Curators

It's the curator’s job to do exactly that. Art curators are responsible for curating exhibitions, finding pieces for collections, researching their subject matter, and sharing their insights with the public.

Curated by Casey Lesser, Artsy’s Director of Content, Editor-in-Chief, and Chief Curator.

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Rather than managing a collection for organisms like plants or birds, as most curators do, the museum’s new AI curators are tasked with developing machine learning tools to study specimens in ways that were previously impractical or impossible.

Curators will have a vision of a display and how they get there may involve extensive research (books, archives, in person studio and collection visits) and simultaneously fundraise for said vision as well. It involves a lot of writing (loan justification letters to lenders, exhibition related text, object related text, etc.) as well as public speaking for an array of constituents.

Traditionally, curators, who are trained experts in their fields, have been responsible for the selection, organization, interpretation and display of museum collections. However, with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), a question arises: could an AI run a museum?