The Art of Curation
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From art curator to cultural keeper 🔑 Ozi Uduma, University of Michigan
The Art of Curation
03/08/22 • 34 min
“Part of my work is to look at how artists are using their craft to speak to the times that we're living in — everything from climate change to immigration to the everyday human experience. My role is to look at what our museum has historically focused on and, in some regards, attempt to fill in the gaps or expand the conversation.” — Ozi Uduma, University of Michigan
Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan, is part of a four-person, all-female curatorial team responsible for putting on exhibitions for the university museum, including shows like Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism and Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution. Each curator has a regional specialty, such as Asian or African art, while Ozi owns the global lens.
This conversation discusses how the art of curation is connected to the act of cultural stewardship. Ozi thinks beyond the aesthetic value of pieces to how she can champion and protect artists who are changing how we think about social issues and even the history of art itself. Her hope is to give space for curiosity to thrive such that the museum is as essential a campus destination as, say, the library, and as thought-provoking as a piece of art.
Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- A day in the life of this curator
- What a successful exhibition at University of Michigan looks like
- The unique things a curator on a college campus must think about
- Identifying gaps in the way art history is told
- How curators can know what they don’t know
- How to put the ideals of representation into practice
- How Ozi widens her own lens
- Traits necessary to be a successful curator
- What her generation of museum curators is bringing to the discipline
- Ozi’s own curation “speed round”
👋 Say "hi" to Ozi.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Ozi’s curated culture picks from the African continent and diaspora.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the popular social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
Boosting art and photography 🖌 Sabine Stoye, Mastodon
The Art of Curation
07/25/23 • 25 min
“The problem is more to find what one wants to curate because, well, you have to find your way...[Mastodon] is a great place because you have incredible choice and a rich and creative crowd out there.” — Sabine Stoye, Mastodon art and photography curator
You may have heard about a Twitter alternative called Mastodon. The service is a decentralized social network made up of independent servers organized around specific themes, topics or interests. It’s one of the largest platforms in the Fediverse — a space that Flipboard cares deeply about and sees as pivotal to the future of social media.
What’s it like being a curator in this new world? Ask @ViewFinderCurator, aka Sabine Stoye. A linguist with a passion for the arts, Sabine shares why she’s made her curatorial home on Mastodon and what she looks for when boosting artists and photographers on the platform.
Other highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- The Fediverse, explained
- How she thinks about curating on Mastodon
- Juggling identities as a curator
- Why the Fediverse is a good place for curators
- Sabine’s culture picks
👋 Say "hi" to Sabine.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Sabine’s own favorite newsletters and his curated picks.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the world’s first social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
Making the business case for curation 💼 Robyn Kerkhof, Blinkist
The Art of Curation
08/01/23 • 41 min
“Back in the day, curation was mostly a job in museums and art galleries. It took the Spotifys, Twitters and Netflixes of the world to really popularize curation as a valid business need. I’m proud to say that we were amongst the first ones to identify the business need for that discipline.” — Robyn Kerkhof, Blinkist
Curation has long moved out of the ivory tower of the art world. These days, anyone with taste and the will can be a curator. Sometimes curation is automated with a “human in the loop” providing oversight. Sometimes there’s no oversight at all.
However the sausage is made, the goal is usually to get the right content to the right person at the right time. When you make connections like this, the results are powerful.
Robyn Kerkhof, the Director of Content Discovery at Blinkist, knew that a curation function could impact her company’s bottom line, so she made the case for it internally. How did she do it? How did she measure success? And what did she learn along the way?
Other highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- The art of curation at Blinkist
- Mixing AI and human talents
- Balancing personal taste when curating for a brand
- The qualities of the most effective curators
- Robyn’s culture picks
👋 Say "hi" to Robyn.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Robyn’s own favorite culture picks.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the world’s first social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more
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Elevating writers and newsletters 📝 Hannah Ray, Substack
The Art of Curation
08/08/23 • 48 min
“Good writing is simple writing. I think that goes for the curation part, as well. I will try and strip myself from the equation as much as possible. You’re like a spider with your tentacles out everywhere, looking and pulling in things from different reader recommendations, dashboards and things you know about the company, and trying to spin it into something really interesting.” — Hannah Ray, Substack
The firehose of great things to read has only become more overwhelming since Substack came on the scene in 2017. The platform is home to so many excellent newsletters on topics like the history behind today’s politics, inspiring images and ideas, music and culture, and even beloved pets. As of May 2023, Axios reported over 17,000 writers earning money there, with the top 10 making more than $25 million annually.
With so many editorial options, it’s helpful to have a guide to help you find the worthy stuff. Inside of Substack, that’s Hannah Ray, Storytelling Lead. Hannah’s job is to find and elevate amazing writers, especially the ones who might not naturally toot their own horns. Hannah brings experience from The Guardian and Instagram to the role.
