Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, shows how we can use the process of curation outside the art world. For readers of David Byrne's }How Music Works{ Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents and centuries, the author argues that curation is far from a static practice.