We are looking for
The catalogue is made by few hands, and two kinds of work are missing. First things first: this is a non-commercial project; it earns nothing and can pay nothing. What it offers instead is work that stays under your own name, and the freedom to do it as you think right.
Someone from the museum world: an art historian, a keeper, a research fellow, a guide with research behind them. The work: to choose museums and award them a step of our scale; to write the “why this museum” — naming the objects and naming the limits of the collection; to check hours, prices and access and to answer for the date of checking; to carry on the correspondence with museums.
A short letter about yourself; a list of publications, exhibitions or catalogues, if there are any; and — this is the part that matters — a trial entry on one museum of your choosing: five to seven sentences on what one goes there for, and one sentence on what is not there. That is what we shall judge by, not by a list of posts held.
Photographs under free licences do not cover everything: some museums have none at all, and exhibitions almost never do. We need someone who can draw a building and an object so that the drawing works in one colour and on paper — in the same austerity as the rest of these pages: line, air, nothing spare. Send three or four works, at least one of them architecture or an object drawn from life.
There is no money, and there will be none soon. You set the amount of work yourself: one entry a month is already a contribution. Your name stands beside what you made, and stays there. You keep the rights to your text and your drawing; we ask leave to show them here and to name you as their author.
Through the contact form. We answer everyone who sends work — not only those we take on. Write to us.