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curator

[kyoo-ray-ter, kyoor-ay-, kyoor-uh-ter] / kjʊˈreɪ tər, ˈkjʊər eɪ-, ˈkjʊər ə tər /
NOUN
caretaker of collection
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"It's been this open debate for a century," said Neill Wallis, curator of Florida archaeology, bioarchaeology and the Ceramic Technology Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

According to chief curator Joes Segal, the exhibition dedicates two sections to authoritarianism — one to the cult of personality and the other to the act of resistance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Levine was less than a week into his new job as the museum’s assistant curator of European art when it acquired Portrait of a Lady from Sotheby’s for $68,750, more than tripling its asking price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Rolywholyover” traveled to the Guggenheim in New York’s SoHo district the next year, and the young curator in charge was Michael Govan, LACMA’s visionary head behind the Zumthor galleries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

It took two days, but Brandon was finally able to reach Ms. Patrice McMillan, his sister’s AP History teacher and the unofficial curator of the Perkins Memorial Room.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

In addition, the museum’s curators tended to be specialized in material culture — collecting and studying the museum’s several million objects and artifacts — rather than in conceptual storytelling.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

There seems to be a tension that curators feel in giving audiences what they are looking for while also presenting real history.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

According to the show's curators, elements of Flaxman's sketches can be seen in Turner's painting called Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus – Homer's Odyssey, including outlines of horses in the sunset and the shadow of a cyclops.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Instead, the sisters are handling the nitty-gritty of their father’s career, from tracking sales of his art to working with scholars and curators to study and promote his art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The staff still came in: curators, cleaners, maintenance workers.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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