Other highlights, inspiration and key learnings from the conversation:
- How Hannah approaches curating newsletters for Substack
- Tools she uses to discover writers
- Her advice for how writers can grow and get featured
- Curation guardrails at Substack
- Why having an editorial background can serve in-house curators
👋 Say "hi" to Hannah.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Hannah’s own favorite culture picks.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the world’s first social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
Holding space for native art and community 🪶 Kalyn Fay Barnoski, Philbrook Museum of Art
The Art of Curation
09/19/23 • 38 min
“We aren't constantly swimming in trauma. We're a joyful people. I want to make sure that the way we present the work is reflective of an expansive and nuanced understanding that we can hold pain but we can also hold a lot of love, joy and happiness.” — Kalyn Fay Barnoski, Philbrook Museum of Art
When you’re a gatekeeper to a world that’s still unfolding for mainstream audiences, the pressure must be...intense. Kalyn Fay Barnoski, an interdisciplinary artist, musician, curator, and educator from Oklahoma, who is a Cherokee Nation enrollee and of Muscogee Creek descent, confirmed that the responsibility is a big one that they don’t take lightly.
What does that feel like? How does one begin to curate from such a vast and varied universe? What happens when the job also means retelling history? And what's the importance of the land a museum sits on when thinking about curation?
Listen in as Kalyn shares details about how they approach such a sacred role, what they’re excited about — and what work still needs to be done — when they ponder how Indigenous culture is presented in museums in 2023.
Other highlights, inspiration and key learnings from the conversation:
- How their life as an artist impacts their approach as a curator
- What people don’t get right about native art and culture
- Honoring all parts of yourself as a curator
- Indigenous creatives more people should know
- Making space for creativity
👋 Say "hi" to Kalyn.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Kalyn’s favorite culture picks.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the world’s first social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
10/04/22 • 37 min
“When you host a lightweight cocktail party, you now have a way to go through life, collecting these new and interesting people and bringing them into your world...You use these parties as an audition to see who you would like to become better friends with.” — Nick Gray, creator of “The 2-Hour Cocktail Party”
Whether you’re new to a place or getting on in your years, it can feel increasingly hard to make friends. But Nick Gray has devised a blueprint to change that, outlined step-by-step in his book, “The 2-Hour Cocktail Party.”
Nick’s essentially created a system that’s like an audition for who gets to be your friend. It’s a way to turn even introverts into super connectors. And it's proof that when you stop being too cool to care, you’ll start connecting with people for real.
At the heart of Nick’s formula is the art of curating who gets to be invited to these highly structured IRL events. In this episode, Nick deconstructs his approach to curating people for parties with solid results. It’s a great one for anyone who wants to go from being a party pooper to a party planner.
Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- Nick’s 2-hour cocktail party formula (N.I.C.K.) in a nutshell
- Curating people for chemistry
- The importance of name tags and icebreakers
- Curating conversations, especially in “the awkward zone”
- Effectively maintaining the ties you’ve cultivated
👋 Say "hi" to Nick.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Nick’s curated culture picks and more about his newsletter and book.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the popular social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
Down the rabbit hole of wine 🍷 Nadine Brown, Sommelier
The Art of Curation
12/06/22 • 36 min
“If you're a curator in a museum, you're thinking about the thousands or millions of people that are coming through your space, not just your own personal taste. That's [also] important when doing a list. I have things that I love that I drink, but if I'm putting a list together, it's really important to think about all the people that are coming through the door.” — Nadine Brown, Sommelier and Wine Writer
The world of wine can be overwhelming. There is so much choice! Thank goodness for sommeliers, who matchmake our taste buds and meals to the perfect bottle. That pairing of food and wine, when done right, is a kind of alchemy itself.
Being a sommelier means delivering the right bottle to the right person at the right time. It requires immense knowledge, a knack for really listening to what people want, and then delivering something that creates an experience that is bigger than the sum of its parts.
That’s just some of what can be learned from Nadine Brown, a sommelier and wine writer and judge who was also the wine director for the Charlie Palmer Steak House in Washington, DC, where she managed a 4,000-bottle list and more than a few fancy customers.
Nadine says she thrives in the chaos of restaurants and takes great joy in providing top-notch recommendations and hospitality. It was a pleasure uncovering more about the business of curating wine for individuals and as part of an institution.
Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- What is unique about curating wine
- How to think about creating a wine list from scratch
- How to pick the right bottle for the right person
- How any of us can improve our wine knowledge
- What most people don’t understand about wines
- Which wine pairs best with tacos
👋 Say "hi" to Nadine.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Nadine’s own curated picks.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the popular social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
Bringing people together through history 🏫 Jason Steinhauer, History Club
The Art of Curation
01/25/22 • 32 min
“Sometimes in the Jewish imagination, but definitely in the broader public imagination, people reduce all of Jewish history to the Holocaust. And so I think one of the responsibilities that curators have is to show the rich panoply of Jewish experience beyond just 1939-1945...and to create access points to those histories.” — Jason Steinhauer
History Club founder Jason Steinhauer is a curator with such deep and varied experience that it’s hard to know where to start. Do we begin with the popular Clubhouse conversations he hosts on Thursday nights? His new book about how social media and the Web have changed the past? Or with any one of the curatorial/archivist roles he’s had at places like the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the Museum of Chinese in America?
