Prospects

Curators   Spaces   Artists

Michal Novotný


(National Gallery Prague)Working inside one of Central Europe's great art-historical collections imposes a certain formal accountability that curatorial fashionistas rarely face. A curator must answer to Cranach and Klimt before answering to the editorial board of e-flux. His programming shows signs of genuine collection thinking — which is to say, thinking about objects over time, not causes over breakfast.