How curating has changed art and how art has changed curating: an examination of the emergence contemporary curatorship. Once considered a mere caretaker for co

The author researched ten museums founded prior to 1870, using primary sources. Those chosen comprised a geographically diverse sample of pre-1870 American muse

"Curators and Culture "argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.

Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cult

Now that we ‘curate’ even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture?