In his article titled "The Bias of the World: Curating After Szeemann & Hopps," David Levi Strauss discusses the definition of "curator," and puts the emphasis on how Herald Szeeman and Walter Hopps - the two sui generis architects of the curatorial practices of today - contributed to the redefining of the word, and how they challenged the structure and questioning of the curatorial works in contemporary art scene. New curators should take risks in curatorial work, Strauss argues. “The nice thing about utopias is precisely that they fail," Szeeman opines, "For me failure is a poetic dimension of art."
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(Thanks to Alpin for the link.)
