Five great curatorial sites
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Who curates the curators? I’m not clever enough to translate that into Latin, but never mind, the answer is, in this case, me. Because today we’re looking at my five favourite curatorial sites on the web.
What is a curatorial website? In truth, I think the definition is quite loose, but curators find, keep and order cultural material, so I guess that curatorial sites are, by extension, where this kind of thing goes on. Anyway, enough blah, here are my five favourite curatorial sites.
1. Smashing Telly
This is what BBC Two and Channel Four should be. No washed up comedians learning how to paint, no sneering at proles, just the good shit. Of course it’s all off the back of the YouTube lorry, but so what, the BBC should sack Punt and Dennis (has anyone ever laughed?) and put more of this stuff on. I particularly enjoyed The Red Balloon, a short film made by the inventor of the board game Risk, and the only short to win an Oscar outside its class. (more…)
