Visitor numbers alone are no way to judge the success of a show, says Caroline Campbell, the National Gallery's head of curatorial.
The Chinese exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, which opened June 1 and runs through Nov. 24, has been organized by Wang Chunchen, head of curatorial research at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing.
Although the National Gallery research team, headed by Nancy Yeide, head of curatorial records, determined that a Snyders was taken from the Stern collection, there were still doubts as to whether the Snyders in the National Gallery was the one that ended up in the Jeu de Paume.
"His later work is so famous, particularly that signature image of the lion" from "The Lion and the Mouse," said Bartholomew Bland, 38, head of the curatorial department at the Hudson River Museum, which will capitalize on Mr. Pinkney's proximity with expanded offerings, including visits and talks by Mr. Pinkney and items from his studio.
Hou Hanru, who was head of the curatorial team in 2000, described that year as a time when artists were producing works under abnormal conditions: there were very few galleries in the city, museums were still primarily showing traditional art, and the art market had not yet been established.
Curators for the program's 2017 edition are Havilah and Carriageworks curator Nina Miall, AGNSW's contemporary art curator, Anneke Jaspers, and the head curator of Australian art, Wayne Tunnicliffe, and MCA's director of curatorial and digital, Blair French.
Since Barr's time, real power at the museum has been shared by two groups: the board of trustees and heads of the six curatorial departments Barr established: painting and sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, architecture and design, and film… Lowry did things differently, calling a lot of meetings, and eroding the boundaries between the departments.
That at-bat scrunch shrivelled the strike zone to the size of a Kleenex; his furrowy, imperious frown, twisting head, and curatorial glare at each passing pitch turned the home-plate ump's calls his way.
"It's a little bit of curatorial disease," he said.
It is an unusual (and welcome) bit of curatorial frankness.
What happens is a form of curatorial abdication.
