Posts Tagged ‘Curator’

Curator.

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

As Alex Williams points out in a recent NY Times article, “curate”, the latest word of choice among trendsetters, implies a lifestyle of good aesthetics and culture. Once only used in art-historical circles, the term is now widely embraced and applicable outside of the museums’ walls. A great curator will pull together great works of art into a unified collection that means something—not only in an educational sense, but in an aesthetic sense as well. Now take this idea and apply it to other media: music, home décor, personal styling…there are so many great curators who make our lives so much more pleasurable. Who doesn’t want to look in the mirror and think “Damn, I’m looking so good today…”