Within the Institution, Without Walls: Curatorial Research Bureau Writer Matthew Sussman reflects on the Curatorial Research Bureau and the future of curatorial education. School Watch, e-flux’s Art & Education January 30, 2019
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea, releases the book What Museums Do: The Curatorial in Parallax edited by Kim Seong Eun and published on occasion of the symposium “What Do Museums Research?” James Voorhies contributes the essay titled “I Call This Work Research,” accompanying contributions by Paola Antonelli, Beck Jee-sook, James Elkins, Pascal Gielen, Kim Seong Eun, Annette Jael Lehmann, Lim Shan, Paul O’Neill, Dorothee Richter, Irit Rogoff, Margriet Schavemaker, Simon Sheikh, Beatrice von Bismarck, and Victoria Walsh. January 2019
Curatorial Research Bureau Announces Winter/Spring programs. e-flux January 14, 2019
2018
Curatorial Research Bureau Program to Launch in September at Yerba Buena Center for the Art Writer Alex Greenberger profiles Curatorial Research Bureau by highlighting the launch of Case Studies, an exhibition of books and printed matter departing from Marianne Wex’s 1979 book Let’s Take Back Our Public Space. ArtNews August 28, 2018
A San Francisco Curatorial Yearbook Writer Alisa Carroll profiles fives curators, Claudia Schmuckli, Clément Chéroux, Eungie Joo, Susan Dackerman, and James Voorhies, who have recently made the Bay Area their home. CULTURED August 12, 2018
Art Sparking Social Engagement Curator Cathy Byrd interviews James Voorhies and MASS MoCA curator Susan Cross (minutes 14:00 to 36:00) about the 2011–12 MASS MoCA exhibition The Workers: Precarity/Invisibility/Mobility and Bureau for Open Culture’s contribution I Am Searching for Field Character, an exhibition series of public conversations, performances, installations, workshops, a beer garden, and the research project titled On Symptoms of Cultural Industry. Fresh Art International May 28, 2018
James Voorhies awarded 2018 Research and Development Grant from the Graham Foundation for work on Binding Agents: Toward an Aesthetic of the Postcolonial in Contemporary Exhibition, a new book project exploring the changing ways in which artists, curators, and institutions examine topics such as nation-state, immigration, and colonialism through extended research projects that manifest in film, photography, architecture, urban interventions, immersive installations, exhibitions, and public programming. Graham Foundation April 4, 2018
James Voorhies awarded curatorial research grant from Étant Donnés Contemporary Art FACE Foundation Spring 2018