May: Readings & Listenings recommended by CIMAM members
For May, we’d like to share a new selection of reading recommendations suggested by CIMAM members. These articles and books explore key topics related to museums and collections of modern and contemporary art, offering different perspectives and reflections from across the field.
Books and Articles
Exhibitions as Research: Experimental Methods in Museums
By Peter Bjerregaard, ed. Publisher: 1st ed. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Performing the Curatorial: Within and Beyond Art
By Maria Lind, ed. Publisher: Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012.
Curating and the Educational Turn
By Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson, eds. Publisher: London & Amsterdam: Open Editions/De Appel, 2010.
Curating Research
By Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson, eds. Publisher: London & Amsterdam: Open Editions/De Appel, 2015.
Rethinking Research in the Art Museum
By Emily Pringle. Publisher: London: Routledge, 2019.
“Curating and Research: An Uneasy Alliance. In Curatorial Challenges: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating"
By Simone Sheikh, edited by Malene Vest Hansen, Anne Folke Henningsen, and Anne Gregersen. Publisher: London: Routledge, 2019.
“Museum-based Research: A Typological Exploration."
By: Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir. Museum Management and Curatorship, 37, no. 5 (2022): 437–448.
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison. Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1970
The Word for World is Water. World Building and Creative Resistance through Liquid Alliances
Editors: Katya Garcia-Anton, Margarida Mendes. Publisher: Spector Books, 2026.
Potential History. Unlearning Imperialism
By Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Publisher: Verso, 2019.
By Paul Virilio. Publisher: Firpo Casa Editoria.
By Reyner Banham. Publisher: Firpo Casa Editoria.
By Arkady Martine. Publisher: Tor, 2019
The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890–1950
By Santu Mofokeng. Publisher: Steidl, 2013
Unannounced Voices Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions
By Zdenka Badovinac. Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2022
Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space Case Studies in Hauntology
By Jonathan Blackwood, Jasmina Tumbas. Publisher: Routledge, 2026.
Mirada de barrio: Arte y participación colectiva para imaginar territorios y comunidades
By Claudia Zaldívar. Publisher: Ediciones MSSA, 2022
Where Does Listening Happen?
Rethinking Curatorial Practice and Independent Frameworks
By Ileana Ramírez, CIMAM Publications, 2026.
Exclusive for CIMAM members >> Editorial Discounts
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