This is evidenced by - particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom - the growth of curatorial studies and workshops.

Ongoing exhibits throughout the school year feature student works managed by senior students through their curatorial studies.

In the process, he created one of the finest collections in the country and helped make toys a serious area of curatorial study.

It offered the first course in curatorial studies in Japan in 2001.

Currently given over to graduate-thesis exhibitions by students pursuing master's degrees in curatorial studies, from June 24 to Sept. 10 it will be host to the show "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium."

The college has grafted on graduate programs in economics, environmental studies, curatorial studies and decorative arts, and it is planning a new performing arts center and student center.

While other colleges are cutting back, Bard, with about 1,000 undergraduate students, is expanding its library, has opened an innovative center for curatorial studies and is starting three new graduate programs.

Co-founded in 1990 by Marieluise Hessel and Richard Black, the Center initiated its graduate program in curatorial studies in 1994.

He is currently a professor of curatorial studies and critical thinking at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Candidates who complete the two-year program will receive degrees in modern art and curatorial studies.