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Ways of Curating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as curation)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,571 ratings — published 2014
Thinking Contemporary Curating (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as curation)
avg rating 3.73 — 101 ratings — published 2012
A Brief History of Curating (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as curation)
avg rating 3.92 — 406 ratings — published 2008
Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Excess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as curation)
avg rating 3.61 — 299 ratings — published 2016
Curating Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as curation)
avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published 2007
Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as curation)
avg rating 4.05 — 176 ratings — published
Radical museology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as curation)
avg rating 4.08 — 293 ratings — published 2013
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating*: *But Were Afraid to Ask (Sternberg Press)
by (shelved 3 times as curation)
avg rating 3.67 — 131 ratings — published 2011
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else (Exploded VIews)
by (shelved 3 times as curation)
avg rating 3.59 — 374 ratings — published 2014
The Anti-Museum: An Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 3.62 — 5,447 ratings — published 2024
The Curator's Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 4.22 — 173 ratings — published 2015
How to Write About Contemporary Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 4.14 — 598 ratings — published 2014
Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 4.52 — 23 ratings — published 2009
Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 4.39 — 23 ratings — published 2009
Art Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 3.97 — 227 ratings — published 2008
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 3.95 — 647 ratings — published 1985
Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers are Creators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as curation)
avg rating 3.41 — 157 ratings — published 2011
The Gifts of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,038 ratings — published 2016
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,317 ratings — published 2020
Professional Practices for Art Curators in Non-Profits (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Exhibition Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.97 — 58 ratings — published 2010
Curating with Care (Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Triple Bond: Essays on Art, Architecture and the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2014
ARTocracy: Art, Informal Space and Social Consequence: A Curatorial Handbook in Collaborative Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2011
Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.68 — 19 ratings — published 2013
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.69 — 5,687 ratings — published 2025
On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators: By Carolee Thea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.62 — 34 ratings — published 2009
Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
Curating Research Data, Volume One: Practical Strategies for Your Digital Repository (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Curating Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 2015
Exhibiting the New Art: 'Op Losse Schroeven' and 'When Attitudes Become Form' 1969 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2011
How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse (Mit Press)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published 2017
This Is the Flow: The Museum as a Space for Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (Leonardo Books)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.10 — 31 ratings — published 2010
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.12 — 155,539 ratings — published 2025
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.97 — 353,885 ratings — published 2012
Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published
How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art's Performativity (Documents, 4)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.73 — 30 ratings — published 2010
Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2007
Pigeons on the Grass Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk about the Field (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2014
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,345 ratings — published 2025
Curating and the Educational Turn (Occasional Table Critical)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.79 — 24 ratings — published 2010
Museum of the Future (Documents Series 18)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 2014
Curating Research Data, Volume Two: A Handbook of Current Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice? (Mit Press)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 2016
Talking Contemporary Curating (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as curation)
avg rating 3.17 — 12 ratings — published 2015
“A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate.”
― The Consuming Fire
― The Consuming Fire
