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Curator and exhibit designer dress a mannequin for an exhibit.. A curator (from Latin: cura, meaning 'to take care') [1] is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission.
A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure in the New York School , an informal group of artists, writers, and musicians who drew inspiration from jazz, surrealism , abstract expressionism , action painting , and contemporary avant-garde art movements.
In 2017, Conaty was appointed the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum. [ 5 ] During her tenure at the Whitney, she curated exhibitions dedicated to the work of Edward Hopper (2022) and Ruth Asawa (2023), the former becoming one of the best-attended shows in the museum's history. [ 6 ]
The new curator at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art makes basic mistakes. It called one painting a sculpture and mistitled another. From the museum’s 14,000-item collection, it curiously ...
Johanna Beth Burton is an American art historian, critic, and curator who has been the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles since 2021. She was director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University from 2018 to 2021.
George R. Goldner is an American curator in charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints from 1993 to 2015. [1] He previously was J. Paul Getty Museum 's curator of drawings and paintings from 1983 to 1993.
Lauren Cornell is an American curator and writer based in New York. Cornell is the Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art [1] and the Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Previously, she was a curator at the New Museum and was the executive director of their affiliate Rhizome (2005-2012). [2]
The exhibition earned Anderson a prestigious National Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Anderson scrutinized the collection and included several renowned American and Indigenous artists such as Thomas Moran (1837–1926), [ 7 ] Awa Tsireh (1898 – 1955), and Maria Martinez (1887–1980).