curatoriat

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curatoriat

  1. Art experts, as a group; the elite members of the art world who determine what is considered great or important art.
    • 1995, Media Studies Journal - Volume 9, page 28:
      That curatoriat is an institutionally powerful group, and it is for it that a lot of art tends to get made.
    • 2001, Odd Nerdrum, On Kitsch, →ISBN, page 34:
      The curatoriat chooses something, points to it and in a convincing manner says: This is great art. Great art is exemplified and canonized. Art becomes exemplary because the curatoriat often displays it as an example when an artistic form or trend requires documentation.
    • 2013, Kate Crehan, Community Art: An Anthropological Perspective, →ISBN, page 192:
      Both their standing as artists and their access to the funding they need to produce their work depend on their maintaining credibility with the curatoriat.
    • 2017, John Clammer, Ananta Kumar Giri, The Aesthetics of Development: Art, Culture and Social Transformation, →ISBN:
      The curatoriat in general, especially perhaps in Britain, have a deep hostility to anything that seems too popular.