We are looking for
The catalogue is made by few hands, and two kinds of work are missing. About money first: the project is non-commercial, it earns nothing and can pay nothing. What it offers instead is work that will stay 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 is 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, and to carry on the correspondence with museums. Experience with an inventory of holdings, with provenance or with a complete catalogue of a collection is exactly what is wanted here.
A short letter about yourself and a list of publications, exhibitions or catalogues, if there are any. And 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. We shall judge by that, since a list of posts held shows neither an eye nor a willingness to name the limits of a collection.
Free photographs do not stretch to everything: for some museums there are none at all, for exhibitions almost never. 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, and one entry a month is already a contribution. Your name stands beside your work 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. Everyone who sends work gets an answer, including those we do not take on.