Meanings
- Art experts, as a group; the elite members of the art world who determine what is considered great or important art.
That curatoriat is an institutionally powerful group, and it is for it that a lot of art tends to get made.
1995, Media Studies Journal - Volume 9, page 283 more examples
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.
2001, Odd Nerdrum, On Kitsch, →ISBN, page 34Both their standing as artists and their access to the funding they need to produce their work depend on their maintaining credibility with the curatoriat.
2013, Kate Crehan, Community Art: An Anthropological Perspective, →ISBN, page 192The curatoriat in general, especially perhaps in Britain, have a deep hostility to anything that seems too popular.
2017, John Clammer, Ananta Kumar Giri, The Aesthetics of Development: Art, Culture and Social Transformation, →ISBN
Cite this entry
curatoriat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curatoriat
“curatoriat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curatoriat. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curatoriat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curatoriat.
Source: curatoriat on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.