Your thinking — that the curator isn't important, and the artist is the one worthy of celebration — makes sense when the bottleneck is in creating and not curating. But we are entering a new period where the bottleneck will be curation. Young people will celebrate brilliant curators and other kinds of creative meta artists.

It is important to understand the reasons for why we value things a given way, instead of what you are doing which is just extending the status quo thinking uncritically.

When fast food made access to warm savory flavors cheap and near-instant, did sit-down restaurants become an archaic concept?

I feel insulted by your assertion that I'm thinking uncritically.

How does one curate an uninspired infinity of junk?

Is generated art really much of an improvement over watching a binary counter tick away in the hopes it lands on an interesting picture?

In art, the process is just as important as the result... maybe more so.

DJ culture ist almost exactly that. Curation over creation.

You can totally create something impressive by combining the best junk, though.

Found art sculptures are already a thing.

Arguably someone like Anna Wintour is already your celebrated brilliant curator. Or Criterion. If you want to stretch it, many photographers - the scene was already there, they just chose the framing.

We already entered the era of "more art than you know what to do with" with recorded mass media and (especially) the internet.

Why can’t an AI be the curator too?

It will be! No doubt.

At the basic level the artist chooses what to include and what to exclude from their base? Similar surely to the curator?