Meaghan is the Publisher of The Curator. She serves a variety of organizations through her consulting firm MaKeR Projects.
The Curator Interviews a Curator
Meaghan Ritchey with Dr. Daniel A. Siedell
Hearing stories from another voice, even if tinged with unmistakable NPR idiosyncrasy, is a welcome afternoon respite, a dual sense of intimacy and escape once the heavy-lifting of the morning’s creative work was done.
Has the art of our times adequately grappled with the events that left the whole world changed?
From the Roster: Beñat Iglesias Lopez
“I feel it is not my responsibility to tell stories through my work but to present the necessary elements so people can build their own.” — Beñat Iglesias Lopez
CALL FOR PAPERS: Festival of Faith and Music
We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Music to solicit academic papers that will subsequently be published on the site.
From the Roster: Justin K. Sorensen
“I have the impression that I may be inspecting a large area only eventually to exclude it from conversation.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
This Tuesday our feature covers Colorado-based mixed-media, assemblage artist Jeremy Grant.
Jay Walker is a Philadelphia based multi-disciplinary artist- creating tape installations, mixed media painting/drawings, and carved sculptures.
From the Roster: Nicole Marie Mueller
…pursuing a balance of chaos and control in repetitious patterns
From the Roster: Casey Reed Johnson
…in the juxtaposition of the physical and the unseen.
Bibb on his recent exhibition ‘The Redemption of Rubbish: Found Object Constructions and Installations’ at Point Gallery
From the Roster: Mark Sprinkle
Mark Sprinkle on Through the Eyes of a Shepherd: Seeing the Incarnation through Animal Imagery, his exhibition at Wheaton College.
From the Roster: Jesse Lee Wilson
Jesse Lee Wilson’s practice grows out of the intersection of social engagement with design, architecture, and contemporary art.
From the Roster: Alison Stigora
Alison Stigora, a Philadelphia based artist, explores creation through visceral materials, site-specific fabrications, and drawing.
“Will We Talk or Shall We Just Gaze? ” is recent artwork by Janna Dyk.
Compelled by anxious fingers, Lindsay Kolk makes delicate, fragile and oftentimes tedious art.
From the Roster: Wayne Brezinka
After meeting at the Laity Lodge this March, Wayne and Meaghan Ritchey caught up about Wayne’s lifelong practice of piecing objects and stories together.
Sylvan is new work by Reid Strelow now on display at the First Things offices in NYC
From the Roster: Joshua Cave Makes
A series of paintings by Joshua Cave
Selected quotes by Donna Tartt
An immersive installation by Rebecca Locke
Wayne Adams is Speaking in Tongues
Objects and images and the unrelenting voice of interpretation…
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Here’s a smattering of some of this week’s web ephemera that got our attention
Here’s a smattering of some of this week’s web ephemera that got our attention.
Friday Quicklinks on Saturday Morning | 12.7.2013
Here’s a smattering of some of this week’s web ephemera that got our clicks + an Advent musical link pack.
Quick Links Friday | 11.22.2013
Here’s a smattering of some of this week’s web ephemera that got our clicks.
Quick Links Friday | 11.15.2013
Featured photo of “Valentine, West Texas” by Michael Muller Want To Be More Empathic? Skip Lunch. Fasting as a feast for empathy. Uniquely Compelling & Poignant Publisher’s Weekly‘s reviews director has issued a ban on the words compelling, unique, and poignant in our reviews. The Price of the Ticket M.J. Moore on […]
Aaron Belz resigns as Editor-in-Chief
Several weeks ago, our Editor-in-Chief Aaron Belz resigned his post at the magazine.The staff writers and editors would like to express our gratitude to him for his contribution over the last 14 months. The magazine is better because of his leadership, interest in objective, grounded review, his work ethic and incisive communication. We are happy to […]
The Curator + Ruminate Short Film Competition
The Curator & Ruminate Magazine are happy to announce the winner of our short film contest!
The Curator + Ruminate Magazine Video Art Competition
The Curator & Ruminate Magazine are happy to announce the winner of our video contest!
#GrowCurator Campaign: Update 1 - A Word From Managing Editor Meaghan Ritchey
We’ve proved that we know how to operate in a streamlined and lean manner, but we now have the desire to grow, and we need your help
Matthew E. White on Craftsmanship, Gospel Music & Andre 3000
A windy conversation between Meaghan Ritchey & Matthew E. White, the man behind “The Big Inner” and SPACEBOMB records in Richmond, VA.
