Institute of Curiosity & Curating Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Have you ever wanted to know more about curating? What is it? Who does it? And why? Are you considering a career in curating? Then we are here to help.

The Institute of Curiosity & Curating is presented by Charlie Levine, an independent curator who has worked on projects such as ITV Creates.

She is going to explore in this first season what inspired her to become a curator as well as delving into curatorial history.

Welcome to the Institute of Curiosity & Curating podcast. For this first episode we discover the origins of curating from the word to how museums began. Join our host, Charlie Levine, as she delves into details about how curating began.

Episode 2 delves into details about how Marcel Duchamp helped 'invent' curating as we understand it today. Our host, Charlie Levine, is also joined by artist, curator & educationalist, john ros. They discuss thoughts around curating, working site-responsively, and surrealism. 

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Francis M. Naumann 

Using Walls, Floors & Ceilings 

Using Walls Exhibition 

Welcome to the Institute of Curiosity & Curating podcast. For this third episode we discuss bringing the domestic into curating, and curating into the home. Join our host, Charlie Levine, as she talks about Katherine Sophie Dreier followed by an interview with artist, Vishwa Shroff, and architect, Katsushi Goto. The three discuss their joint project, SqW:Lab, and their thoughts on art and the domestic. 

Links:

https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/finding-aids/ArtLendingf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1690884917207914&usg=AOvVaw0FW2C9wT6mcUIPpKXfSStt 

Welcome to the Institute of Curiosity & Curating podcast's fourth episode. Join our host, Charlie Levine, as she talks about Peggy Guggenheim and her gallery, The Art of This Century, followed by an interview with Adam Nathaniel Furman. 

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Frederick Kiesler's book 

Adam Nathaniel Furman

Welcome to the fifth episode of Institute of Curiosity & Curating podcast. Today our host, Charlie Levine, creates a list of some of the key curatorial moments from the late 1920s to the 1950s, then reflecting on architect, Lina Bo Bardi, and her innovative display design for MASP in Sao Paulo. 

After this we are joined by artist, Tash Kahn, who visited MASP with Charlie. They discuss what happens when artwork is stolen, the trace and their visit to Brazil.

Links:

https://www.themodernistsguidetococktails.com/post/lina-bo-bardi-stalinist-anti-feminist-architect

https://www.archdaily.com/537063/ad-classics-sao-paulo-museum-of-art-masp-lina-bo-bardi

https://stedelijkstudies.com/journal/reenactment-lina-bo-bardis-display-sao-paulo-museum-art-1968-2015/#_edn33

Welcome to the Institute of Curiosity & Curating podcast's sixth episode. Join our host, Charlie Levine, as she talks about curators Willem Sandberg and Harald Szeemann and how they changed the museum and curating forever. That is followed by an interview with independent curator, Veeranganakumari Solanki. 

Links:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/30/willem-sandberg-the-rebellious-type

https://elephant.art/rise-rise-celebrity-curator/

https://magazine.artland.com/shows-that-made-contemporary-art-history-live-in-your-head-when-attitudes-become-form/

https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/harald-szeemann-grandfather-a-pioneer-like-us/ 

Welcome to the Institute of Curiosity & Curating podcast's penultimate episode in our first series. Join our host, Charlie Levine, as she talks about Jermayne MacAgy and the infamous exhibition, 'An Exhibit' at the ICA in 1957. That is followed by a conversation with Victoria Patrick. 

Links:

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/macagy-jermayne-virginia

https://guardianlv.com/2014/02/thomas-carr-howe-joined-the-ranks-of-monuments-men/

https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/taac1-b/ 

Welcome to the final episode of Season 1 of the Institute of Curiosity & Curating Podcast. To conclude this season host, Charlie Levine, discusses André Malraux’s seminal book, Museum Without Walls. After which she speaks to curator, Tamsin Silvey. 

Links:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/andre-malraux-museum-without-walls/

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203991534-34/postmodernism-museum-without-walls-rosalind-krauss

https://neatlyart.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/andre-malraux-chez-lui-maurice-jarnoux-over-the-last/

Welcome back to Institute of Curiosity & Curating podcast with Charlie Levine, a podcast where we ask 'what is curating?' Here's a little insight into what you can expect and why in Series 2: After Podcasts... 

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