiographical pieces from his papers, into a volume which offers
a snapshot of the range of his thinking and creativity: his
first-hand experience of significant events in public affairs, his
watercolours, and his meditations on a life spent working for the
public good.
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