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        The Institution and Its Intentions

        The Institution and Its Intentions

        The Institution and Its Intentions

        Edited by Bettina Steinbrügge

        ISBN: 9781915609823

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 14, 2026

        On the place, role, and future of cultural institutions in the twenty-first century.
        Letterlocking

        Letterlocking

        Letterlocking

        The Hidden History of the Letter

        by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith

        With the Unlocking History Research Group

        ISBN: 9780262049276

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 4, 2025

        The rich history of a centuries-old document security technology—folding and securing a letter into its own envelope for delivery—and a comprehensive guide to learning how to make your own locked letters.
        Why I Do What I Do

        Why I Do What I Do

        Why I Do What I Do

        Global Curators Speak

        Edited by Steven Henry Madoff

        ISBN: 9781915609526

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: October 22, 2024

        Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.
        Picture-Work

        Picture-Work

        Picture-Work

        How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy

        by Diana Kamin

        ISBN: 9780262547000

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 21, 2023

        How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture.
        Picture Research

        Picture Research

        Picture Research

        The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization

        by Nina Lager Vestberg

        ISBN: 9780262045315

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 6, 2023

        An intimate foray into the invisible work that made it possible for pictures to circulate in print and online from the 1830s to the 2010s.
        Postsensual Aesthetics

        Postsensual Aesthetics

        Postsensual Aesthetics

        On the Logic of the Curatorial

        by James Voorhies

        ISBN: 9780262047609

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 28, 2023

        Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics.
        The Curatorial Condition

        The Curatorial Condition

        The Curatorial Condition

        by Beatrice von Bismarck

        ISBN: 9783956795343

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 2022

        An analysis of the relations created by the curatorial—relations that also constitute it.
        Artistic Ecologies

        Artistic Ecologies

        Artistic Ecologies

        New Compasses and Tools

        Edited by Emily Pethick, Pablo Martínez and What, How & for Whom/WHW

        ISBN: 9783956796333

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 2022

        An inquiry into the current ways of knowing, their ramifications, and institutional and noninstitutional artistic practices that provide channels for education from below.
        Unannounced Voices

        Unannounced Voices

        Unannounced Voices

        Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions

        by Zdenka Badovinac

        ISBN: 9783956795848

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 2022

        Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised.
        Curating the Complex and the Open Strike

        Curating the Complex and the Open Strike

        Curating the Complex and the Open Strike

        by Terry Smith

        Foreword by Steven Henry Madoff

        ISBN: 9783956795312

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: May 3, 2022

        An analysis of the contexts in which curating takes place: why curate art these days and in the name of which interests?
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