This course explores the history of curating and what it has meant for artists, curators, critics, and other cultural figures to mobilize art as a means to express or enact care. We will explore collective, individual, and institutional modes of caring--for materials, for cultural objects, and for people. We will also investigate some of the key ways that social relationships, such as friendship and comradeship, shape the ideologies and strategies of curating, and inform the activist possibilities of curating art.