But let's face it; the only people prepared to spend three days wandering around an international art festival are curators with their own international festivals to commission.
The reverse was true last year when the rock producer Steve Albini was curator with his band, Shellac.
Museum directors everywhere tend to be curators first, with most cutting their director's teeth on small institutions before moving on to bigger ones.
And in late October, Emmylou Harris is curator for a pop series with a folk and country accent.
The increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in museums is providing curators with new opportunities for the display of cultural heritage content, making it possible to merge real and digital works of art in a coherent exhibition space.
On the museum's Web site, it was stated that "you are the curator," with the influence to move from "URL to IRL" (in real life).
Dunning is co-curator, with Paul Gravett, of what will be the UK's biggest exhibition of British comics, taking in everything from newly discovered Victorian comics to modern classics such as V for Vendetta.
Indeed, there is "an Automat recipe cult," said Laura Shapiro, who is co-curator, with Rebecca Federman, of the current "Lunch Hour NYC" exhibition at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.
She is a curator with the artist Eric Fischl of "America: Now and Here," a mobile exhibition on American identity since 9/11; the exhibition is to travel the country on specially designed trucks in 2010.
Soon enough, everyone was a curator, with even the scrapyard workers calling up to report strange objects they had found.
