The Pedagogical Impulse: Bad Education

Pablo Helguera is a socially engaged performance artist who works as the Direc­tor of Adult and Aca­d­e­mic pro­grams at the Museum of Mod­ern Art, New York. 

In Bad Education, an interview published in The Pedagogical Impulse, he says  "Education is about people and about visitors and they are adjusted to the porosity of social relationships. Curatorial departments, historically, are about objects and connoisseurship. They are about understanding the object and how to exhibit it and how to maintain its narrative and things like that. More and more these divisions are eroding."