David Balzer on curationism:

Contemporary curating has become an absurdity. Outfits are curated. Salads are curated. Twitter feeds are curated. Bennington College in Vermont invites prospective students to curate their applications. Lorde was appointed ‘sole curator’ of the most recent Hunger Games film’s soundtrack. Everyone is a curator these days. … Yet to examine the etymology and history of the word ‘curate’ is to find a direct, fascinating link between the professional curator and her pop culture counterpart, engaged in the activity of selecting and displaying. It is also to discover important, perhaps unsettling things about how we currently understand value, and ourselves.