A History of Curating—Past and Present

Given all the new publications dealing with things curatorial, even though these certainly do not exhaustively represent the current discourse in all its heterogeneity, we get the impression that the curator’s role displays a history which, until the 1990s, was dominated by a successive line of pioneering figures.Over these past 25 years, the historiographical situation has changed. This change is not due solely to the appearance of female curators, but also and above all to the quantitative ..