Adrian George has produced art shows in bus shelters, white cube spaces, and community arts organisations, and with his book 'The Curator's Handbook' he turned his thoughts to the elements of good curation.
We live in a fascinating retail era. As the aftershocks from retail parks, Amazon and the ‘death of the high street’ reverberate, a recalibration of shops and their function seems to be taking place. From ‘Boxparks’ made of shipping containers to pop-up concession shops-within-shops, from lifestyle record/book/coffee stores to ad hoc hipster street stalls, there are untold experiments in getting people not just spending their money, but enjoying doing so.