The Curator's Shadow: The Unspoken Authorship Behind Neutrality. Dorian Vale Museum of One 2025-05-01 2026-05-02T00:09:25.313806+00:00 2026-05-02T00:09:25.743533+00:00 2026-11-05 2026-11-04 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19963428 MOO-CAT-010 https://zenodo.org/records/19963428 https://www.museumofone.art/the-curators-shadow-the-unspoken-authorship-behind-neutrality/ https://osf.io/zhnre/files/7nq5w https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19957859 Journal article A study of curatorial authorship and the claim of neutrality. It attends to the choices of sequence, lighting, distance, and omission through which exhibitions structure an encounter. 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