Day Job is a publication for anyone who has ever had a job they’ve loved, a job they’ve hated, a life-long calling or a way to make an easy buck. In short, it’s about work, a celebration of the everyday ways in which we spend our time and energy. As the inimitable Studs Terkel […]
A Story of Generative Participation: NCAI Forum on Art, City, and Society
This April New City Arts Initiative will host their first ever forum this April. At this weekend gathering in Charlottesville, VA three questions will be addressed: 1. Why do the arts matter? 2. What is good art? 3. What is the responsibility of the artist. The New City Arts Initiative is a Charlottesville network of art […]
A New Short Film By Bryan McManus: "Where We Call Home"
Consider supporting “Where We Call Home” on Kickstarter. It’s a story about the ‘right kind of wrong’ and a developing a sense of place. Where We Call Home WHY Why this story now? We believe that home, real home, is increasingly important (and sadly absent) in a world that is disconnected from a sense of […]
The Power Lies in the Performance
There are still plenty of good ol’ singer/songwriters who gather a fitting crowd regardless of venue, wardrobe, advertising, or irony earning points. Bill Callahan and David Bazan are those types of musicians.
If you haven’t read it already, take a moment to read Dorothy Sayer’s essay “Why Work?” She closes the piece with a thought-provoking quote from Jacques Maritain. “What is required is the perfect practical discrimination between the end pursued by the workman and the need to be served by the work, so that the […]
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It goes without saying: postcards from El Paso are sent with irony enclosed in the stamped envelope.
From the Comment Magazine article On Discipline by Carey Wallace… “The art world is full of talk: gossip, politics, and a smattering of actual ideas. But the question of artistic discipline, the central problem of a working artist’s life, is almost taboo, perhaps because the answers are at once so obvious and so daunting. Tellingly, […]
William Brafford on Timid Poets
From William Writes About the World Around Him: “When we’re told stories of the great modern stylistic changes in Western art—representational to abstract, tonal to dissonant, formal to free verse—we always hear about photography’s effect on visual art and we sometimes hear about the effects of recording and amplification on music. Maybe there’s a story […]
How Emulating the Habits of Successful Artists is Not the Key to Making Art
From Drawn.com: “That is, you see a picture of Jackson Pollock smoking a cigarette and looking intense and you think “smoking and being super intense are part of what made Jackson Pollock the artist he was.” And then, worst of all, “if I were to start smoking and being all intense then I would increase my ability to create […]
From the Front Porch Republic article “Preserving Local Culture” by Doug Sangster. “…I began thinking about how important memories are, and it occurred to me that our children are ossuaries of local memory. They are the curators of our culture, remembers, charged with preserving our shared history.” “And while watching him do his jig it […]
Document: Possible Titles for 'Light Years'
“At every magazine or publishing house, there’s always an editor or two with a knack for titles. But even so, rarely does one come in a flash of divine inspiration. There are iterations and themes and the same words written over and over. Here is a glimpse of what James Salter’s process was like with […]
The Limits of Cyber-Revolutions
From the NY Magazine Article “The Limits of Cyber-Revolutions: Public spaces, not virtual town squares are still the places where uprisings are decided.” “The Internet is great at facilitating bonds among compatriots who wouldn’t otherwise feel comfortable communicating openly and assembling a critical mass. But this concentration of like-minded people still exists in a silo, […]
From the NYT article Masters of the Form The Critic as Artist “To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own, that need not necessarily bear any obvious resemblance to the thing it criticizes. The one characteristic of a beautiful form is that one can put […]
Dan Siedell on Religious Commitments
From his recent blog post: “Most critical discourse arises from the critic’s recognition of something familiar in an artist’s work, a reflection of her own interests. Yet art is more than a playground or Rorschach test for critics to indulge their personal commitments. T.S. Eliot once said that the meaning of poem is located somewhere […]
How Do You Know Whether You Should Really Know About Something People Already Know About?
From the First Thoughts blog, Joe Carter on his Zizek Problem: “I think I’ve stumbled upon a problem that is both common among scholars, intellectuals, and intellectually curious generalists (the category I fall into) and yet rarely discussed. The fact that they don’t talk about it could mean, of course, that it’s only a problem […]
From the NYT article Masters of the Form The Liberal Imaginiation “The job of criticism would seem to be, then, to recall liberalism to its first essential imagination of variousness and possibility, which implies the awareness of complexity and difficulty. To the carrying out of the job of criticizing the liberal imagination, literature has a […]
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