Dan Fox: “International Curator” – Serious Business
Posted in Internationalism, Presentism on 10. Mar, 2009
Article by Dan Fox in Frieze Magazine found via Tomorrow Museum. It’s worth the read.
For instance, ‘art-speak’ may have an air of authority but often masks vagueness, perpetuates outmoded ideas or simply confuses communication; the exquisite architecture of a commercial gallery may suggest financial propriety but glosses over work sold cash-in-hand and shipped on an Easyjet flight in a gallery employee’s hand-luggage, while the dynamic image of an ‘international curator’ plying their labour in Stockholm one day and Cairo the next doesn’t speak of the stomach ulcer caused by the daily economic worries of their precarious freelance existence.
