Prologue: the way things go -- With Alighiero Boetti -- Mondialité -- do it -- Curating, exhibitions and the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Courbet, Manet and Whistler -- Collecting knowledge -- Of libraries and archives -- Printed exhibitions -- Infinite conversations -- Pioneers -- Night trains and other rituals -- The kitchen -- Robert Walser and Gerhard Richter -- Mentors -- Félix Fénéon and the Hotel Carlton Palace -- Invisible cities -- London calling -- Architecture, urbanism and exhibitions -- Biennials -- Utopia Station -- Ballet Russes -- Time and exhibitions -- Of pavilions and marathons -- Curating (non-)conferences -- Les Immatériaux -- Laboratorium -- Curating the future
Summary:
"The world's most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft"-- Provided by publisher.
