Caring in Curating. Transforming Art History: Possibilities and Limits in Practice and Theory

Abstract

Although aware of a growing bibliography grounded in feminist theory on the necessity of an ethics of care, prior to reading Radicalizing Care, I had never considered its application to curatorial activity. As it happens, care and curating share at least one etymological ancestor in the Latin curare, “to care for”, “to look after”, “to cure” and “to heal”. But where this was once limited to the institutional maintenance and exhibition of art objects by museum professionals, curatorial activit..