Most curators specialize in a particular field, such as botany, art, or history. Those who work in large institutions may be highly specialized. A large natural history museum, for example, might ...

Thomas Hoving was a distinguished curator of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Making the Mummies Dance, Hoving wrote revealingly about two curator traits: (1) His curators were ...

Amid rapid changes in the art world, curators are expected to go beyond their conventional duties, challenging norms and introducing new paradigms. For example, the late Swiss curator Harald ...