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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Steven Lubar, “Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Description: In Steven Lubar’s latest book Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Harvard University Press, 2017), Steven gets to the heart of what makes museums so interesting to both appreciate and critique. For him, the complex nature of the museum lies in the balancing act a curator and other museum staff must strike in both displaying a collection and making it open, accessible and useful while resisting the temptation to encourage or even force a certain way of looking or behaving among visitors.
Structured along the four chapters collect, preserve, display and use, Steve tells the his...