David Balzer is a writer, editor and educator. He is the author of two books, Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else, and the short-fiction collection Contrivances. He has written about art and culture for the Globe and Mail, theGuardian, Frieze, Artforum, The Believer and others, and is currently working on his next nonfiction book in tkaronto/Toronto.