At the January unveiling, a museum curator suggested that the statue showcased Confucius's political and cultural significance.
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But the artist's affinity for this narrative, notes Carnegie Museum curator Louise Lippincott, might have been more personal.
Bata Shoe Museum curator Elizabeth Semmelhack noted that over the course of history, heel heights rose when the economy fell.
For example, a seemingly random conversation I once had with a museum curator slowly and freely evolved into a TV offer.
Staying on Olkhon Island, in the middle of Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia, Simon went to look up the local museum curator.
Then, suddenly, pay dirt: Two months later museum curator James C.
The following year, Mr. Welch married the daughter of Louise Palermo, a 56-year-old museum curator who had been a pen pal while he was overseas.
Harold and Erica go to good schools, and pass through a series of haute bourgeois jobs museum curator, freelance consultant, corporate marketing functionary, author of mid-list historical biographies until, finally, the hyper-achieving Erica arrives as the chief executive of a cable company, and the ponderous Harold scores a sinecure at a neocon think tank, where he pastes David Brooks opinion columns into papers on public policy.
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The Museum's curator, the poet Michael Rosen, is currently helping decide how the exhibition spaces will be filled.
Anita Chung, the Cleveland Museum's curator of Chinese art and author of the show's catalog, has yet another take.
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"It is very important for us to have the prince here supporting us, " said Rachel Silverson, the museum's curator.
Ramirez, the museum's curator, said regardless of religious belief, people found inspiration in the cross and that is why it was included in the museum.
Poly Museum's curator Jiang Ying Chun is an archeologist by training.
Gloucester museum's archaeology curator, David Rice, said he was "surprised" by the results.
Created by Sharon Matt Atkins, the museum's managing curator of exhibitions, and Shelley Bernstein, its chief of technology, "GO" was modeled after ArtPrize, the annual event in Grand Rapids, Mich.
"Due to their small size, toylike appearance and their abundance of character, microcars tended not to be scrapped so much as put away, " writes Peter Svilans, the museum's former curator, in the catalog essay.
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Mr. DAVID SCHWARTZ (Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image): What Disney did that was really important was he teamed up with the scientist Wernher von Braun, who was really the most prominent scientist of the United States and was trying to promote the idea of space travel.
Suddenly, says Francis Grew, senior curator at the Museum of London, there was "huge interest" in the find.
Curator Paul Schimmel, the former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, recalls meeting Kelley at a rooftop barbecue.
Isla Gladstone, curator of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, believes "once captured the cat was kept in captivity, maybe as part of a menagerie".
David Schwartz, chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York says one man in particular helped launch that space craze.
This exhibition was one of his first projects, in collaboration with James Lin, a Taiwan-born curator at the museum and a specialist in the Han dynasty.
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My Policeman by Bethan Roberts tells the story of a woman who fell in love with a gay policeman having a relationship with a curator at Brighton Museum.
Francis Grew, senior curator at the museum, said the man would have been wealthy and well-respected and may even have been a "commuter" into the Roman city of Londinium.
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"One thing that became pretty evident was how many artists really anthropomorphize the skyscraper, " says Michael Darling, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Directed by Peter Reed, associate curator of the museum's department of architecture and design, the exhibition celebrates the centennial of Aalto's birth and encompasses a career of more than 50 years.
Although he's on the dollar bill now and on the quarter, "Washington would probably object, " says Douglas Mudd, curator of the museum at the American Numismatic Association in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Yvonne Markowitz, a jewelry curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, said men rarely talk about the pieces they're collecting in the way they might show off a blue-chip painting.
Those of us who worked for him, as I did, in my first job as his assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art, were charged with finding a new "ism" weekly.
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"During periods of explosive wealth and growth of resources within the private sector, the enormous surplus of wealth gravitates toward art, " observes Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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