Alissa Wilkinson founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years until accepting a full-time faculty position at The King's College. She is also associate editor of Comment. Her work on pop culture, philosophy, politics, and fine art has appears in a number of publications, including Paste, Christianity Today, Prism, Patrol, WORLD, and Relevant.
Alissa harbors a not-so-secret obsession with cooking, farmer’s markets, and food policy; reads a lot of books; drinks a lot of herbal tea; and watches movies with her husband, Tom, in their tiny apartment high above the Brooklyn treetops.
From the New York Times: A New Paris, as Dreamed by Planners. Hand it to the French. Who else would pick an economic collapse as a time to unveil one of the most audacious urban plans in recent memory? Yet the 10 proposals for a new master plan for metropolitan Paris, which were unveiled last [...]
From Inside Higher Ed: The Reader. A willingness to incorporate the Kindle into my routines does not mean abandoning print, any more than giving up the habit of inscribing my name inside the cover of a book has made me any less bibliocentric. The patterns of engagement with text – the levels of concentration you [...]
From Miller-McClune: Will Critique Work for Food Most newspapers continue to cover the world of culture using freelancers and (in the case of film and television) wire-service copy to supplement the remaining staff. A few, including the Los Angeles Times, have inaugurated blogs on their Web sites to get arts news out more quickly. On [...]
From The Guardian: Playwrights are more important than politicians. So why do powerful people mesmerise me? There is a certain bond between playwrights. I suppose it’s because we have such a strange job: paid to put words into the mouths of people pretending to be someone else. And our shared concerns as playwrights – finding [...]
From the New York Times: Cultural Post at the White House. The White House declined to describe the position in detail, since Mr. Dale’s appointment has yet to be formally announced. Mr. Ivey, a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said he expected that the job would mainly involve coordinating the activities [...]
Karl Paulnack’s welcome address to parents of students at Boston Conservatory. I have come to understand that music is not part of “arts and entertainment” as the newspaper section would have us believe. It’s not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or [...]
Sweets with a Dash of Spice An interview with Brooklyn confectioners Whimsy & Spice – the first in a series of interviews with small artisanal businesses. We’ll Always Be Here By Alisa Harris Everlasting Moments is the beautiful story of a Swedish woman whose photography gives her hope. Peace Like a River: Make of It [...]
From The University Bookman: On Brooklyn’s Side. many agrarian or regionalist (the two are often unfortunately conflated) polemics often neglect the notion of vocation, or rather they universalize the notion of vocation to mean only a back-to-the-land kind of reaction. . . Brooklyn fits even less the New York stereotype. My family, for example, has [...]
From the New York Times: Michelle Obama’s Agenda Includes Healthful Eating. White House officials say the focus on healthy living will be a significant item on Mrs. Obama’s agenda, which already includes supporting working families and military spouses. As the nation battles an obesity epidemic and a hard-to-break taste for oversweetened and oversalted dishes, her [...]