I would recommend going through the museum's website, reading up on their most recent exhibitions. This will help you to be in the loop when the time comes to speak about yourself as a potential member of the curatorial (or any!) department. That being said, do not expect to be tested on your kno...
It depends! When I was there, the department was working on the Laura Owens retrospective, which was a big show with lots of moving parts. I worked on organizing their database, preparing acquisition proposals, building models of exhibition space, making power points for meetings--which is kind o...