"Do curators think in ways that are unique to their profession? Can curatorial thought be distinguished from the thinking processes within the myriad of closely related practices - especially art criticism, art history and art making - and from curating within other kinds of museum or display spaces, public and private?"
In his new ICI publication, Thinking Contemporary Curating, Terry Smith offers an in-depth analysis of the volatile territory of international curatorial practice and the thinking - or insight - that underpins it. He describes how today curators take on roles beyond exhibition making, to include reimagining museums; writing the history of curating; creating discursive platforms and undertaking social or political activism, as well as rethinking spectatorship.
