Janet Marstine is Honorary Associate Professor of Museum Studies (retired), University of Leicester, and is now based in Maine in the US. She writes on diverse aspects of museum ethics from curatorial ethics to artists’ interventions as drivers for ethical change and has a particular interest in recognising and supporting the agency of practitioners to make informed ethical decisions.Oscar Ho Hing Kay is Associate Professor of Practice and Director of the Master's Programme in Cultural Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Formerly he was the exhibitions director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai.

• 1. Curating as a relational practice Janet Marstine and Oscar Ho Hing KayPart I ExpertiseIntroduction to Part IJanet MarstineGroundwork2. Curation is SpreadingHajime Nariai3. Who is HUO? David Balzer Connoisseurship4. From connoisseurship to technical art history: the evolution of the interdisciplinary study of artMaryan W. Ainsworth Curatorial vision and institutional history5. ‘Electronic Refractions II’ at the Studio Museum in HarlemSusan E. Cahan6. On quality: curators at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1935-2010)Richard Cándida-Smith Provenance7. Faked biographies: the remake of antiquities and their sale on the art marketBrigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Sophorn Kim8. Renewing Nazi-era provenance research efforts: case studies and recommendationsNancy KarrelsExhibition-making and the canon9. Aestheticized installations for modernism, ethnographic art and objects of everyday life [excerpt]Mary Anne Staniszewski10. Eloquent walls and argumentative spaces: displaying late works of DegasRichard Kendall11. Feminist perspectives on curatingDorothee RichterLinking past to present12. The Battle over ‘The West as America’Alan Wallach13. Curating contemporary art: narrating the past and reflecting on the individual and timeVivian Ting Wing YanPart II EngagementIntroduction to Part IIJanet MarstineGroundwork14. Masterpieces and the critical museumKatarzyna Murawska-MuthesiusThe processes of cultural translation15. From entangled objects to engaged subjects: knowledge translation and cultural heritage regenerationLea S. McChesney16. The ‘fourth world’ theory in Wonil Rhee’s curating: focusing on post-colonialismKim Sung-Ho Artists as curators17. The book in which we learn to read: contemporary artists and their place within historical museumsJasper Sharp18. Curatorial relationalityBeatrice von Bismarck 19. No good time for an exhibition: reflections on the Picasso in Palestine project, Part IMichael BaersRelational practice with publics20. Other people’s stories: bringing public-generated photography into the contemporary art museumAreti Galani and Alexandra Moschovi21. The unexpected guest: food and hospitality in contemporary Asian ArtFrancis MaravillasNegotiating the local and the global22. The right to be wrongHoward N. Fox23. Homegrown: The origins of performance art in MyanmarNathalie Johnston24. From object to subject: conceptualizing ‘The Future of Tradition-The Tradition of Future’Avinoam ShalemNavigating the pressures of censorship25. Encounters with censorshipNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o26. Art is not bioterrorism: the criminalization of critical cultural and intellectual productionFaith Wilding Part III PlatformsIntroduction to Part IIIJanet MarstineGroundwork27. The roving eye: Southeast Asian art’s plural views on self, culture and nationIola Lenzi28. Experiments in integrated programmingSally Tallant29. The transmedia museumJenny KiddBlurring the boundaries between performance, programme and exhibition30. ‘The Play’: reassembling African arts in the West’Joshua I. Cohen31. Museum for the people? Two joint projects for Haiti and CongoBogumil Jewsiewicki Appropriating the apparatus of the institution32. Trading Place: Museum of contemporary artKao Chien-Hui33. MockstitutionsGregory SholetteCurating interstitial spaces34. Invading the medias: Selma and Sofiane Ouissi’s ‘Dream City’Rachida Triki35. Bishan Project: restarting the rural reconstruction movementOu Ning New models of curating in a network culture36. Reconfiguring curation: noninstitutional new media curating and the politics of cultural productionPatrick Lichty37. The politics of contemporary curating: a network perspectiveJoasia Krysa