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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

"Many teeth from Saurichthys were once mistaken for those of an amphibian, and that misunderstanding continued well into the 20th Century," said Museum Wales curator Cindy Howells.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The Art Gallery of Ontario, under Levine, who recently got promoted to associate curator, has updated her painting’s title.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

I’ve been offered a high-powered job as an art curator in New York.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Lacking the necessary technology and expertise to answer that question, museum curators stored the mysterious fragments while competing explanations remained unresolved.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Above all, though, the commission’s recommendations faced resistance among the museum’s curators to the sort of great-man-of-history approach that Brooks and others were hankering for.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 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

I don’t see as many curators these days, but I love seeing the DJs here, at Gold Line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Too bad for the soldier that when the war broke out, curators removed The Night Watch from Het Rijksmuseum, rolling up the canvas and trucking it to a castle in the country somewhere.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse




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