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.
Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans is recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. We ran an article by Laura Bramon Good on the exhibit when it was at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. You can read the article here.
From The Observer: The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them. From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like [...]
From More Intelligent Life: Facts, Errors, and the Kindle. Nietzsche famously said that there are no such things as facts, only interpretations. Be that as it may, every writer knows that there are certainly such things as factual mistakes. Errors are common in all forms of media, but it is mistakes in the printed word [...]
From the New Yorker: Happy Feet. At its most rarefied, shoe shopping still takes place in hushed, pastel-carpeted salons, with salesmen (they are usually men-one doesn’t like to think too closely about why) staggering under stacks of boxes and kneeling down to insure the perfect fit before whisking away the charge plates of their waiting [...]
From the New York Times: Michael Pollan on Big Food vs. Big Insurance. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat “preventable chronic diseases.” Not all of these diseases are linked to diet – there’s smoking, for instance – but many, if not most, of [...]
From the New York Times: Subway Riders Are Greeted by a Blast of Sol LeWitt Color. “It’s one of the largest projects we’ve ever done,” said Sandra Bloodworth, director of Arts for Transit and facilities design for the authority. It is also one of the most complex. LeWitt, who died two years ago, was known [...]
From Wired: Six Fonts that Piss People Off. Recently, Ikea unveiled its new catalogue, and designers began complaining almost immediately. To laymen, the problem is probably almost invisible: Ikea has changed its official font from Futura–with its tony design pedigree–to Verdana. So what? Verdana was designed as an on-screen font for Microsoft. And while it’s [...]
From More Intelligent Life: Art and (Gross Breaches of) Etiquette. Paper Monument, a fledgling art magazine, has interviewed 30 art-world notables–critics, artists, dealers and a blogger–and has collected their answers to the same basic questions, such as “What are the rules of etiquette in the art world?” And “When does a breach of etiquette play [...]
From The New Republic: Generations. This catalogue of some of the most significant exhibitions by contemporary artists does not even begin to describe the season’s attractions. And yet a gallerygoer could feel something wanting–the thrilling power of artists to create force fields, to set off reverberations that stir passion, polemic, debate. I do not think [...]
Eyewitness News By L.L. Barkat A photo essay on New York’s Times Square and trying to sing past tragedy. Garbage as Poetry By Lindsay Crandall On garbage and language and human foundations. On the Road and In the Book By Jonathan Fitzgerald Why we connect with the road novel, what makes it alluring, and what [...]