Curator
noun
A person who is in charge of a museum, library, etc.
The museum has hired a new curator who is responsible for maintaining the collections.
Often appears as...
- museum curator
- art curator
noun
A person who selects content for presentation, as on a website.
As a digital curator, her job is to maintain the proper organization of the website's content.
Often appears as...
- digital curator
- content curator
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Technical
noun
In law, a person assigned to manage the affairs of another who is unable to manage them on their own.
The court has appointed a curator ad litem to handle the assets of the incapacitated person.
Often appears as...
- curator ad litem
- legal curator
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Formal
Legal
noun
A person who is in charge of a museum, library, etc.
The museum has hired a new curator who is responsible for maintaining the collections.
Often appears as...
- museum curator
- art curator
noun
A person who selects content for presentation, as on a website.
As a digital curator, her job is to maintain the proper organization of the website's content.
Often appears as...
- digital curator
- content curator
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In law, a person assigned to manage the affairs of another who is unable to manage them on their own.
The court has appointed a curator ad litem to handle the assets of the incapacitated person.
Often appears as...
- curator ad litem
- legal curator
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Caretaker Expertise
Curators usually have deep knowledge about the items they oversee.
The curator gave a fascinating tour, explaining the history behind each artifact.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Art
Curators work with a variety of collections, including natural history, science, and history.
As the library's curator, he's in charge of rare books and manuscripts.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Interaction
Curators often design exhibits and may interact with the public through tours or talks.
The curator's lecture on ancient pottery was enlightening.
Pro Tip 1/3Caretaker Expertise
Curators usually have deep knowledge about the items they oversee.
The curator gave a fascinating tour, explaining the history behind each artifact.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Art
Curators work with a variety of collections, including natural history, science, and history.
As the library's curator, he's in charge of rare books and manuscripts.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Interaction
Curators often design exhibits and may interact with the public through tours or talks.
The curator's lecture on ancient pottery was enlightening.
Pro Tip 1/3Caretaker Expertise
Curators usually have deep knowledge about the items they oversee.
The curator gave a fascinating tour, explaining the history behind each artifact.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Art
Curators work with a variety of collections, including natural history, science, and history.
As the library's curator, he's in charge of rare books and manuscripts.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Interaction
Curators often design exhibits and may interact with the public through tours or talks.
The curator's lecture on ancient pottery was enlightening.
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Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...
And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum -- if I was a museum curator, I would make a room for love, a room for generosity. All works of art are talking to us about things. And if we were able to arrange spaces where we could come across works where we would be told, use these works of art
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Testing the Mona Lisa PIPE...
curators who organized the testing the models seem to be enveloped by a transparent gauze like veil I could observe that there was girls on the left arm that will also goes on the right arm and the mother seems to be totally enveloped in the transparent goes so I deduced that the model was totally
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An Art Made of Trust,...
and becoming possible -- an unbearable smell. But then something stays in the memory. I want to show you the one who really changed my life, and this was the performance in MoMa, which I just recently made. This performance -- when I said to the curator, "I'm just going to sit at the chair,
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Dinosaurs: The Facts and...
director of the museum's dinosaur Institute and curator of the new exhibition I'm very well nice to meet you likewise you'll be packing the exhibition with everything we know about dinosaurs from the biggest to the smallest with the
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800-pound Best Friend PIPE...
of sled dogs anything to be outside and working with animals before I knew it I was the curator at a wildlife park visiting an elephant orphanage in Kenya and hanging out with some amazing crocodiles and yes these jobs come with
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Rives: The Museum of...
And when I got to that point, I embraced it. I got my curator on. I started fact checking, downloading, illegally screen-grabbing. I started archiving. My hobby had become a habit, and my habit gave me possibly the world's
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How art gives shape to...
to bring as a curator to the world I was interested in the idea of why and how I could create a new story a new narrative in art history and a new narrative in the world and to do this I knew that I
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Protecting Ancient...
Nadia's help the museum agreed to let me inspect the seized antiquities where are you keeping the antiquities down here was it just used to a curator of the museum and this kind of jewy
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Thelma Golden: How art...
two of many who really form for me the essential questions that I wanted to bring as a curator to the world. I was interested in the idea of why and how I could create a new story,
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Context determines...
mountable I went to buku once on a research program and I met principal Ikki and I asked him he said tell me what I look in foil I was at the curator
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Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...
And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum -- if I was a museum curator, I would make a room for love, a room for generosity. All works of art are talking to us about things. And if we were able to arrange spaces where we could come across works where we would be told, use these works of art
Video examples
Testing the Mona Lisa PIPE...
curators who organized the testing the models seem to be enveloped by a transparent gauze like veil I could observe that there was girls on the left arm that will also goes on the right arm and the mother seems to be totally enveloped in the transparent goes so I deduced that the model was totally
Video examples
An Art Made of Trust,...
and becoming possible -- an unbearable smell. But then something stays in the memory. I want to show you the one who really changed my life, and this was the performance in MoMa, which I just recently made. This performance -- when I said to the curator, "I'm just going to sit at the chair,
Video examples
Dinosaurs: The Facts and...
director of the museum's dinosaur Institute and curator of the new exhibition I'm very well nice to meet you likewise you'll be packing the exhibition with everything we know about dinosaurs from the biggest to the smallest with the
Video examples
800-pound Best Friend PIPE...
of sled dogs anything to be outside and working with animals before I knew it I was the curator at a wildlife park visiting an elephant orphanage in Kenya and hanging out with some amazing crocodiles and yes these jobs come with
Video examples
Rives: The Museum of...
And when I got to that point, I embraced it. I got my curator on. I started fact checking, downloading, illegally screen-grabbing. I started archiving. My hobby had become a habit, and my habit gave me possibly the world's
Video examples
How art gives shape to...
to bring as a curator to the world I was interested in the idea of why and how I could create a new story a new narrative in art history and a new narrative in the world and to do this I knew that I
Video examples
Protecting Ancient...
Nadia's help the museum agreed to let me inspect the seized antiquities where are you keeping the antiquities down here was it just used to a curator of the museum and this kind of jewy
Video examples
Thelma Golden: How art...
two of many who really form for me the essential questions that I wanted to bring as a curator to the world. I was interested in the idea of why and how I could create a new story,
Video examples
Context determines...
mountable I went to buku once on a research program and I met principal Ikki and I asked him he said tell me what I look in foil I was at the curator
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Joshua Bell
American Musician
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.
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Iris Apfel
American Businesswoman
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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Waldemar Januszczak
British Critic
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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David Rockefeller
American Businessman
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
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Sean Scully
American Artist
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.
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Sasha Velour
American Entertainer
I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest.
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Mike Will Made It
American Musician
It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.
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Chad Hurley
American Businessman
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.
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Suhasini Maniratnam
Indian Actress
There are about 250 curators in the world who keep their eyes open to choose films from around the globe for festivals. I am one of them.
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Linda Johnson Rice
American Businesswoman
We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.
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Joshua Bell
American Musician
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.
Quote examples
Iris Apfel
American Businesswoman
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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Waldemar Januszczak
British Critic
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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David Rockefeller
American Businessman
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
Quote examples
Sean Scully
American Artist
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.
Quote examples
Sasha Velour
American Entertainer
I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest.
Quote examples
Mike Will Made It
American Musician
It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.
Quote examples
Chad Hurley
American Businessman
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.
Quote examples
Suhasini Maniratnam
Indian Actress
There are about 250 curators in the world who keep their eyes open to choose films from around the globe for festivals. I am one of them.
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Linda Johnson Rice
American Businesswoman
We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.
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