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Courses - Spring 2025
ARTH
Art History & Archaeology Department Site
Open Seats as of
01/02/2025 at 10:30 PM
ARTH389W
Special Topics in Art History and Archaeology; Museum and Gallery Communications
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
Questions about care (care for others, self-care, care for tradition, and so forth) have become particularly ubiquitous in recent years. Informed by this renewed urgency to the topic of care, this course returns to the question of curation as a matter-fundamentally-of care. What are the social implications of art, and the presentation and interpretation of art, construed primarily as 'taking care'? What structures and protocols help facilitate care, and how can we ensure that care does not preclude social critique and criticism? How do issues of wellbeing and sickness inform interpretations and framings of (contemporary) art? What modes of curating can best 'take care' of artists and communities, and their artistic creations?