He mentions the museums' Youth Forum scheme, now gone, which his Year 10s could sign up for and continue with through their A levels: it meant long-term involvement with curators and artists, and hands-on museum experience.
Here, curators had motley backgrounds: the Swiss Harald Szeemann was a theatre director; Americans Walter Hopps and Seth Siegelaub were a jazz booker and a plumber respectively.
Curators helped institutions collect contemporary work and were behind the major trends of that decade: participatory art, installation art and the renaissance of biennials – temporary exhibitions with global tourism mandates, more than 40 of which were inaugurated in that decade alone.
The Museum of London curators Julia Hoffbrand and Jackie Keily said they had chosen objects to illustrate both human stories and developments in detective work.
The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
Futurecity work with curators, galleries and clients from around the world, championing artists who are changing the way art is presented in an urban context.
You may be wondering how, with all these works by apparently every European artist born since 1600, the curators have found space for the splendid array of dazzling paintings by Rubens at the heart of the exhibition.
But the curators have spotted one connection I never guessed: they both painted rainbows.
One of the key battlegrounds between these two companies will be who has the best curators, but also who has the best algorithms for matching those playlists to listeners.
In the 90s, major art institutions, underfunded and hungry for the attention of donors and audiences, enlisted contemporary curators to roll out the welcome mat.
The groundbreaking curators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were dealers, artists and museum directors.
