Week 6

This week’s articles are mainly focused on the role of curator in a museum or a gallery. What kind of an important role does a curator play. The objects that we put in a museum are not always meant to be put after a point. Here the curator’s part comes, where the curator has to exhibit in a way which bring the significance of the object so properly. And this brings me to this conclusion that how manipulative museums are. Whenever I visited museum I always relied on the authenticity that they showed. But after reading the articles I won’t be able to rely on the information they give. A curator or a museum can trick people and instigate their thoughts. And whatever we read in history books and the pictures that we saw in the books, thought the information are authentic, we overlook them because of lack of the presentation skill. So here I feel a good mutual understanding should happen between the objects and curators. There should be balance between the fact and the manipulation. The author talks about Rasa in Indian art. Even in biographical exhibition curators as well as the historians play a very significant role in joining the dots in the story, so here is the question how authentic are the lines between the dots by the curators?