Curation
The judgment behind selecting, sequencing, and presenting work to an audience. Good curation is often invisible, felt only as a sense that everything in the room belongs there.
The exhibit everyone praised on the way out is rarely the one they remember
Exit surveys measure enjoyment on the day of a visit. What actually stays with someone a year later often looks quite different from what they praised leaving.
The curator’s new job is partly a director’s job
As exhibits lean on sound, light, and pacing, curatorial work is starting to overlap with film and theater direction more than archival scholarship.
What a projection can do that a plaque cannot
A short comparison of two ways to explain an artifact’s history, and why one keeps visitors moving while the other makes them stop.
A good street market is harder to plan than it looks
A market feels effortless when it works — stalls, noise, people moving slowly. Almost none of that happens by accident, and most planned attempts to recreate it feel flat.