How to use curator in a sentence
19 example sentences · noun
Curator means a person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo. Example: “The museum curator said that the sword originated from the Yamato period in Japan.”
Examples of curator by meaning
nounA person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library...
- The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.1975, Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
- Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 3
More sentences with curator
- The museum curator said that the sword originated from the Yamato period in Japan.From the entry Yamato
- The museum curator went to the shelf and pulled down an ancient metering device.From the entry metering
- The curators took preservative actions to maintain the ancient collection.From the entry preservative
- How do artists and curators come up with titles for exhibitions?2013 September 25, Jonathan Jones, “Dissecting the Exploding Whale: why do modern art shows have odd names?”, in The Guardian. From the entry wacky
- “Things are looked at very cyclically, not in a linear way,” one curator told The Washington Post.2004 December 12, Christopher Shea, “Nonhegemonic Curating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry cyclically
- Gregory led the excavations alongside marine archaeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch, who is also a curator at the National Museum.2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN. From the entry Andreas
- Pat Hardy, the museum’s curator of paintings, prints and drawings, noted that the solid, moustache-sporting Conan Doyle looks distinctly Dr.2014 May 22, Jill Lawless, “Sherlock Holmes is focus of London museum show”, in Albany Democrat-Herald, volume 148, number 122, Albany…. From the entry Dr. Watson-ish
- The society’s curators did not disassemble any memorials, but worked with shrinekeepers who sought a more permanent home for their materials.2002 March 8, Glenn Collins, “Vessels of a City’s Grief: Displays From Sept. 11 Form a Museum Exhibition”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry shrinekeeper
- 'It is rather odd about the book,' volunteered the curator, pointing to a worn volume of pocket size.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry unfalteringly
- In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach.2007 January 19, Grace Glueck, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry Americas
- This quirky realm is mostly populated by librarians, archivists and museum curators, plus the occasional anxious scientist and panicky megacorporate record clerk.2004 July 10, Bruce Sterling, “Delete our cultural heritage? The world is suffering from a dark and silent phenomenon known as 'digital…. From the entry digital decay
- "We acquire entire collections of materials for research purposes," explains Saundra Taylor, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington.2002 April 14, Lev Grossman, “Catalog This”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 May 2021, Education Life, page 26. From the entry realia
- In tow he had a mean silver fox, a curator who was programming an encyclopedic exhibition of the anti-epoch to which Marcus and I belonged at a major museum.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry silver fox
- The exhibition’s story-loaded hand-made works include the handpainted pod collection by Brett, a Brisbane-based artist, curator, writer and proud Wakka Wakka, Butchulla and Gurang Guran woman.2020 November 13, Janice Breen Burns, “At last, Bendigo frocks up for Indigenous fashion's bold new wave”, in The Sydney Morning Herald. From the entry eye-poppingly
- The Museum of Modern Art, for example, approves requests to view undisplayed work only from curators, scholars and auction house professionals, a policy common among museums.2009 March 19, Geraldine Fabrikant, “The Good Stuff in the Back Room”, in New York Times. From the entry undisplayed
- The prerock tradition has acquired so many layers of cultural implication that singers who take it too seriously tend to sound more like curators than entertainers.2007 May 14, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry prerock
- Beccaloni brought his centipede back to the Natural History Museum in London, where he works as a curator of orthopteroids, an order of insects which include crickets and praying mantises.2016 July 1, Oliver Holmes, The Guardian. From the entry orthopteroid
Meaning of curator
- noun A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
- noun One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
- noun A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
Questions about curator in a sentence
- How do you use curator in a sentence?
- Curator is used as a noun. For example: “The museum curator said that the sword originated from the Yamato period in Japan.”
- What is a short sentence with curator?
- “The curators took preservative actions to maintain the ancient collection.”
- What does curator mean?
- Curator means a person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
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