The curator had only one condition

I'm Z Holly, curator of TEDxUSC.

Rives Ladies and gentlemen, TED curator, Chris Anderson.

I dabble in design. I'm a curator of architecture and design

In 1994, when I was a curator at the Whitney Museum,

He was a curator at some British museum... or The British Museum.

This is the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, where I work as a curator.

It would've kept the curator very happy, but it wasn't going to keep us happy.

A non profit organization devoted to ideas worth spreading A message from TED Curator Chris Anderson

They hired me and in 1982 I went back to Montana as the Curator of Paleontology.

And for me as a curator, I felt proud. I felt I'd shifted the needle a little.

In a very nice and close atmosphere, the curator and some of his team meet with the speakers.

And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum if I was a museum curator,

Maybe we could give it to our curator and see if he'd be brave enough to touch the cockroach.

Here you're going to see the very highest resolution MRI scan done today, reconstructed of Marc Hodosh, the curator of TEDMED.

I feel like the privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works, the discovery of exciting works.

Every old curator who'd been in that museum had seen this wonderful specimen, put their hand in the jar, pulled it out and thought,

Now, I didn't have a degree, so I couldn't do anything, and I was the curator, I could actually curate fossils, basically put things away.

What was significant about this exhibition is the way in which it engaged me in my role as a curator, as a catalyst, for this dialogue.

McQueen's suicide, our curator of costume, Andrew Bolton, came to see me, and said, I've been thinking of doing a show on McQueen, and now is the moment.

People can tear it, tag on it, or even pee on it some are a bit high for that, I agree but the people in the street, they are the curator.

I'm showing two artists here, Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker, two of many who really form for me the essential questions that I wanted to bring as a curator to the world.

In due course, I ended up as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum, because I saw the Met as one of the few places where I could organize really big exhibitions about the subject

She's a skilled human curator who knows what material is available to her, who's able to listen to the audience, and who's able to make a selection and push people forward in one fashion or another.

One of those is a set of plans that we call Plan 28, and that is also the name of a charity that I started with Doron Swade, who was the curator of computing at the Science Museum, and also the person who drove the project to build a difference engine, and our plan is to build it.

We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of just add water expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well told narrative, what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it unpacks it for a general audience.

If the goal here was to get the DNA out and use the DNA down the track to try to bring a thylacine back, what we didn't want happening when the information was shoved into the machine and the wheel turned around and the lights flashed, was to have a wizened old horrible curator pop out the other end of the machine.