Each year students in the Critical and Curatorial
Studies seminar develop an exhibition from the
Hite Art InstituteÕs substantial print collection. The
exercise is a didactic one, to be sure, aimed principally
at teaching the next generation of curators how to
work from a collection. But the exhibition that results
is also rather instructiveÑfor me as an educator and
for the exhibitionÕs audience, the show offers an update
on our collection based on the particular orientation of
this new generation of curators and on the social and
political moment in which they emerge. This year that
ÒmomentÓ loomed large.