curator

(noun)

A person who manages, administers, or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive, or zoo.

Related Terms

Examples of curator in the following topics:

  • The Market

    • The key components of the art market are the gallery, curator, dealer, consultant, and collector.
    • The important players in the art market are the gallery, curator, dealer, consultant, and collector.
    • The curator is generally the manager of the gallery and the person who programs the space and organizes art shows.
    • Curators at commercial galleries may have the responsibility of selling work, while those at museums generally maintain the organizational aspects of exhibitions.
    • Summarize the roles of the gallery, curator, dealer, consultant, and collector in the art market

  • Gender

    • The following are only a few examples of important artists and writers who can be credited with making the movement more visible in culture: Judy Chicago, founder of the first known Feminist Art Program (in Fresno, California); Miriam Schapiro, co-founder of the Feminist Art Program at Cal Arts; Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Arlene Raven co-founders of the Woman's Building; Suzanne Lacy and Faith Wilding, both participants in all the early programs; Martha Rosler Mary Kelly, Kate Millett, Nancy Spero, Faith Ringgold, June Wayne, art-world agitators The Guerrilla Girls; and critics, historians, and curators Lucy Lippard, Griselda Pollock, Arlene Raven, and Dextra Frankel.
    • and critics, historians, and curators Lucy Lippard, Griselda Pollock, Arlene Raven, and Dextra Frankel.
    • In 1996, Catherine de Zegher curated an exhibition of 37 great women artists from the twentieth century.

  • Training Artists

    • Many art schools also grant degrees in art curation, criticism, art education, and design, and prepare individuals for the jobs associated with these degrees.

  • Post-Painterly Abstraction

    • The term was first used by the art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964.

  • Making the Art

    • Art shows or exhibitions represent the culmination of a body of work for an artist, and are organized by curators.

  • Painting

    • Clement Greenberg became the voice of Post-painterly abstraction by curating an influential exhibition of new painting that toured important art museums throughout the United States in 1964.

  • Conceptual Art

    • Lucy Lippard, an internationally known writer, art critic, activist and curator from the United States, was among the first writers to recognize the "dematerialization" at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art.

  • Assemblage

    • Seitz, the curator of the exhibition, described assemblages as being made up of preformed natural or manufactured materials, objects, or fragments not intended as art materials.

  • The New York School

    • According to the critic, historian, and curator Bruce Altshuler, "It appeared as though a line had been crossed, a step into a larger art world whose future was bright with possibility."