Writing about displays of sculpture: historiography and some current questions by Malcolm Baker

“…These questions are examined here in terms of changing approaches within the discipline of art history as well as the options open to the curator.…”
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Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic at the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY), retrospective or exhibition? by Bruno Chalifour

“…Nathan Lyons (1930 – 2016) lived in Rochester NY from 1957 to his death. He was a curator then an assistant director of the George Eastman Museum (1957 – 1969), working with Beaumont Newhall and Minor White, the co-founder of the Society for Photographic Education (1963) and Oracle (international conference of photo historians and curators since 1983), the founder of Visual Studies Workshop (1969) and its magazine (Afterimage, 1972 – 2018), and a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts (president 1976 – 1991). …”
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The Making of History – or the Synergy Effect Between Contract Archaeology, the Conservation Institute and Museums by Vivian Smits

“…The choices made by the conservator during the conservation process are as important in the making of history as any decision made by the archaeologist, the museum curator, historian, etc. As part of my research project in GRASCA I am addressing the issue of how the practice of conservation can and should contribute to the stake-holders common goal of communicating the past.…”
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Droit d’auteur et restauration des œuvres à caractère technologique by Anne-Laure Moya-Plana

“…The goal is to establish, as soon as the work of art is acquired by the museum, a dialogue between the artist and the curator or the restorer so as to anticipate any conflict and fix the outlines of the future restoration in a contract. …”
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NETWORK TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED TRAINING COURSE by Vyacheslav A. Starodubtsev, Antonina A. Kiseleva

“…The article examines the model of the blended process of the formal and non-formal professional growth of higher education instructors and the organization of the network course of teacher’s training with the participation of content’s curator. The need of creating the mechanisms of acknowledgement (validation) and certification of the non-formally acquired competences of scientific-pedagogical personnel of higher education is shown.…”
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À quoi pensent les archives de la jouabilité? by Hugo Montembeault, Simon Dor

“…In that regard, player communities and their collective archives play a crucial role as curator and mediator of the videoludic heritage. However, this role still needs to be better understood. …”
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Les biocides dans les collections – persistances toxiques, relectures critiques et nouvelles pratiques by Lucie Monot, Isabel Garcia Gomez, Lotte Arndt

“…In this interview, the authors (two curator-restorers at the Musée d'ethnographie in Geneva, and a museology researcher) examine museum conservation practices and their aims in the light of the means employed and their sometimes unexpected effects. …”
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L’universalité de la sylloge épigraphique de Gaetano Marini (1742-1815) : le statut philologique des monogrammes du premier millénaire chrétien by Isabelle Mathian

“…He was, however, a first-rate epigraphist, palaeographer, archivist and curator: not only for the quality of his research, but also for his place at the Vatican, at the heart of the museum developments and the vicissitudes of the Napoleonian confiscations. …”
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Great Excavations: Methodological considerations arising after a major archaeological infrastructure project for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme by Alex Smith, Emma West, Stephen Sherlock, Kasia Gdaniec, David Bowsher

“…To deliver a more balanced methodological evaluation, perspectives from different project stakeholders are captured here: those of the client (National Highways and A14 IDT), principal archaeological contractor (MHI) and curator (Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Team; CHET).…”
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The Restoration of Paintings at the Imperial Hermitage (Saint-Petersburg) at the Beginning of the 19th Century by Mariam Nikogosyan

“…The beginning of the 19th century was a period of formation of restoration school in Russia. F.K.Labensky, Curator of the Hermitage Picture Gallery from 1797 onwards till 1850, arranged a restoration studio with a permanent staff working on Imperial painting collection.  …”
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Notes about Possessing a Heritage in a Komi Village by Art Leete

“…I attempt to demonstrate how the local museum curator, Olga Shlopova, treats her fairy tales, museum exposition and collection of local heritage. …”
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The Contemporary Museum as a Site for Displaying Values by Mare Kõiva

“…The issues of digitalization and preservation and the role of the exhibition curator and the person represented on displays have increased in the museology of the past few decades. …”
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Des antiquités égyptiennes au musée. Modèles, appropriations et constitution du champ de l’égyptologie dans la première moitié du xixe siècle, à travers l’exemple croisé du Louvre... by Juliette Tanré-Szewczyk

“…This study begins with the 1808 opening of the Townley Gallery, first museum rooms fully-devoted to Ancient Egypt, in the British Museum, and ends with Samuel Birch, curator in charge of Egyptian antiquities in the BM from 1836 to 1885. …”
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TEACHER AS A PRINCIPLE ELEMENT OF THE “FLIPPED CLASSROOM” TECHNOLOGY by T. A. Borzova

“…The article shows the important role of a higher education teacher who is at the same time a scientist, a counselor, a manager of electronic educational environment, a tutor, and a curator for a new generation of future specialists in different fields. …”
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Genetic Polymorphisms in RNF138, ABCA1 and ESRRG-GPATCH2 Genes and their Role in Insulin Resistance Risk among Normal BMI Individuals in Indian Population: A Case-control Study by Sabitha Thummala, Sarah Fathima, Nithya Kruthi, Junaid Ahmed Khan Ghori, Katherine Saikia, Vivek Belde, Balamurali Andiyakkal Rajendran, Rahul Ranganathan

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«The exhibition opened in a doubly non-random place...» by Yu. Z. Kantor

“…A conversation with Yu. Z. Kantor, the curator of this museum project, that took place in October 2023, is devoted to its significance and substantive features.…”
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Rocky Start of Dinosaur National Monument (USA), The World's First Dinosaur Geoconservation Site by Kenneth Carpenter

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When the Future Becomes no Longer a Threat but, More, an Opportunity by Terry Trickett

“…Architects are already involved in creating virtual flights of fancy but holding the reins of all those who are unleashing the power of generative artificial intelligence will be the “metaverse curator”–a completely new role to match the task of building “a new and better world”. …”
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Information system on microbial collections as a part of bioresource collections portal for Russia’s FASO organizations: a working protocol by F. V. Kazantsev, A. A. Smirnova, A. S. Rozanov, Yu. E. Uvarova, D. A. Afonnikov, S. E. Peltek, S. A. Lashin

“…The portal’s graphical interface allows users, both registered and unregistered, to receive the following information about collections of microorganisms: a list of collections represented in the database, contact details of the organization and information about the curator of the collection, summary statistics for each collection, as well as information on storage units. …”
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