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Welcome to my website. I'm Cristian, a Romanian-American museum professional based in New York City. Blending theater creativity with a multidisciplinary scholarly approach, including memory and aesthetic studies, I craft meaningful content, displays, and experiences that educate and excite.

For nearly a decade, I was part of the curatorial team of The New York Historical. I've had the privilege of working with some of the best in the business, developing, curating, and coordinating a wide range of exhibitions. Along the way, I've explored every corner of this incredible city and listened to the stories of hundreds of New Yorkers, many immigrants just like me. I researched diverse subjects, met amazing artists and curious collectors, took deep dives in archives, and discovered objects and artworks that are now in the New York Historical's collection.

Curator's Vision is my way of stepping out independently as a curator, content developer, researcher, and consultant. It's a showcase for my past and present work and a platform for exciting new projects. It is also a new avenue for networking and collaboration between Eastern European and American professionals in the cultural space. With the experience gained in New York's first museum, I look forward to supporting emerging immigrant artists, museum practitioners, educators, and storytellers.

Even if you stumbled here by chance, I'm happy to connect! Looking for a talented art director, conservator, or rights specialist? I likely know just the person.

Enjoy exploring the site, and feel free to get in touch!

Cristian (he/him)

gallery with paper dresses, political campaign posters and large repro graphics of political campaigns.

Wide gallery view showing display of lightbulbs, computers, hanging satellite and a dome.

Gallery view showing celestial globe, manuscripts, tarot cards. Solar system hanging from the ceiling.

visitor in front of a display of tattoo flash and painting by Norman Rockwell showing tattooist.

Display of 19th century Turkish costume, painting and display case containing Bible purchased by Mark Twain

Gallery view showing costumes, hot-dog hat, deli artifacts, photography and hanging neon signs.

Round display case with Harry Houdini artifacts and large screens playing his escapes.

Bronze statue head of Martin Luther King Jr.

display of portable transistor radios from the 1950s-1960s.

Gallery view with rock & roll posters. Center display with LPs, record player and hanging LPs.

Church bell staged in front of large reproduction graphic depicting a church. Portrait paintings to the left and right of the display.

Neon sign spelling Dairy and case with Ratner's mug and menus.

Double hung display of artworks on center and side walls.

two large sideshow banners showing tattoo artists at work

small 3D printed objects in 3 square vertical cases

Gallery view with hanging magic hat and manuscripts in cases. Herbarium display containing gnome prop, hanging plants and a book display.

Artworks hanging on left, right, and backwalls of a gallery with two display cases containing artworks and manuscripts, center.

Visitors looking at photographs, and playing with a touchscreen interactive. A hot-dog hat and posters on display.

Touchscreen interactive, display cases with manuscripts, and stereocamera. Large repro map and paintings on the wall.

Visitors watching tattoo demonstration in museum gallery.

four vinyl records from the 1960s and 70s of women stand up comedians

Gallery view with photo reportage on left and right walls, ephemera centered in cases and "I AM A MAN" Civil Rights posters.

Gallery entrance with small display case in the front. Case contains photograph, vaccine vial and COVID vaccination card of Dr. Sandra Lindsay.