This is the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, where I work as a curator.

And for me as a curator, I felt proud. I felt I'd shifted the needle a little.

In 1994, when I was a curator at the Whitney Museum, I made an exhibition called Black Male.

Maybe we could give it to our curator and see if he'd be brave enough to touch the cockroach.

I dabble in design. I'm a curator of architecture and design I happen to be at the Museum of Modern Art.

Here you're going to see the very highest resolution MRI scan done today, reconstructed of Marc Hodosh, the curator of TEDMED.

I feel like the privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works, the discovery of exciting works.

What was significant about this exhibition is the way in which it engaged me in my role as a curator, as a catalyst, for this dialogue.

Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York s Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design in all shapes and forms around the world.

Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show and tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts that backdropped the 2008 TED stage.

People can tear it, tag on it, or even pee on it some are a bit high for that, I agree but the people in the street, they are the curator.

People can tear it, tag on it, or even pee on it some are a bit high for that, I agree but the people in the street, they are the curator.

I'm showing two artists here, Glenn Ligon and Carol Walker, two of many who really form for me the essential questions that I wanted to bring as a curator to the world.

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show a href http www.moma.org exhibitions 2008 elasticmind Design and the Elastic Mind a full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now.

She's a skilled human curator who knows what material is available to her, who's able to listen to the audience, and who's able to make a selection and push people forward in one fashion or another.

Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10 minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of Afghanistan.

In due course, I ended up as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum, because I saw the Met as one of the few places where I could organize really big exhibitions about the subject I cared so passionately about.

So it creates a situation like this, where you have artists who can operate within an art space that also has an amazing view on the 22nd floor, but it also has proximity that the curator can either open or close.

In the late spring, early summer of 2010, shortly after McQueen's suicide, our curator of costume, Andrew Bolton, came to see me, and said, I've been thinking of doing a show on McQueen, and now is the moment. We have to, we have to do it fast.

Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The post black artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture and about the meaning of art itself.

One of those is a set of plans that we call Plan 28, and that is also the name of a charity that I started with Doron Swade, who was the curator of computing at the Science Museum, and also the person who drove the project to build a difference engine, and our plan is to build it.

We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of just add water expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well told narrative, what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it unpacks it for a general audience.

The US consumes 25 of the world's oil but as energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens points out onstage, the country has no energy policy to prepare for the inevitable. Is alternative energy our bridge to an oil free future? After losing 150 million investing in wind energy, Pickens suggests it isn't, not yet. What might get us there? Natural gas. After the talk, watch for a lively Q A with TED Curator Chris Anderson.