An overview : the origin and provenance of curating -- A selective history of curating in Pittsburgh : the recent story of the Carnegie International / David Carrier -- Curating curiosity : imperialism, materialism, humanism, and the Wunderkammer / Adam Geezy -- Professionalizing the field : the case of the United States / Andrew McClellan -- The emergence of the professional curator / Carole Paul -- Movements, models, people, and politics -- Curating as a verb : 100 years of nation states / Juli Carson -- Curating without borders : transnational feminist and queer feminist practices for the twenty-first century / Elke Krasny -- Displacements and sites : notes on a curatorial method / Maria Lind -- Africa, art, and knowing nothing : some thoughts on curating at the British museum / Chris Spring -- Curatorial Crisis / Martha Wilson -- The curator in a globalized world -- "We care as much as you pay" : curating Asian art / Thomas J. Berghuis -- Museums are everywhere in China, there is no museum in China : (or, how institutional typologies define curatorial practices) / Biljana Ćirić -- Curating the contemporary in decolonial spaces : observations from Thailand on curatorial practice in Southeast Asia / Gregory Galligan -- Curated from within : the artist as curator / Alex Gawronski -- Decolonizing the ethnographic museum / Gerald McMaster -- The creature from the Id : adventures in aboriginal art curating / Djon Mundine -- The impact of context specificity in curating amidst the forces at play in a globalized world of realms / Fatoş Üstek -- The neglected object of curation / Lee Weng-Choy -- Beyond the museum : curating at the frontier -- Parallel processing : public art and new media art / Sara Diamond -- Approach to the curatorship of virtual reality exhibitions / Arnau Gifreu-Castells -- Tracing the ephemeral and contestational : aesthetics and politics of the living archive / Eric Kluitenberg -- Curating with the internet / Sean Lowry -- Arts and science : the intersection (re)engineered / Melentie Pandilovski.