Overall, the huge success of the enterprise rests less, I would argue, on traditional curatorial values such as the creation, maintenance and display of the canonical, than on reliably offering the sort of wow factor that other large-scale tourist attractions provide.
Vern Blosum's straightforward paintings of flowers and Chadwick Rantanen's hanging animatronic turkeys seem like a strange pairing for an art fair section that values curatorial cohesion, but there was a lot more under the surface at ESSEX STREET's Art Basel booth.
But while curators may instinctively balk at the anything-goes ethos of the Web, new-media advocates argue that Web participation can actually enhance the value of curatorial judgment.
In contrast, a curatorial perspective measures the artistic value and merit of an artwork, independent of its price, through an analysis of art historical trends and the exercise of aesthetic judgments.
Asia Now is first and foremost a curatorial project focused more on the value of the Asian art scene (its artists) than its market value only.
In taking a geographical step away from familiar urban settings and redefining the location of "culture," suburban centers are doing a signal service; but the real measure of their value lies in their individual curatorial abilities.
The trick, in curatorial terms, she stresses, is to avoid making value judgments and saying whether something is good or bad art, entirely unlike the Victorian principle which she, none the less, admits to a fondness for.
But even if hypernetworks are offering routes to solidarity, without reflecting on the club space's tendency to support what are essentially market-driven and divisive distinctions of taste, value and quality, the professional and curatorial DJ figure will continue to undermine the possibility of a truly intersectional dancefloor.
So the challenge for her was "the suspension of judgment -- not curatorial or aesthetic judgment -- but the suspension of value judgment".
Greenpeace alleges that BP exerted influence over the London museum, leading to "curatorial decisions on exhibitions that held strategic political and commercial value for BP".
