Ask a Curator—Keep Your Questions Coming!

August 12, 2009

We’ve really enjoyed receiving so many great questions since we started our Ask a Curator series a couple of months ago. Most of the questions from our first round have been answered (with a couple more answers still in the works—including one tomorrow).

We’re sure you have more questions—whether about the nitty-gritty details of planning exhibitions or installing artworks, about specific works in our collection, or bigger questions about the art and museum world (or anything else you can think of). Ask away in the comments here, on our Facebook page, or reply to us on Twitter (you can even ask us in Spanish—though we’ll answer in English). We’ll collect your questions and over the next few weeks will post responses from our curators.

In case you missed them, here are the questions our curators have answered so far:

Do curators feel pressure to create exhibitions that will impress other curators?

How did we install Richard Serra’s Band and Sequence inside of BCAM?

Do museums install copies of artworks while the originals are on loan elsewhere?

Is there a trend in framing contemporary photography?

How does one become a curator?

Scott Tennent