OPEN Book

First Thursdays
Next: Thursday November 6, 2025
Reading: Interview with Pontus Hultén
7-9pm at OPEN, Free, 18+
RSVP at least 2 weeks prior

RSVP and Join In

OPEN Book is a book club. We select works related to curation, editing, archives, and community organization. We focus on collections of essays, interviews, and similar formats to allow for easy drop-in month to month. There is no fee to participate, but participants have to get their own copies of materials.

For our inaugural season, we’re going to spend slow time with Obrist’s 2008 interviews collection, A Brief History of Curating. Over a year, we’ll read and discuss its eleven interviews: Anne d’Harnoncourt, Werner Hofmann, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hultén, and Harald Szeemann.

Thanks to our new friends at JRP|Editions in Geneva, we’ll also have a few copies of this text in our common space for all to enjoy.

  1. Hans Ulrich Obrist: Wikipedia, The New Yorker

  2. Anne d’Harnoncourt: Wikipedia, Brooklyn Rail

  3. Werner Hofmann: Wikipedia

  4. Jean Leerin: Wikipedia

  5. Franz Meyer: Wikipedia, Franz Meyer Museum

  6. Seth Siegelaub: Wikipedia, Monoskop

  7. Walter Zanini: Wikipedia

  8. Johannes Cladders: Cura Magazine, Art in America

  9. Lucy Lippard: Wikipedia, Afterall

  10. Walter Hopps: Wikipedia, Artforum

  11. Pontus Hultén: Wikipedia, L.A. Times

  12. Harald Szeemann: Wikipedia, Getty Research

Further Reading