campaigning

Traditionally the curator is a person who cares for the objects/artworks in collections. However contemporary art thinks of the curator as the person who transmits and frames the artwork to the wider public via exhibitions, happenings etc. A modern curator is a producer more than anything else and I think that there are lots of parallels with theatre production. In English the unofficial verb 'to curate' depends on the active use of it in a living context to be meaningful.