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The Design Isn’t Firm: John Rapko Interrogates Curators Language

A story by

Chad Rossouw

on the 9th of July 2015. This should take you < 1 minute to read.

John Rapko asks why curators make so little sense without resorting to scathing attacks on artspeak.

So one way of seeing what misfires so badly in the Curator’s talk is to note that it typically occurs in the absence of the works. The Curator imagines that she addresses the sense of historical necessity and possibility, but the talk latches onto nothing.

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