"There are occasionally lines that have to be drawn, not only in the sand but also in the bedrock on issues of curatorial integrity," said Harold Holzer, vice president for communications at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In an interview yesterday, Mr. de Montebello said that the issue was curatorial integrity.
Each, he says, presents "a new learning curve" with its own set of issues, challenges and curatorial priorities.
"Amis applies his comic timing, his perfect pitch and his curatorial eye to some of the burning issues of our time," A. O. Scott wrote here last year.
Selecting by ethnicity is "a curatorial artifact, a device to reflect and speculate on the issues facing Chicano artists today".
TK: How does your curatorial practice shed light on the socio-cultural and political issues facing your country and the region?
At Otis, he launched an innovative curriculum in which students use arts and design skills to tackle social issues — which sounds quite similar to MICA's Master of Fine Arts in Curatorial Practice.
E.S.: Matt Evans, a curatorial assistant at MoMA PS1 who helped us launch our second issue there, described it to me in a way I hadn't though of before that's really interesting.
The curatorial process has been to think about that collection and the themes and issues it raises.
Divisions over a proposed expansion and unhappiness among the curatorial staff with the leadership provided by the Whitney's director, Thomas N. Armstrong III, were contentious issues.
The curatorial commentary of contextualizing these works within the institution's mission of engagement on social issues recasts their subjects with a more political trajectory.
