Curator

for Art Museum Curators Curators are highly educated personnel in the art museums. Individuals seeking to become curators acquire a wide range of art collection for the organizations such as museum or history centers in addition to organizing and maintaining different forms of exhibitions. For one to become a professional curator, one is required to have a minimum of a graduate degree while work experience increases the preparation of individuals to serve. Along with technical skills and background experience in business sectors these professionals are also considered an important ingredient to the development of careers in the curating of art museums (Hein, 2006)., Many institutions of higher learning may also demand…

owe to society. In looking at the Association of Art Museum Directors and the Association of Art Museum Curators ethics and values there seems to be a pattern. Each association’s outlined principle reiterates their mission. Essentially, the ethics and values are being bused the method of achieving over all mission as an organization. For example, the Association of Art Museum Director’s mission statement is “advance the profession by cultivating leadership capabilities of directors, advocating…

collecting artifacts changed their meanings. The paintings that the Navajo use in sacred rituals, revere as extremely symbolic of their culture, and have important rituals associated with them, are now viewed by many people through a different type of painting. Clearly taking an object out of its original context and putting it in a museum context changes the object 's meaning. Museums must face this issue with every collection they have, because museums have a power to illustrate the society…

idea in mind, the cattle car stood out to me significantly. In a way, the cattle car can represent many different things about the Holocaust. It could represent the journey that the helpless society of Jewish people made from their normal lives into an unsanitary /and dangerous situation. Imagine a situation where you are basically “stacked” on top of other human beings. An interesting aspect about the cattle car was, that when the museum decided to have a cattle car, it took the museum curators…

If one were to go into someone's locker steal their phone, bookbag and a priceless watch that their late grandfather gave to them they should have everything done in their power to get their things back. In many ways the stealing of art pieces leave the museum directors and curators with the same feeling as if one took their own valuable belongings. For many reasons curators around the world are trying to retrieve back what was once theirs or their country’s. The antiquities are often taken…

They had some excellent arguments about the expectation of curators from museum audiences. Especially in regards to the simplification of museum content, which can be harmful to museum audiences and the argument in regards to curators holding a higher responsibility to the public c if the exhibit is a failure. But their unwillingness to listen to their peers’ opinion made them seem power hungry and conceited. If the curator had relinquish some of their supposed power to the other group members…

Corporate art consultants are curators who create and administer art programs for private companies. In this way, the corporate art consultant follows the traditional definition of the curator as an individual who maintains art objects in a collection. However, as the contemporary role of the curator has shifted into the practice of exhibition making and the cultural influence that comes along with it, the ability of a corporate art consultant to provide clients with objectified cultural capital…

Collectors purchase works from Gagosian for his cachet, convinced that the art is important due to its high prices regardless of its historical significance, which eventually circulates in a gallery or museum venue. He encourages curators at large-scale museums to purchase his work for verification. He urges artists to make supersized works, which translates to “supersized sale prices” (Crow). When one tyrant dealer monopolizes the art industry and continues to persuade artists into creating…

Museum curator: Hello everybody! Today we are going to take a look at the bedroom of Theodore Roosevelt. He was the 26th president of the United States and is known as one of the best. Today is actually just my first day as a tour guide, so go easy on me! (laughs nervously) Let’s see who’s on the tour today! (museum curator looks through crowd of people) Oh wow what a variety! We have a group of children on a field trip, a few families, a couple...hello! What’s your names? Couple: *silence*…

3.2.1 Curatorial practices The National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) holds the national collection of European and Irish fine art. In addition to promoting the gallery and it’s collections through exhibitions, other major functions comprise conservation, preservation, provenance research, education and assistance with investigation of the collections. This study is being carried out in cooperation with art specialists at NGI, facilitating access to their essential expertise and knowledge of…