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Due Date: TBA
Background Information
Your Assignment
As co-curator of temporary exhibitions at ........................, you are responsible for planning an upcoming exhibition
for the Spring.
1. Produce a model of the exhibition space with the selected artworks mounted/ displayed.
2. Produce the following:
an exhibition catalogue
promotional materials (e.g. brochures)
educational plan
Objectives:
Key Concepts
Galleries/ Museums
History and evolution of the modern gallery/ museum
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Types of galleries/ museums and their purposes
-public vs. commercial
Temporary vs. Permanent Exhibitions
-collections
Who's who in the gallery
-curatorial staff,
Responsibility of public galleries to the tax payers
-Sensation-controversy
The context of the Gallery space
The Business of the Gallery
-selling tickets and making money
How to display artwork
-hanging, mounting, information
Japanese Art
What is meant by Japanese Art?
-Can art made outside of Japan be considered Japanese?
-Can art made in Japan by foreign people be considered Japanese?
-Does it need to follow long established traditions?
Suggested Themes for Your Exhibition
Kansai based Artists
Foreign artists trained in traditional Japanese arts
Japanese artists working outside of Japan
Japanese artists under 30
Old and New
Retrospective (one well-established significant artist)
Up and Coming (young, not yet established)
Focus on a given media (e.g. Painting in Japan, Video art in Japan)
Required Reading
Mary Anne Staniszewski, Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
Cynthia Freeland, But is it Art?
Links to help you get started
Assessment:
Criterion P Independent Research
-visit different types of galleries (public, commercial)
-research and visit exhibitions of Japanese art in other galleries
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Criterion Q Critical Research
-accompanying materials that provide analysis of the exhibition (in the form of an exhibition catalogue)
Criterion R Contextual Research
-how you are able to handle and interpret what is meant by Japanese art
Criterion S Visual Research
-collecting reproduction of artworks for your exhibition
-how to arrange the artworks
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