Museum curator is one of those glamorized jobs protagonists in rom-coms always seem to have. Natalia Di Pietrantonio, Seattle Art Museum’s first curator of South Asian art, acknowledges the trope. But her day involves sending a lot more emails than would make for good TV, not that being a curator at a major art institution is mundane. In her position, Di Pietrantonio assumes an amalgamation of roles—academic, diplomat, conservationist—negotiating a number of competing cultural and economic interests. But first, coffee.
7am It takes Di Pietrantonio a solid 30 minutes to really wake up. A medium-dark roast pour-over eases the way.
10am After catching up on correspondence
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