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  • Of or pertaining to a curator or his office or duties.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to curator.

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  • adjective Of or relating to a curator.

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  • adjective of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator

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Examples

  • Left to right: Les, Zora, Lolly, and Bruce Robertson (my partner in curatorial crime).

    Archive 2008-03-01 Roger Sutton 2008

  • Left to right: Les, Zora, Lolly, and Bruce Robertson (my partner in curatorial crime).

    Art on the wall Roger Sutton 2008

  • I'm pleased to announce that my "curatorial" responsibilities are officially over, for I have now chosen a winner, and communicated with that winner, and communicated with Performance, and given Performance the winner's email address, which means that they can now communicate with each other and I don't have be bothered by either of them ever again.

    Enhanced Performance: Oiling the Squeaky Wheel BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • The Art of American Book Covers is easily one of Minsky's greatest works, a stunning example of critical art history that is free of any kind of curatorial jargon, fundamentally respectful of our intelligence, yet clear, accessible and useful.

    Jules Siegel: A Joy-Filled Book on the Art of the Book Cover 2010

  • Only the coterie of failed academics and other talentless miscreants who populate the "curatorial" and institutional world of contemporary art believe that there's ever been a "line between art and commerce" in the post-Medieval world.

    Challenging the line between art and commerce is cute until it's not cute. Ann Althouse 2009

  • By reassembling several hundred pieces from around the world, the exhibition creates a kind of curatorial miracle, restoring in part what the Punitive Expedition had scattered.

    Dani Karavan's Monumental Work 2008

  • You should feel like you need to think any of this looks like any kind of curatorial practice you know.

    Deeplinking Deeplinking 2010

  • You should feel like you need to think any of this looks like any kind of curatorial practice you know.

    Deeplinking Deeplinking 2010

  • So for my own hub I use this special kind of curatorial calendar mainly for recurring events.

    Jon Udell Jon Udell 2010

  • The hopes for this gallery can fill more than the space between the new sculpture building and Edgewood Avenue; it has the potential to become a venue for a new kind of curatorial project in Yale's art scene whose focus is not having a focus.

    Yale Daily News: Latest Issue Diana Mellon 2009

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