Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating

Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating is a resource text for students and others interested in the curatorial field. It will provide reflection for both established curators as well as those just beginning to be involved in contemporary art and cultural production.

Rather than invite curators to assess how their roles have changed, we asked academics, writers and a few curators to consider how the proliferation of "cultural producers" has changed the definition, evolution, and purpose of the curator over the last ten years. Each of the ten authors provides a unique perspective on the evolution and practice of the curator, drawing from a wide range of disciplines: the authors are critics, curators, museum directors, curatorial program directors, university professors and philosophers, writers and thinkers from Germany, India, Korea, Sweden, New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Cleveland.