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“... is signed over when we click ‘I agree’? This problem is not taken up by the Swiss art curator Hans UlrichObrist in his brief account of his formation as an Ausstellungsmacher, and it is no more than touched on by the Canadian art critic David Balzer in his breezy book about ‘how curating took over the art world ...”

“... Clark and Hélio Oiticica and the ‘institution-critical’ devices of Marcel Broodthaers and Hans Haacke. But these artists have also transformed the familiar devices of the readymade object, the collaborative project and the installation format. For example, some now treat entire TV shows and Hollywood films as found images: Pierre Huyghe has reshot ...”

“... and Christian Boltanski (Walther König, €19.80), one of a series of books of interviews by Hans UlrichObrist, the Swiss curator who is now co-director of the Serpentine Gallery. In the Obrist volume, Boltanski has scribbled over some of his own words, cancelling them out ...”

“... and Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. De Pury was private curator to Baron ‘Heini’ – Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza – then chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, then established Phillips de Pury, which he hoped would ‘turn the auction house duoply that was Sotheby’s and Christie’s into a triumvirate that included myself’. ‘Courting ...”