Curators

World view: Adriano Pedrosa, the curator of the 2024 Venice Biennale, discusses his show ‘Foreigners Everywhere’

The Brazilian curator, who is committed to highlighting the art of the Global South, explains his thinking behind the most diverse Venice Biennale exhibition ever

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Curator Naomi Beckwith awarded the $50,000 David C. Driskell Prize

The Guggenheim curator is being recognised for her outstanding contribution to the field of African American art

Tate Modern appoints two new curators in charge of Asia-Pacific art

The hires have been supported by the London-based non-profit Asymmetry Art Foundation

The best works at Frieze New York, as chosen by curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

The California curator favours challenging media and juxtaposition in works that capture the present

Curators come together at Expo Chicago to talk care

The fair's forum for curators this year will look not only at issues related to the care of objects, but also caring for staff, visitors, communities and more

A brush withinterview

From an Aboriginal memorial site to the music of Nina Simone: curator Beatrice Gralton on her greatest influences

Senior curator at Australia's Art Gallery of New South Wales discusses her podcast recommendations and her multi-genre music playlist

Art dealer weighs in on 'upside down' Mondrian painting: 'It looks like a Venetian blind that is pulled up'

News that a German museum has been hanging work “the wrong way” for 75 years has sparked debate about whether the artist would have even cared

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A topsy-turvy world: five artworks that have been hung upside down by curators

From Mondrian to Rothko, when it comes to hanging a painting, museums don't always get things right first (or even second) time

The seven best Latin American works at Art Basel Miami Beach

Laura Hakel, the curator of the Fundación Ama Amoedo in Uruguay, chooses her favourite contemporary pieces

Tate veterans launch free—and paid—curating course, aimed at those from less-affluent backgrounds

Students of the one-year New Curators programme will cover all aspects of the profession and get the chance to organise a major show at South London Gallery

Canada's National Gallery abruptly lays off four senior staff, including chief curator and Indigenous art curator

In an internal memo to staff, the museum's interim director wrote that the sudden changes were made "to better align the gallery’s leadership team with the organisation’s new strategic plan"

Fulya Erdemci, the Turkish curator and former director of the Istanbul Biennial, has died

She will be remembered for her commitment to exploring the relationship between public space and contemporary art

Musicals to motherhood: the Serpentine Galleries' Lucia Pietroiusti on her greatest influences

The curator tell us about her favourite books, television shows and artists

Art Fund to help curators from UK's regional museums to visit London Gallery Weekend

Eighteen institutions from Aberdeen to St Ives have been granted funds to help with travel and accommodation

Kyiv museum curators bravely criticise war by telling stories of its collection's historic objects

Online articles by staff at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine show how items resonate with the war-torn country

A world of possibility: Cecilia Alemani, the curator of the 2022 Venice Biennale, discusses the show

The Italian curator, who has organised exhibitions and events throughout the world, reveals the thinking behind her female-dominated exhibition The Milk of Dreams

German museums offer curator jobs to Ukrainian and Russian refugees

Berlin-based Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation is supporting roles for a one-year period

Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art brings in new curatorial leadership

René Morales of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and Jamillah James of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will fill key vacancies at the MCA

Achim Borchardt-Hume (1965-2021): an appreciation

The untimely death of the distinguished Tate Modern curator, who died last week at the age of 56, "leaves an enormous gap", writes former Tate director Nicholas Serota

US collectors aim to give Indigenous Australian curators 'a seat at the table' with fundraising sale of $1.5m Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri painting

L. John and Barbara Wilkerson are selling Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya via Melbourne gallery to fund new arts leadership education programme in the US

National Gallery of Art recruits the first woman and person of colour to serve as its chief curator

As the museum commits itself to diversity, E. Carmen Ramos, a curator of Latino art, will be “the principal architect of the visitor experience”

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Curator Meg Onli wins inaugural prize aimed at advancing racial equity in the arts

The $75,000 Figure Skating Prize will be awarded annually to a Black artist, curator or scholar

British Museum hires curator to research history of its collection, also covering contested objects such as the Parthenon Marbles

"Issues such as the role of the slave trade and empire… will be relevant to some of the research undertaken," a museum spokeswoman says

'Constantly curious, uninterested in the market-led view': pioneering curator and writer Guy Brett has died, aged 78

His influential texts and exhibitions looked beyond Europe and the US to art from Latin America and Asia

Tate suspends curator for publicly criticising its decision to delay Guston show

Mark Godfrey has been disciplined after posting a long statement on his Instagram account describing postponement as "extremely patronising to viewers"

Wanted—curator of the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale (who will work for £12,500)

Hong Kong-based data analytics chief Shane Akeroyd will sponsor the associate curator post for a ten-year period

How to organise a biennial in the Covid era

Bangkok Art Biennale director on grappling with coronavirus constraints and displaying "sensitive" works