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When Artists Curate: Noah Davis and the Artist-Curator

Noah Davis: Talks and Events

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Imitation of Wealth (2013)

Imitation of Wealth curated by Noah Davis at the Underground Museum, Los Angeles, 2013. © The Estate of Noah Davis. Courtesy The Estate of Noah Davis and David Zwirner.

Join artists Alvaro Barrington and Allison Katz with writer and podcaster Helen Molesworth for a panel discussion moderated by art historian Dorothy Price, inspired by the work of Noah Davis. 

What does it mean for an artist to curate? In 2012, Noah Davis co-founded the Underground Museum in Los Angeles, converting four shopfronts into an arts centre that was free and open to all. A partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles allowed him to devise and curate 18 exhibitions using the museum’s collection, realising one in his lifetime and leaving detailed instructions for the remainder.

Reflecting on their own activities as artists and curators, this panel will think through the role of the artist-curator in dialogue with Davis’s curatorial activities.

Noah Davis is on view in our Art Gallery from 6 Feb to 11 May. 

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The events programme around the exhibition at the Barbican is supported by the U.S. Embassy in London. 

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