Main Concepts Letter to the Editors

5. The network of visible and invisible workers whose contributions make cultural production possible.
7. The individual traditionally understood as the origin of an artwork.
8. A model in which artists and curators work together rather than functioning as competing authorities.
9. Who has the right or power to interpret, contextualize, classify, or make claims about an artwork.

1. The act of identifying something as art through artistic declaration, curatorial framing, or institutional recognition.
2. The larger problem connecting Vidokle and the eleven responses: who receives responsibility, recognition, and authority for a cultural production?
3. A role whose responsibilities have expanded from organizing and interpreting collections/exhibitions toward shaping cultural narratives and producing exhibitions as intellectual propositions.
4. The ability to shape what is seen, exhibited, funded, interpreted, and remembered.
6. The ability to act and make decisions within artistic and institutional structures.
9. A concept associated with cinema that identifies a distinctive authorial vision within a collaborative production. Heinich and Pollak apply the concept to the emergence of the exhibition “auteur.”