Curator of the Week
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Would You Like To Curate 17,000 Star Wars Characters?

"Lucas had already done the cataloging. His company maintained a database called the Holocron, named after a crystal cube powered by the Force. The real-world Holocron lists 17,000 characters in the Star Wars universe inhabiting several thousand planets over a span of more than 20,000 years. It was quite a bit for Disney to process. So Lucas also provided the company with a guide, Pablo Hidalgo. A founding member of the Star Wars Fan Boy Association, Hidalgo is now a 'brand communication manager' at Lucasfilm. 'The Holocron can be a little overwhelming,' says Hidalgo, who obsesses over canonical matters such as the correct spelling of Wookiee and the definitive [...]

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OMG, It's Curator Nicolaus Schafhausen!!!

Curating is so, so hot right now. Hence our weekly guide to curators! Collect them all! (Haha, GET IT?)

This week's "OMG" curator of interest: Nicolaus Schafhausen.

Born in: 1965.

This just in: became artistic director of the Kunsthalle Wien in June. (That's Vienna, silly!)

Hot news: also just appointed curator of the Bucharest Biennale 6!!!

Former posts: Director of Witte de With in Rotterdam, founding director of European Kunsthalle in Cologne.

Fancy gigs: Curated the German pavilion for both the 52nd and 53rd Venice Biennial.

Fun fact: Founded a gallery in Berlin with a friend that they named after their mothers!

Not afraid of: the commercial side of artistic [...]