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Curatorship

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cu·ra·tor  (ky-rtr, kyr-tr)
n.
One who manages or oversees, as the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.
[Middle English curatour, legal guardian, from Old French curateur, from Latin crtor, overseer, from crtus, past participle of crre, to take care of; see curative.]
cura·tori·al (kyr-tôr-l, -tr-) adj.
cu·rator·ship n.
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Noun1.curatorship - the position of curator
berth, billet, post, situation, position, office, place, spot - a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
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The Yale Art Gallery has received the very large Charles Benenson collection and an endowed curatorship.
Whither African Art? Emerging Scholarship at the end of an age by Vogel, Susan / African Arts
In Maryland, they were able to secure about 40 curatorships representing [more than] $5 million worth of donated restorations to state-owned historic properties," said Cara Blume, who is heading up the program for the Division of Parks and Recreation.
Parks and recreation recruits curators by Parks & Recreation
The product of overly reductive curatorship, its refusal to admit those parts of a career habitually considered to be inessential made for a tightly controlled but ultimately frustrating experience.
Paul Sarkisian: Site Santa Fe by Berkovitch, Ellen / Artforum International
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