What Does an Art Curator Do

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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As more of us can step back into the world and look at art in person, we discuss the role (and responsibility) of an art curator with Helen Molesworth, formerly of MOCA in Los Angeles, and host of the podcast Recording Artists.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:03.2	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:06.2	I am Amina Tuzo.
0:09.3	And I am Anne Friedman.
0:11.2	Hello over there Anne Friedman.
0:13.6	How's it going over there?
0:17.5	I mean, you know, it's just going, truly, it's just going.
0:20.6	I've turned into one of those people that I'm obsessed with all of those like good news,
0:25.3	like, you know, like news pages that have cropped up.
0:29.1	And it's how you know that like my spirit is really defeated because I read them and
0:34.5	the good news is not enough adrenaline jolt to make me feel anything.
0:38.6	The good news is like a lot of times very dumb.
0:41.1	Well, I have a real treat for you today.
0:44.6	I spoke with the contemporary art curator Helen Molesworth, who was the chief curator of
0:51.2	the Museum of Contemporary Art here in Los Angeles.
0:54.5	And then in 2019, she released a podcast that she hosted in partnership with the Getty
1:01.6	Museum called Recording Artists, which I really loved and listened to a bunch.
1:07.1	It is full of archival interviews with a bunch of incredible women artists who were working
1:13.9	in the 60s and 70s.
1:16.1	And then it features conversations among between contemporary artists who are making work
1:22.8	that somehow relates to the art that those women made.
1:52.8	I love the curatorial perspective that Helen brought to that project.
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