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Curatorial Hub Curatorial Hub: ICI Annual Summer Book Sale

Get your hands on ICI’s past and rare exhibition catalogues as well as current publications.

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The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models

What do museums of contemporary art stand for today? The last two decades has seen an unimaginable diversification of the museum as a place for exhibiting art and telling histories, producing innovative education models, promoting international collaborations, forming alternative archives, and facilitating new productions.

Presented by the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Independent Curators International, and the New Museum.

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The Critical Edge of Curating

Curators from around the world discuss critical issues in their practice today, examining the possible impact of exhibitions and related curatorial activities on cultural and social change.

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ICI CONVERSATIONS NYSE: Annual Dinner

EILEEN and MICHAEL COHEN with special guest RICHARD ARMSTRONG

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Curatorial Intensive

The Curatorial Intensive is ICI’s short-term, low-cost training program that offers curators the chance to develop their exhibition ideas and make connections to leaders in the field, providing the opportunity to forge new international networks through peer-group education. The Curatorial Intensive takes place twice annually in New York, and in other locations in conjunction with institutional partners worldwide.

Research

  • Interviews: Interview with Doryun Chong, Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Award recipient

    Doryun Chong, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, is the recipient of the first Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Award. This award has been inaugurated to reflect ICI’s commitment to supporting international curators early in their careers who have shown exceptional creativity and prescience in their exhibition-making, research, and related writing. This interview with Chong by ICI’s Executive Director Kate Fowle focuses on his practice to date from his academic training and how he got into exhibition-making to his recent move to MoMA. In the interview, Chong analyzes what it means for him to be an international curator today, discussing in depth his research methodologies and the complex processes of translation he undertakes in his exhibitions with artists like Tetsumi Kudo, Huang Yong Ping, and Sean Snyder. Ultimately his practice is grounded in an understanding that “context is rarely singular or an aggregation of multiples, but almost always syncretic, interpenetrating, and hybrid, and and that by understanding that, a curator could potentially also help an artist extend his or her practice as a consequence.”

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  • Fellowship: Beca Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros para Viajes de Investigación en Centroamérica y el Caribe

    La Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros e Independent Curators International (ICI) colaboran creando una nueva oportunidad para curadores: la Beca Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros para viajes de investigación curatorial en Centroamérica y el Caribe.

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  • Fellowship: The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean

    The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Independent Curators International (ICI) are glad to collaborate on a new opportunity for curators: The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.

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