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How can I write for The Curator? The Curator publishes up to three pieces per week that evaluate or reflect upon contemporary culture and that consider how the world is now and how it might be. We …
"The lonely sentinel that comforts us in the night, causes our oceans to swell and lovers to swoon, is bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh."
John Graeber's new meditation on time, material, and the spirit:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/john-b-graeber/ex-nihilo/
Several months ago, I stood deep in the mountains, straining my eyes to find the faint river of stars that flow across the dark sky. The ability to see the Milky Way is a casualty of our desire to …
We took the month off, but we have a new piece up today: Aaron Danielsen's interview with Lore Ferguson Wilbert and her new book 'Handle With Care.' Read it here:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/aarik-danielsen/handle-with-care-lore-ferguson-wilbert-on-her-new-book/
The body doesn’t only keep the score of trauma, as Bessel van der Kolk’s influential work rightly asserts. Through the skin, bodies soak in sermons about the passions of the flesh. They rehearse sa…
Aaron Belz shares his ten favorite numbers of the decade:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/aaronbelz/ten-favorite-numbers-of-the-decade/
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Rebecca D. Martin shares ten passages she read in the last ten years that resonated with her. Read them here on this troubled day:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/rebeccamartin/ten-moments-when-words-struck-home/
…there are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all the years, a bag of stones that goes with one wherever one goes and however the hour may call for dancing and …
For this morning's 10for2020 entry, Jonathan Anderson writes about ten artworks he experienced over the last ten years that have stayed with him:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/jonathan-a-anderson/ten-contemporary-artworks-from-the-2010s/
This list makes no attempt to identify the ten most influential or historically important works of contemporary art over the past decade. This list is much more personal and haphazard than that. Ra…
Blake Collier tells us about his decade discovering the long influence of R&B:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/blake-collier/25204/
We went from picking cotton To chain gang line chopping, to Be-Bopping, to Hip-Hopping Blues people got the blue chip stock option Invisible man, got the whole world watching — “Hip Hop” by Mos Def…
Beth Kephart shares ten new joys she discovered in the kitchen in the 2010s:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/beth-kephart/top-ten-new-joys-in-an-old-kitchen/
Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, by Samin Nosrat ~ About Dinner, by Molly Stevens ~ Those incredibly tasty, probably calorie-free brown-butter hazelnut shortbread cookies…
Rinoa Ko shares the ten favorite things about Dim Sum she's discovered over the past ten years.
https://www.curatormagazine.com/rinoa-ko/25194/
1) Saying thank you When someone pours you tea, it’s customary to tap the table to say thanks. This comes from a story about an emperor who was traveling incognito with his servant. When they…
"Fugacious, adj. Lasting a short time, evanescent"
Aaron Kleist shares ten words he discovered in the last ten years:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/aaron-kleist/ten-new-words-i-encountered-in-the-2010s/
Vuvuzela, n. A brightly-coloured plastic trumpet, commonly blown by fans at soccer matches, that produces an extremely loud, monotonous sound Tergiversate, v. 1. To make conflicting or evasive stat…
Read John Hawbaker's entry in our 10for2020 package of stories, about ten great concerts he experienced this past decade:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/john-hawbaker/ten-live-performances-i-loved-in-the-2010s/
“Music is a sacrament.” —Bono The above sentiment may be theologically suspect, but the spirit rings true for me. Indefinable, incredible things can happen in the air shared by a live band and a li…
10for2020 - Read Sarah Schwartz's retrospective essay on ten bridesmaid dresses she wore over the last decade:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/sarah-schwartz/25188/
At 17, I’m asked by a friend two years my senior to a be a bridesmaid in her wedding, and despite having only recently gotten my braces off, I take it as a sign that I am a grown woman. My first of…
Megan Sandberg shares some of the cringiest things she heard at family gatherings over the past ten years:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/megans/ten-times-i-regretted-being-related-to-other-people-at-thanksgiving/
“You say you lost weight because of health issues? You look fabulous.” “I haven’t seen you in years. You look so tiny!” “You look good. Thin.” “How’s the bulimia? Is that in your past now?” “So how…
A reminder - This is what we're up to all week over at The Curator:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/chris-davidson/10-for-2020/
10 for 2020: Geoffrey Sheehy shares ten stamps from the past decade that mark his move into true adulthood.
https://www.curatormagazine.com/geoffrey-sheehy/punching-my-adult-card-10-stamps-in-10-years/
10 for 2020: Joseph Lyons shares ten creatives he's thankful to have discovered.
https://www.curatormagazine.com/joseph-lyons/ten-creatives-i-thankful-to-have-discovered/
Bruce Bennett, Hockey photographer at Getty Images ~ Elis Trouw, Musician on YouTube ~ John Carreyrou, Writer for the Wall Street Journal ~ Tessa Violet, Musician on Youtube ~ half•alive, Band, and…
For our 10 for 2020 package, Jolene Nolte
listed ten poems and ten songs that she frequented this past decade:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/jolene-nolte/10-songs-10-poems/
10 songs I can only listen to on repeat, paired (for no particular reason) with 10 poems I memorized because I love them so much: “Jupiter” by Aoife O’Donovan & “The Necklace,” by O…
We're publishing a package of pieces today and tomorrow we're calling "10 for 2020": Ten-item lists of anything that moved our contributors. (Geoffrey Sheehy's terrific piece "Punching My Adult Card" is already up!)
