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5 unusual facts about curator


Aldona Jonaitis

Aldona Jonaitis is the director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and an author who has published widely on Native American art.

Curator: The Museum Journal

Curator: The Museum Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the California Academy of Sciences.

Ferdinand Ferdinandovitsch Morawitz

He was one of the prominent entomologists associated with the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science where his brother August Feodorovitsh Morawitz (22 August 1837 in St. Petersburg – 16 September 1897 in Blankenburg) was Curator of the insect collections.He was a member of the Russian Entomological Society.

Jean Launois

The Curator of the Museum, Léonce Bénédite, received permission from the Undersecretary of Arts to purchase 12 of Launois’ drawings for 500 French francs.

William Carl Burger

He served as Chair of the Botany Department at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1978-1985 and remains Curator Emeritus of Vascular Plants.


Amelia Jones

Amelia Jones (born July 14, 1961) is an American art historian, art critic and curator specializing in feminist art, body/performance art, video art and Dadaism.

Amnon Barzel

He was appointed Curator at the Venice Biennale for the Israeli Pavilion 1976 to 1980 where he presented Dani Karavan, Menashe Kadishman, Micha Ullman and Moshe Gershuni.

Badge Man

In 1982 Gary Mack, the longtime curator and archivist for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (the former Texas School Book Depository) first claimed to discover the "Badge Man" figure.

Bédarieux

Eugène Vaillé (1875–1959): French postal history expert and first curator of the French Postal Museum (musée postal de France), later the Museum of the Post Office (musée de La Poste).

Bruce Munro

In an article in the Financial Times, the curator, Turner prize judge and broadcaster Richard Cork called Bruce Munro's Light Shower 'spectacular'.

Călin

Călin Dan (born 1955), Romanian artist, theorist and curator

Carl P. Daw Jr.

Now Curator of Hymnological Collections and Adjunct Professor of Hymnology at Boston University School of Theology, he previously was Executive Director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada from 1996-2009.

Colin Defries

The engine now belongs to Museum Victoria, where it is regarded by the curator, David Crotty, as "one of the most significant aeronautical artefacts" in the collection.

Cornelis Bas

In 1953, he began working at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, as curator for the fungi, in particular, the Agaricales.

CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss

Currently the following researchers are working with CRUMB: Sarah Cook, Verina Gfader, Beryl Graham, Axel Lapp, Adinda van 't Klooster, Dominic Smith.

Culture Inside

In 2008 they began working with close friend and curator Frank Shifreen to open an office in New York City at 290 Elizabeth Street, #1R.

Directors Lounge

Frequent curator-contributors have included filmmakers Alexei Dmitriev (Russia) and Shaun Wilson (Australia) as well as the late Heiko Daxl (Germany) together with Ingeborg Fülepp (Croatia), both media artists.

Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit

Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (1887-Hyères, 1975) was a French painter and art curator.

Florence S. Jacobsen

As a church curator, Jacobsen supervised the restoration of many church buildings, including the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City; the E. B. Grandin building in Palmyra, New York; the Brigham Young home in St. George, Utah; the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara, Utah; the Newell K. Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio; and the interior of the Manti Utah Temple.

George Francis Dow

The John Ward House was moved to its present site in 1910 and restored by the Peabody Essex Museum, under the direction of curator and early preservationist George Francis Dow.

H.D.

The early models for the Imagist group were from Japan, and H.D. often visited the exclusive Print Room at the British Museum in the company of Richard Aldington and the curator and poet Laurence Binyon in order to examine Nishiki-e prints that incorporated traditional Japanese verse.

Henry William Carless Davis

In 1913 he took the Chichele lectureship in foreign history and became a curator of the Bodleian Library in 1914.

Herbert James Walton

ex Pampanini, discovered and collected by Walton at Gyangtse on the British Expedition to Tibet, was named for him by the Scottish botanist James Drummond, curator of the herbarium at the Calcutta Royal Botanic Gardens.

Ilona Hubay

In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial library (Landesbibliothek) in Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a curator of the collection of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

James L. Reveal

Reveal is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, adjunct professor at Cornell University's Department of Plant Biology and honorary curator at the New York Botanical Garden.

Jean Bassange

Musée Vivenel holds his only surviving work, an Adoration of the Shepherds, rediscovered by that museum's curator Éric Blanchegorge - this painting inspired a work by Simon Vouet, later engraved by François Perrier.

Joseph Judge

Another son, Joseph Mitchell Judge, is curator of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum.

Juba Kalamka

He has been a speaker, panelist, and curator for numerous organizations and conferences, among them the San Francisco Black Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, GLAAD, Hip Hop as a Movement at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Burning Closets/Working Our Way Home at Oberlin College.