Instead, the conversation begins with a curatorial experience centered on a topic core to his identity, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Jason was part of the team behind an award-winning exhibition about American Jews in the Second World War. He brings a perspective to history — and how we experience stories from the past — that incorporates media, tech, culture and his own Jewish faith.
Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- Growing up a “museum nerd”
- Unique pressures of curating for a Holocaust museum
- How one begins to curate Jewish stories
- What curators of Jewish history need to consider that other curators do not
- What makes a good historian and how that is different from what makes a good curator of history
- Care for physical objects in a digital world
- Inside his book, “History, Disrupted”
- Consuming accurate, high-quality historical content on the Internet (and does Instagram count?)
- Founding History Club and curating conversations there
- What inspires his Clubhouse conversations
- The through-line of his career
- How history might judge the current day
- Speed round: Jason’s culture picks
👋 Say "hi" to Jason.
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🔎 Browse this Storyboard to get the episode, plus Jason’s favorite books, movies, and other cultural picks.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the popular social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more
Sneakers are medicinal 👟Jasmine “Jixie” Gonzalez, Curvy Kicks
The Art of Curation
11/08/22 • 44 min
“Unlike the traditional definition of collecting, where you just accumulate, sneaker collecting is to accumulate and wear. The finality of collecting the art is to style it, to make it yours. For me, it's not just about the sneaker. It's about the whole fashion and the whole fit. It's about the whole piece that I'm putting out there while highlighting the shoe.” — Jixie Gonzalez, Curvy Kicks
Sneakers. They’re everywhere!
But for Jasmine “Jixie” Gonzalez, sneakers are more than just footwear. Not only is she the curator of a 30-year collection of over 1,000 kicks, she also describes sneakers as “medicinal.” As a plus-size woman who felt that “fashion never loved me back,” Jixie says sneakers became a language to exert her voice, express her style, and build an uplifting community of other women who love this kind of shoe.
Jixie’s passion for sneakers and their transformative power is infectious. Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- Difference between collecting and curating sneakers
- Finding and acquiring sneakers
- How to style sneakers
- How being plus-size influences her as a curator
- Women and sneaker culture
- Other sneaker collectors to know
👋 Say "hi" to Jixie.
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode, plus Jixie’s own curated culture picks.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, the popular social magazine, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
Collecting ideas in art and ancient history 🎨 Julia Lu, The Collector
The Art of Curation
10/26/21 • 33 min
“I want to democratize the idea of collecting so that it's not only for people who have a lot of money who collect ancient artifacts or shoes or expensive watches. You can collect ideas, artists, and favorite things...” — Julia Lu, The Collector
If you spend any time on Flipboard, you’ll likely see The Collector’s Storyboards pass through your feeds. And if they don’t catch your eye visually, they’ll for sure pique your intellectual curiosity. With over 700 of these collections, curated around themes ranging from Banksy’s political art to Greek myths you probably don’t know, The Collector presents fascinating angles on ancient history, art, artists and philosophy.
TheCollector.com Editor-in-Chief Julia Lu takes us behind the scenes on the site’s editorial operations, where we learn how a collective of experts works together to curate information that has become a trusted resource for scholars, classrooms and enthusiasts.
Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- How Julia got involved with The Collector
- Her relationship to collecting
- How collecting differs from curating
- Gaining consensus when a collective is curating
- What makes for an ideal contributor to The Collector
- How you might take a collective of experts and form a big picture for a brand
- How The Collector thinks about sourcing
- Things to consider when curating an artist’s life
- What to consider when curating historical artefacts for a modern digital audience
- Curating against — or revising — the historical record
- What’s hard about running The Collector
- Pitfalls of Wikipedia as a source
- How Flipboard fits into The Collector’s content strategy
👋 Say hi to Julia!
🔎 Browse the companion Storyboard to get the episode itself, plus Julia’s own picks in the arts.
➕ This podcast was created by Flipboard, where enthusiasts are curating stories they recommend across thousands of interests. Learn more.
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How many episodes does The Art of Curation have?
The Art of Curation currently has 41 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Culture, Society & Culture, Content Strategy, Podcasts, Curation and Technology.
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The episode title 'How curating music can make you a better entrepreneur 👩🚀 Jonathan Tzou, Dancing Astronaut / Rupie.io' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The Art of Curation is 37 minutes.
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Episodes of The Art of Curation are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of The Art of Curation was released on Sep 21, 2021.
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