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PEI publishes critical writing on curatorial practice and fosters curatorial discourse as a service to the community and the field.

Audience Engagement Curatorial Roundtable Videos: Adam Lerner & Mark Allen

Watch excerpts from the Q&A segment of an audience engagement roundtable featuring Adam Lerner, Director and Chief Animator in the Department of Structures and Fictions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, and Mark Allen, Executive Director of Machine Project, Los Angeles. This event was held on August 3, 2010 at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and was hosted by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.

Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative and Moore College of Art & Design Present: Curatorial Conversations

Curatorial Conversations
Curating and Activism: An International Panel

Through a series of paired conversations with an international roster of distinguished panelists including artists, curators, educators, scholars and arts administrators, these Curatorial Conversations, co-organized by The Galleries and Moore’s BFA in Curatorial Studies major, discuss the creative nexus between curating and a variety of other societal mandates such as education and activism.

The entire symposium is archived and can be found here. >

Questions of Practice: What Makes a Great Exhibition?

This volume aims to stimulate thought about how overarching issues meet-on-the-ground practicalities. What Makes a Great Exhibition? is vital reading for arts professionals, art and curatorial studies students, art historians, practicing artists, and anyone curious about exhibition-making today.

Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility

Proceedings from a symposium addressing the state of current curatorial practice organized by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.

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