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By Andrew Russeth 2/13 10:30am

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Szeemann. (Courtesy Ingeborg Lüscher/Getty Research Institute)

Getty Celebrates Storied Curator Harald Szeemann in New Video

The next time you have 10 minutes to spare, take a look at the brief and wonderful video below that the Getty Research Institute has put out about the legendary Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, who was responsible for shows like the breakout classic of post-minimalism “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form” at Germany’s Kunsthalle Bern and Documenta 5, in Kassel, Germany in 1972. (And, whoa! Ubuweb has the whole catalogue for the former online.) Read More

By Andrew Russeth 8/20/12 12:36pm

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Obrist and Yoko Ono. (Courtesy Getty Images)

Hans Ulrich Obrist Slams ‘Fly-In, Fly-Out Curating’

Over in the Financial Times, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, has a short article in which he urges curators “to shape exhibitions as long-duration projects and to consider issues of sustainability and legacy.” He sets up as a choice example a performance of John Cage’s 1987 ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) piece currently underway in Halberstadt, Germany, which is scheduled to last for 639 years. (It started Sept. 5, 2001.) Read More