The document discusses curating a collection and provides guidance on critically examining pieces in a collection. It advises researching the artist, imagery, references, and history of the genre to better understand each piece. Questions are posed about what each piece represents, who it was created for and by, and how viewers should interpret it based on their own perspective and experience. Examples of pieces by artists like Banksy, AdBusters, and Wayne White are listed to demonstrate works that could benefit from deeper analysis.

1. CURATING A COLLECTION

2. - Critical Reading
- Hermeneutics: How we read and
interpret “texts”
- Not at face value, but deeper
examination
- Reinterpret, reconstruct for improved
clarity and readability
- Possible ambiguities, flaws, implicit
messages, biases

3. - How to address the piece, its location, its
purpose on campus, within this collection, in
relation to you or another body of people…
- But to understand the piece, you need to
understand the artist, the iconography, the
imagery, references, the ongoing history of
the genre (see 13 Ways…)àRESEARCH!
- Can’t be critical without some knowledge and
research

4. What is it?
Where is it? Why?
What is it saying?
How is it used?
For whom was it created?
For whom does it exist?
Who is represented?
How are they represented?
Who is doing the telling?The
hearing?
What do you see?
What can you touch?
What do you feel?
What do you think?
Where are you?

5. Banksy, Jesus Christ with Shopping Bags

6. Banksy, Napalm

7. AdBusters

8. Wayne White, Beauty is Embarrassin’

9. Wayne White, your Lameass Theory

10. Fred Wilson, Cabinet Making