curatoriat

curatoriat noun: art experts, as a group; the elite members of the art world who determine what is considered great or important art.

Noun

curatoriat

Art experts, as a group; the elite members of the art world who determine what is considered great or important art.
- That curatoriat is an institutionally powerful group, and it is for it that a lot of art tends to get made.1995, Media Studies Journal - Volume 9, page 28
- The curatoriat chooses something, points to it and in a convincing manner says: This is great art. Great art is exemplified and canonized. Art becomes exemplary because the curatoriat often displays it as an example when an artistic form or trend requires documentation.2001, Odd Nerdrum, On Kitsch, →ISBN, page 34

Both their standing as artists and their access to the funding they need to produce their work depend on their maintaining credibility with the curatoriat.2013, Kate Crehan, Community Art: An Anthropological Perspective, →ISBN, page 192:
The curatoriat in general, especially perhaps in Britain, have a deep hostility to anything that seems too popular.2017, John Clammer, Ananta Kumar Giri, The Aesthetics of Development: Art, Culture and Social Transformation, →ISBN:

What does curatoriat mean?: Curatoriat means art experts, as a group; the elite members of the art world who determine what is considered great or important art.
How do you use curatoriat in a sentence?: Both their standing as artists and their access to the funding they need to produce their work depend on their maintaining credibility with the curatoriat.
What part of speech is curatoriat?: Curatoriat is a noun.

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