i've had it in the back of my head for awhile now that museum curation could be really cool. it's usually the first thing i can think of when people ask me what i could do with an mfa. to other people, curation constitutes a career. and it sounds a lot better than "living in a cardboard box."
it dates back to a moment i had at the national gallery when i was a senior in high school. (and set on going to georgetown...) after that, seeing massive change at the mca in chicago did it for me. (nothing can match seeing huge vinyl letters on three story white wall like that.) and the ah-ha feeling followed me to mica, where i hated the walters art museum until, quite literally, the light bulb went off and i realized that even though i wasn't interested in the content, i could spend hours admiring how it was composed.
but it has been some time since i've seen something in a gallery that made me think differently again about how that space could be used. i got my aiga newsletter the other day (because i'm a fancy shmancy student member now!) and followed the link to their annual design exhibition. from what i could gather, every piece of the exhibition mounting is made to have a life after the show ends, with the new york organization publicolor. now that, i thought, is clever.
check out the exhibition slideshow for more pictures. (and while you're at it, check out the people who designed it, too.)
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