Features / December 15, 2011

David Balzer’s Top 3: Art for the Ages

David Altmejd The Vessel 2011 Detail Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery New York / photo Jessica Eckert

David Balzer

David Balzer is the author of two books, Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else, winner of ICA London's 2015 Book of the Year, and the short-fiction collection Contrivances. He has written about art and culture for the Globe and Mail, the Guardian, Frieze, Artforum, The Believer and others, and from 2016 to 2019 was editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Canadian Art.

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Features / May 16, 2018

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