OHWOW Book Club
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Designed by Rafael de Cárdenas, the first OHWOW Book Club has just opened in New York’s Greenwich Village. Drawing inspiration from stepping patterns commonly found in Navajo blankets, Rafael de Cárdenas constructs a new retail…

Another curated bookstore and exhibition space in Chicago this time. I think I’m in love. 

The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. 
The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns – encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by Archive Books and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands.

The Exhibitionist will be published twice a year and will follow a strict editorial structure. In each issue, the Curators’ Favorites section will present three texts in which three curators write a personal essay about an exhibition, contemporary or historic, that has particularly impacted their thinking, followed by Back in the Day – an in-depth look at a historically important exhibition. In Assessments, the core of the journal, four curators will review a significant contemporary exhibition, each from his or her individual point of view. Typologies debates specific exhibition formats. Attitude features a text by a member of the editorial board reflecting on the current state of exhibition making. In Rear Mirror, two curators reflect upon exhibitions they have recently curated. And, finally, Endnote, a brief remark on a notable aspect of curatorial practice. Every fourth issue will include a conversation between some of the contributors about past issues; in this way the journal offers a forum for self-reflexivity.

The launch of the first issue of The Exhibitionist will be celebrated on February 11 at Archive Kabinett in Berlin. Several of the contributors and members of the editorial board will be present; they will engage in a public conversation about the current state of exhibition making and the new wave of publications on the subject of curating. The speakers will includeJens Hoffmann, Chus Martínez, Tara McDowell and Adriano Pedrosa.

The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making
Editor: Jens Hoffmann
Senior Editor: Tara McDowell
Editorial Board: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Okwui Enwezor, Mary Jane Jacob, Constance Lewallen, 
Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Jessica Morgan, Julian Myers, Paul O’Neill, Hans Ulrich Obrist, 
Adriano Pedrosa, Dorothea von Hantelmann
Editorial Founders: Jens Hoffmann and Chiara Figone

For subscriptions and/or individual copies 
of The Exhibitionist you can also email: 
info@the-exhibitionist-journal.com
www.the-exhibitionist-journal.com

Found on Archivebooks.org a great little publisher.

Just another interesting curation article.

“The word “curate,” lofty and once rarely spoken outside exhibition corridors or British parishes, has become a fashionable code word among the aesthetically minded, who seem to paste it onto any activity that involves culling and selecting. In more print-centric times, the term of art was “edit” — as in a boutique edits its dress collections carefully. But now, among designers, disc jockeys, club promoters, bloggers and thrift-store owners, curate is code for “I have a discerning eye and great taste.” Or more to the point, “I belong.”

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“The Word ‘Curate’ No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowd,” NYTimes.com

(l-r) Jules de Balincourt, [Behind Masks] Bruce High Quality Foundation, Nina Chanel Abney, Tim Barber;Kyle Thurman, Matt Moravec; Pati Hertling, Aurel Schmidt, Julia Chiang

Article over on Paper Mag

Final projected presentation.

Please excuse the dire layout I produced, but after having to write and re-write half the information it just became such a chore.

Presentation was ok, however, getting there was such a mission. The core concept is flawed no matter how much I tried to work backwards and produce one and major differences over marketing and who would be invited. I felt that it should be a mix of both the public and direct invites to industry etc. such as Mother London and those with an existing interest in the work exhibited.

Never mind it is all done now. From here I can focus on my own events - more guerilla, pop-up style and I’m currently applying to some internships with galleries and spaces in LA.