Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Artworld and Everything Else with David Balzer, Ben Davis, Orit Gat, David Everitt Howe and Zoë Salditch

Please join us to celebrate the publication of David Balzer’s new book Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else (Coach House Books/Pluto Press) at Cabinet Magazine’s event space in Brooklyn. The evening will include a discussion with Balzer and Ben Davis, Orit Gat, David Everitt Howe, and Zoë Salditch as well as drinks and conversation.

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS

DAVID BALZER
is the author of Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else. He has contributed to publications including The Believer, Modern Painters, ARTnews, Camera Austria, Artforum.com and Capital New York, and is the author of Contrivances, a short-fiction collection. Balzer was born in Winnipeg and currently lives in Toronto, where he is Associate Editor at Canadian Art magazine.

BEN DAVIS
is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class. Currently the National Art Critic for artnet News, his writings have also appeared in Adbusters,Artinfo.com, Art Papers, C Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Slate.com, The Village Voice, and many others. Davis is the critic in residence at Montclair State University.

ORIT GAT
is a writer based in New York. She writes about contemporary art, publishing, internet culture, and different meeting points between these things. Her writing is published regularly on Rhizome, where she is a contributing editor, and has appeared in Frieze, ArtReview, The White Review, Art Agenda, The Brooklyn Rail, Spike Art Quarterly, Review 31, LEAP, and Modern Painters, where she was senior editor until 2013. She is currently the managing editor of WdW Review and the online art editor at BOMB magazine. 

DAVID EVERITT HOWE
is a Brooklyn-based independent critic and curator. He has recently curated performances, exhibitions and screenings at Abrons Arts Center, MoMA PS1 and Performa, among others. Howe’s writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Art Papers, Art in America, Flash Art International, Modern Painters, Paper Monument,Frieze, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Afterall and ArtReview, where he is a contributing editor. He is a Curatorial Advisor for Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation; Curatorial/Development Associate at PARTICIPANT INC; and a curator at NYPAC.

ZOË SALDITCH
is a curator and community organizer and the Director of Artist Relations at Electric Objects. She's spent her entire career working at the intersection of art and technology at NYC-based non-profits Eyebeam and Rhizome at the New Museum. You can read her barely curated thoughts to the void @zoesalditch on Twitter.

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