curate1
/ˈkjʊərət
/- Before joining Holy Rood he was assistant curate at St George's Church in Tyldesley.
- His first appointment, after further studies in Rome, was as assistant curate in a rustic hamlet 15 miles east of Krakow.
Origin
Middle English: from medieval Latin curatus, from Latin cura 'care'.
The word curate, ‘an assistant to a parish priest’, comes from medieval Latin curatus, from Latin cura ‘care’ (because the parishioners are in his care), the source of a number of words including cure (Middle English), curator (Late Middle English), accurate (late 16th century) ‘done with care’, and secure (Late Middle English) ‘free from care’. You can describe something that is partly good and partly bad as a curate's egg. This is one of those rare expressions whose origin can be precisely identified. A cartoon in an 1895 edition of the magazine Punch features a meek curate at the breakfast table with his bishop. The caption reads: ‘BISHOP: “I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones.” CURATE: “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!” ’ Only ten years later the phrase had become sufficiently familiar to appear in a publication called Minister's Gazette of Fashion: ‘The past spring and summer season has seen much fluctuation. Like the curate's egg, it has been excellent in parts.’
curate2
/kjʊ(ə)ˈreɪt/- He has had ten years of museum experience curating exhibitions, commissioning new works, and developing artist residency programs.
- Plus, I am really excited to be guest curating a large exhibition from the museum's wonderful American Folk Art Collection.
- Over the past decade, my father has been slowly curating a collection of AIDS posters from all over the world, for the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda.
- The Observer is media partner of this year's Meltdown festival, which is curated by Patti Smith.
- It's a great insane ending to a brilliantly curated day of music.
- The concert is part of this Meltdown Festival curated by Morrissey.
- It's a curated platform with 225,000 apps.
- Mr Hirschorn said that people not only want to connect when using a network but they also enjoy getting credit for sharing or curating information.
- It appears that consumers like the integrated, curated systems and platforms that Apple has created.
Derivatives
curation
- I learned some important lessons in curating video installations last weekend and hope future events like this receive better treatment in both curation and post-event publicity.
- Her curation of the exhibition fused the pristine austerity of Chelsea minimalism with cinephile extravagance.
- Her curation resulted in several outstanding exhibitions of visual art from the accession countries.
Origin
Late 19th century: back-formation from curator.