curatorial
Americanadjective
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For this imaginative survey, E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, curator in the museum’s Department of Musical Instruments, has drawn from 10 of the museum’s curatorial departments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The charity's conservation, curatorial and learning director, Matt Thompson, said there was "something genuinely sad about the idea of this tradition disappearing".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
In this Jubilee Year of St. Francis, curatorial miracles, it seems, are possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
She underwrote curatorial travel, including a 1997 trip to the Johannesburg Biennial, where a cohort of American curators, among them Nancy Spector and Thelma Golden, encountered a genuinely global art world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Out of a litter of well-bred pups belonging to this variety, the greater part will at once assume a curatorial attitude toward a flock.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
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