'curatorial' is an English word and is used correctly.
You can use it when referring to the activities of a curator or the field of curating, which involves the selection and care of objects in a collection. For example, "The curatorial team was responsible for selecting the pieces featured in the exhibit."
The explosion of social media led to accelerated curatorial ways of thinking.
"Childhood is stolen from you with every judgment made, innocence stolen with it," wrote Kanye West in his recent "curatorial" essay for the magazine CR Fashion Book, for which he selected a portfolio of artworks by Anish Kapoor, Richard Prince and others.
"Represent" transforms what might have been little more than an exercise in curatorial affirmative action into a meditation on the burdens and possibilities of racial identity.
Its ten curatorial departments are staffed by experts dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and studying the objects they look after.
The latter has clearly spent a lot of money, but its Web site never seems to go beyond ushering passive viewers through static virtual exhibits.Where the Web promises really to excel is in breaking down the barriers between objects and information, paintings and writings and all of the other categories created for curatorial convenience rather than for simple understanding.
Now he's closely involved with the art world, and was chosen by the Durst Organisation on the grounds that his curatorial selections would be a "fitting compliment to the public space in the building"—surely the least one would hope for.His team decided that any work hung in One World Trade Center should be abstract.
The show is a "big deal", says Roberta Smith in the New York Times, and "a feat of curatorial intelligence, research and diplomacy".
Even Tony Blair (who went to school in Scotland) makes a guest appearance, with an electric guitar.The museum indeed, which makes a number of striking curatorial innovations such as the use of contemporary art and sculpture as settings for prehistoric artefacts, is anything but a one-sided verdict of Scottish history.
He also encouraged more co-operation and less competition among its 17 curatorial departments, which some saw as independent fiefdoms.
And because their emphasis has been on objects, rather than on information, paintings have been separated from writings and artefacts from both.This curatorial tradition, neatly detaching most objects from the historical context which created them, is beginning to change.
Ms Taverne took over financial management of the museum as well as responsibility for planning for its future.She began replacing the museum's curatorial fiefdoms with a more streamlined chain of command.
