By 1986, it had changed its name to the New England Science Center and expanded its collections so vastly -- they included stuffed lions, live polar bears and a planetarium -- that it had lost much of its sense of a curatorial mission.
When people expressed disappointment at the gender disparity, Vivid stated its curatorial mission was to provide "a compelling lineup each year representing the best in contemporary music both across Australia and internationally".
From being a charity with a curatorial mission to preserve the national film archive and deliver cultural services to the public, it will become a strategic agency to boost the film industry and hand out lottery funds to film-makers.
Water, daylight, gravity and salt air have taken their toll as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- improvising a curatorial mission no one could have imagined -- has transformed the abandoned Tower Air hangar, five miles from the Atlantic Ocean, into a storehouse, conservation workshop, temporary museum and shrine.
But it does not need money that diverts the institution from its core missions or handcuffs its curatorial independence in any way.
This year's installment, "Somewhere Out There," aims wide; as the members of its curatorial team, Milka Djordjevich, Jeff Larson, Chris Peck and Anna Sperber, note in a mission statement, a goal in casting such a broad net is "to discover what sort of strange gooey crystal may precipitate".
As Martin tells The Creators Project, her curatorial decisions were guided by TATTER's mission statement: "to promote the consciousness of cloth by considering, and celebrating cloth's intrinsic and essential relationship in human life through portals that include but are not limited to: art, shelter, comfort, science, commerce, and culture".
But his curatorial zeal has, perhaps inevitably, led to an ever-expanding mission.
The curatorial commentary of contextualizing these works within the institution's mission of engagement on social issues recasts their subjects with a more political trajectory.
The curatorial commentary of contextualising these works within the institution's mission of engagement on social issues recasts their subjects with a more political trajectory.
