I visited the Brooklyn Museum today for the first time. It's a decent museum in a very nice building. One interesting thing was that they allow visitors to view a sample section from their art storage. I don't think I'd ever seen one before. It's a hangar of beautiful art and history. Yet none of the pieces stood out, unless I paid special attention. And once I did they became some of my favorite pieces in the whole museum.

It might be me but I don't think the world grants enough value to curation. The difference between the same piece collecting dust in storage vs being shown under the spotlight is sometimes one curator's decision. The difference between it being sidelined under a spotlight vs becoming the main highlight of an exhibition is sometimes how that decision is applied. In an age of abundance, that curation becomes a main value add.

Perhaps this is just stating the obvious. But the world is full of curators. I've an artist friend who's also a curator (and sometimes a hoarder) and as a result his home is a piece of art in and of itself. A journalist is a curator. App stores are curating algorithms. VCs curate companies. DJs curate tunes. You curate your own fashion with what you wear. The list goes on.

Not much new here, but I became explicitly aware of the value of curation for the first time today. And it's only going to get more valuable as AI creates further abundance of content and ideas. I'm not sure if as humans we're wired to be able to sift through this much content, but we better learn how to. Or at least grant curators the right value.