Happy New Year, friends!
https://www.curatormagazine.com/chris-davidson/10-for-2020/
When I was very young, I saw the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 2010 a family had a dolphin pool in their living room! The dolphin swims in for its morn…
New piece up by Geoffrey Sheehy, reflecting on ten changes he's experienced as he's aged into the past decade:
"there are more achievements that come from being a bit old, from being an adult, than this everlasting sameness"
https://www.curatormagazine.com/geoffrey-sheehy/punching-my-adult-card-10-stamps-in-10-years/
As I reflect upon a decade of life, I feel like it should involve large-scale changes or shifts; but, as I think back to 2010, I am mostly struck by how much of my life is precisely the same now as…
I'm the Christmas Unicorn, You're the Christmas Unicorn!
https://www.curatormagazine.com/chris-davidson/25128/
I first heard the 12-minute “Christmas Unicorn” a few days ago, while my family and I were getting ready for a Christmas visit to my father’s home. I was streaming Silver and Gold…
Chris Davidson wrote about how the last song of every Replacements album could be, if you listen just so, an advent song. Some last-minute Christmas reading to go with your shopping:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/chris-davidson/25120/
On a run recently, my phone on shuffle, “Can’t Hardly Wait” came on. It’s a song I’ve written about before, yet as I was running on this crisp December evening, past lawns festooned with inflatable…
Hey hey! Aarik Danielsen reviews Aaron Belz's new book of poems, "Soft Launch": "Belz writes by the philosophy that the longer we live with and in our language, the more we encounter its beautiful strangeness."
Read the rest here, friends:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/aarik-danielsen/strange-and-holy-and-rough/
In a 2018 interview with poet Adrian Matejka, I floated a thought balloon to see whether he would chase it or pop it in an instant. More an aside than a proper question, I wondered aloud whether a …
Winter is good, Emily Dickinson tells us:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/emily-dickinson/1316-winter-is-good-his-hoar-delights/
Winter is good – his Hoar delights Italic flavor yield – To intellects inebriate With summer, or the World – Generic as a Quarry And hearty – as a Rose – Invited with …
Read Rebecca Martin's thoughtful essay on the blind spots of Hallmark Christmas movies:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/rebeccamartin/25102/
The screen brightens as the camera pans down. The sound of strings, pianissimo, brightly, in a major key. Snowy hills, treetops, a perfect, tiny village nestled in a cozy mountain valley. The strin…
Friday poem: A tiny, strange December poem from Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/samuel-taylor-coleridge/25096/
"Advent is the hope of redemption, sung in minor key." So writes John Graeber, in his meditation on Advent, published today:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/john-b-graeber/veni-emmanuel/
Advent is the hope of redemption, sung in minor key. It is the promise of resurrection, and the sorrow of that hope not yet fulfilled. In this the midnight of the liturgical year, these few weeks b…
"How else do children make sense of loss but by rehearsing it?"
Read Liz Charlotte Grant's story about what Blucifer--the giant blue horse--about her family.
https://www.curatormagazine.com/elizabeth-charlotte-grant/the-blue-bronco-of-pena-boulevard/
Whenever my husband and I travel for work, we load the kids into the car and make the drive north and east, past the skyline of Denver and out into the open plains, where the Denver International A…
What if you want to get your face off the Internet but you can't? Joseph Lyons has a story about it:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/joseph-lyons/25059/
I made it a point in Fall 2018 to get away from the most damaging place I knew of, Twitter. The year prior had been a long one, and as I approached my final semester of college, I figured I could u…
I woke up from
a dream, crying
and asking for
water...
Read the rest of the Curator's Friday poem, "Dream" by David Ishaya Osu, here:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/david-ishaya-osu/25001/
I woke up from a dream, crying and asking for water—the last time it was ice cream and new papers father bought for my birthday he said, build aeroplanes and watch your dream fly: the house was qui…
Friday poem!
Read Yoshika Watson's formally striking "Negative Space" here:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/yoshika-wason/negative-space/
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New piece up today by Geoffrey Sheehy
'I have been teaching for 16 years and hope to teach for another 20, but I have spent more than one of these professional development days thinking of other jobs. “Do this,” I am told, “because what you have been doing is destroying the youth of America.”'
Read the rest here:
http://www.curatormagazine.com/geoffrey-sheehy/basic-performance/
Emily Starr encounters the show “The Figurative Mondrian” in Paris and sees in it connections to the poetry of Wendell Berry. Read about it here!
https://www.curatormagazine.com/emily-starr/a-daily-practice-of-painting-flowers/
It is a surprising experience to see the early avenues Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944) explored in his art, something I recently discovered while wandering through “The Figurative Mondrian” at Mu…
"There is a free event in an expensive city that might, if you enter it with the right spirit, restore a smidgen of your faith in this polarized death spiral of a country."
Read about this event--and take part in it, if you can--here:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/chris-davidson/25025/
There is a free event in an expensive city that might, if you enter it with the right spirit, restore a smidgen of your faith in this polarized death spiral of a country. (Clearly, I spend too much…
“I didn’t celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month this year. Maybe I will celebrate it next year. But those conversations were a celebration of our heritage.”
Read Santa-Victoria Pérez’s thoughtful meditation on an occasion she doesn't (yet) celebrate:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/svp730/25017/
On Sunday, September 15th, I sat with my grandpa in our living room. Our dog Max claimed his space between the two of us. And while my main focus was the 300 pages of reading a professor assigned, …
'N.C. Wyeth was a teacher of painting, a student of the world, a friend to the famous, and father of five wildly talented children. He was determined to pass his wisdom on, to stamp his life upon a page.'
- Beth Kephart, in the Curator now:
https://www.curatormagazine.com/beth-kephart/stamping-the-life-upon-the-page/
Messy, dangerous, preoccupied and preoccupying—memoir concentrates and quickens life. It saturates. It sings. I’m just writing about me, the memoirist says, but me is such the wily thing, and witho…
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