Judith E. Stein

Consulting Curator for the Pennsylvania Convention Center since 1995, she has supervised commissioned works by Jones and Ginzel, Mei-ling Hom, Judy Pfaff, John Scott, among others.

Keith Kissack

He was also Curator of the Monmouth Museum, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Little Bealings

The Grove, an old house and estate in the village, was the childhood home of Sidney Colvin, the curator, critic, and great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Mackle

Tony Mackle (born 1946), New Zealand art historian and curator

Marcel Aubert

He succeeded Vitry as chief curator in 1940 and was soon named senior curator of the National Museums, a post that he occupied until his retirement in 1955, as well as being curator of the Musée Rodin and the Institut de France's Musée Condé in the Chateau de Chantilly.

Mount Ritchie

Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1970-71, after A. Ritchie, curator of fossils at the Australian Museum, Sydney, a member of the VUWAE party that discovered important sites of fossil fish in this Skelton Neve area.

New Indian Ridge Museum

Matt Nahorn is a 2008 graduate of Lake Ridge Academy who has held the title of museum founder and curator since his youth.

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture

Among the more notable directors or deans to have led the school are music composer Morton Feldman and artist/critic/curator Robert Storr.

Nicola Filippo

Early supporters and patrons of Nicola Filippo’s art include a longtime friend and companion writer and producer Gerald Ayres, art historian Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, curator Lisa Lyons and film maker Agnes Varda.

Nicole Duplaix

She discovered her passion for otters while volunteering at the Bronx Zoo, where the zoo's curator introduced her to these endangered sea and river mammals.

Oleg Tistol

At the end of 1988 Tistol and Reunov in cooperation with the curator Olga Sviblova start to exhibit their works in Glasgow, Reykjavík, Helsinki.

Panagbenga Festival

In 1996, archivist and curator Ike Picpican suggested that the festival be renamed as Panagbenga, a Kankanaey term that means "a season of blossoming, a time for flowering".

Parkhurst

Charles Percy Parkhurst (1913–2008), American museum curator who recovered works stolen by Nazis

Raleigh Ashlin Skelton

During a sabbatical leave in 1962-63, he served as consultant and Acting Map Curator at Harvard University in the Widener Library.

Robert Raven

Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum.

Roppongi Hills Mori Tower

British-born David Elliott served as the museum's director until he resigned in late 2006, and Fumio Nanjo assumed the position.

The Art Life

The program featured interviews with international artists exhibiting in the Biennale of Sydney including among others Pierre Huyghe, George Bures Miller, Dora Garcia and the curator of the 2008 exhibition Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

The Comics We Loved, Selection of 20th Century Comics and Creators from the Region of Former Yugoslavia

"In this book, these intrepid, discriminating compilers have realised an exceptional achievement by combing diligently through thousands of pages of comics and comics reviews to distil a captivating alphabet of artists and writers who have shaped and enhanced not only the comics of their homeland but in several cases the comics of the world." — Paul Gravett, writer, curator, international comics historian, director of Comica Festival, London

Theodric Romeyn Beck

He served as the Principal of The Albany Academy from 1817 to 1848, where he encouraged the future curator of the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Henry, to enroll as a student and later serve as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in 1826.

Théophile Marion Dumersan

In that year, aged 16, whilst his family was distressed by the Reign of Terror, Théophile found work under Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison, curator of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques de la Bibliothèque royale.

Thomas Devaux

In the words of Anne Biroleau-Lemagny, General Curator for 21st Century Contemporary Art Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), "Thomas Devaux is the author of several ambitious and complex series in which so many fundamental values like evolution in photography come into play. The photography’s index value cannot be denied. It is indeed a direct shot but a shooting immediately considered as a fragment of a future reconstruction.".

W. M. Hunt

During his time as director of photography at Ricco/Maresca gallery and as former curator at Hasted Hunt, W.M. Hunt debuted and represented artists including Wilson Bentley, Elinor Carucci, Luc Delahaye, Jean-Paul Goude, Lisette Model, Erwin Olaf, Eugene Richards, Martin Schoeller, Alex Webb, Joel-Peter Witkin and others.

Weewerk

It was founded in 2002 as an art-and-music salon series in the apartment of Teenage USA Recordings partner Phil Klygo and artist-curator Germaine Koh.

World Erotic Art Museum Miami

In 2011 WEAM premiered the first US exhibition of rare erotic Rembrandt Etchings, In 2012 the curator Helmut Schuster arranged the first Solo show of Helmut Newton in Florida in Cooperation with the MDM in Salzburg.


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