August 2011
1 post
Onwards and upwards...
This blog formed part of a curation elective I did in my second year of university. I have now graduated with a BA (Hons) in graphic design and from my initial musings and research into curation and galleries I’m now the manager for an independent graphic design gallery in London.
I wont be actively updating this blog and further musings and information about galleries, echibitions and...
May 2010
1 post
A Casual Blog by Ooga Booga...: NOW OPEN! →
OHWOW Book Club 227 Waverly Place New York, NY 10014
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…
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
4 posts
Apartment Galleries, Dossier, by the talented... →
Golden Age →
Another curated bookstore and exhibition space in Chicago this time. I think I’m in love.
The New Generation of Museum Curators →
Just another interesting curation article.
February 2010
3 posts
Digital curator →
Curate →
“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...
HELP...
So I am currently planning my escape and need a little bit of help.
I’m looking for small, independent galleries and publishers to intern with, in both New York and LA, do you know of any?
I want to apply to as many places as possible.
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January 2010
73 posts
Presentation →
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...
Attempt at examining the intention and objectives
Yep will have wound a lot of you up during meeting, I’m neurotically attentive to detail and flaws in logic.
Emergence
01/03/2010
Soho Theatre - Basement Bar
Soho Theatre Company Ltd, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE
A one night event/exhibition centered around interaction.
The proposed exhibition did not come directly formed at this point, but was rather moulded from Megan’s...
Watchhttp://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html
Curation Elective Evaluation
I really am no good at writing evaluations, but here we go…
Having worked in a purely commercial gallery for the past year, selling artists prints and frames, I wanted to learn more about galleries and curation from a more art and design perspective. The effects of the selection and arrangement of artwork and objects, and how this can give rise to new interpretations and inform further...
Presentation Plan
1. Overview of concept and purpose.
Statement of intent.
Personal and audience objectives.
2. Slides and documentation of works to be exhibited
High quality, and where possible perhaps images of the piece exhibited previously, to provide an impression of how it works in the context of an exhibition.
Description of pieces: Title, medium, process, sizes, dates, No. of pieces, price range if for...
Group Notes...
Group = Kate, Naomi, Hannah, Megan & Heidi (Graphics, Illustration, Painting, Photography)
Possible concept for exhibition in space
A number of group members would like to include their own work for exhibition. Personally I would not, unless it was needed. Interested in PR, Marketing and promotion side of things.
Show and tell images etc -
Decadence
Alexy Brodovitch
Mixed Media
Deanne...
Can Curation Save Media? →
I had somehow missed this article on the wider implications and usage of curation in the domain of publishing. It is definitely something that I can see growing in line with multi-channel publishing and the rise of Kindle and similar new technologies.
In the same line of thought check out Ben Hammersley’s musings on this subject from a design standpoint.
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Booksellers... →
List of some of the best publishers, shops and champions of magnificent books and zines. Worth bearing in mind for Reading Room project if it ever gets off the ground.
Writing a proposal, Articles and help
A Plan for a Successful Exhibition Submission
by Kristen Scholfield-Sweet
Chair, Exhibitions Selection Committee
As Chairperson of the Exhibition Selection Committee for the Campbell River Art Gallery, I look at fifty to seventy exhibition proposals, or more, a year. Those artists, of all levels of experience and professionalism, are vying for four or five exhibition spaces on the Gallery’s...
Areas to research.
From this course I have learnt that I don’t really know much about curation in general and have a sparse knowledge of art history. Having never had any classes in art history and contextual studies lessons that involved the tutor talking about crack and loosely going over McLuhan’s ‘medium is the message’, I really need to start doing some research. I had thought that this...
Nomenus Quarterly →
Nomenus Quarterly is a collaborative publication and platform, working with artists of all mediums and disciplines within the worlds of fine-art and fashion. It is published online four times per year, and additionally as a series of one of a kind objects and hand made prints, available for purchase at a small selection of boutiques, book stores and museums internationally. Nomenus Quarterly was...
This Long Century →
THIS LONG CENTURY is an ever-evolving collection of personal insights from artists, authors, filmmakers, musicians and cultural icons the world over. Bringing together such intimate work as sketchbooks, personal memorabilia, annotated typescripts, short essays, home movies and near impossible to find archival work, THIS LONG CENTURY serves as a direct line to the contributers themselves.
Ellen Lupton on Curating Design
p117 -131, Design Dialogues by Steven Heller and Elinor Pettit.
How would you describe your mission as the curator of contemporary design?
My goal is to do exhibitions that expand the design community’s own knowledge and understanding of itself and that also speak to the general public about the role and value of design in their lives.
Working in a national museum you have these two...
Intelligent Naivety, Download →
Culture Label produced a nice little booklet ‘looking at what exactly cultural entrepreneurship and income generation means for museums and cultural organisations.’ A pdf. of the book and further little fact sheets can be downloaded from the above link. It’s really useful for learning a bit more about funding, co-creation and economic factors that go into not only institutions...
Budgets and Fundraising
11/12/09
Worksheet from Emily Druiff
Itemising your budget will aid you in reaching your total Expenditure for your project and therefore how much Income you will need to secure. Make sure your Total Income matches your Total Expenditure.
INCOME
Grants secured from Public Funders, ie: Lottery, Arts Council, Local Authority.
Sponsorship secured from Private Funders, ie: Sony, UBS.
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