CURATOR

Curators
- Curators are fascinated by what seems to be a conversation among artworks one that they might conduct  in our absence.
- An arrangement of spaces that encourages the viewers to enjoy conjectural interactions between artworks, to come across particular works more than once in a self-selecting journey and thus to experience them perhaps differently each time.
-Overseeing the diverse activities involved in running a gallery space
-Dealing with clients to installing exhibitions
-Artistic awareness+business acumen+interpersonal skills+practical abilities

Be a curator:
-responsible
-kind
-knowledgeable
-work together with community members in order to reflect the kinds of likes and dislikes of the people who visit the gallery.

Mission:
-to educate or teach about art. In a way, like a teacher.

Main job:
Commercial art galleries vary in style, size and purpose ethos of the gallery. Curator like a generalist, understanding finance, marketing and IT.
-manage the risks you take
-provide support to artists
-organize art shows, choosing paintings, sculptures or antique furniture and deciding where to hang or place each piece.
-in some art and a good eye
-build trusted relationships
-design learning experiences in a much broader sense than traditional approaches.
- ensuring the smooth day-too day running of the gallery
-maintaining ongoing promotion and advertising of the gallery
-assessment and selection of art work
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Curator can't do:
Modernist museum find ever-fresh ways to enable the experience of beauty-one that seems unmediated by critics, curators or external realities is inevitably shaped by the museum's own unique ways of seeking to render its hand invisible. (Terry S., 2009)

curators seem incapable of other than seeing contemporary art as anything painting-like or sculpture-like. At best, they stretch to drawing-like or cinema-like.




Terry Smith (2009), what is contemporary art?, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago