Nanase Shirokawa is a writer and arts worker based in Cambridge, MA. Her research interests span memorials, public art, legacies of imperialism in the Pacific, and the intersections between design and print media.

Photo of a wooden stool made from bent plywood The seat of the stool curves up on the edges.

Screen Shot 2025-12-12 at 2.58.05 PM.png

Molded Under Pressure: Plywood Furniture and the Continuity of Modernism

Annie Faye Cheng is a cook and writer based in Queens, New York City. She writes at the intersection of food, race, and power. More about her at [anniefayecheng.com](http://anniefayecheng.com). 

Shinto priest performing the seaweed-gathering ritual.jpeg

Seaweed Through Time: Living Culture and Hidden Ubiquities 

Camila Nader is a researcher dedicated to exploring new narratives within art history. Her work focuses on uncovering overlooked connections between artists, politics, and cultural geographies, seeking to challenge canonical perspectives and expand the ways we understand visual culture.

Screen Shot 2025-10-08 at 9.55.18 PM.png

An Ecology of Satirical Art

J. Cabelle Ahn is an art historian and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her PhD in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2024. A specialist in early modern French and Dutch art, she also writes on the history of the art market and on contemporary artists who challenge, revise, or reframe the Old Masters. In addition to exhibition catalogues and academic volumes, her writing has appeared in _Master Drawings_, _The Art Newspaper_, _Artnet News_, _Observer_, and _Elephant_.

Screen Shot 2025-09-19 at 3.55.50 PM.png

Porcelain to Peonies: Chinoiserie and the Fantasy of Nature

Reina Gattuso is a content writer on the Curationist team, and an independent journalist covering gender and sexuality, arts and culture, and food. Her journalism connects analysis of structural inequality to everyday stories of community, creativity, and care. Her work has appeared at _Atlas Obscura_, _The Washington Post_, _Teen Vogue_, _The Lily_, _POPSUGAR_, and more. Reina has an MA in Arts and Aesthetics (cinema, performance, and visual studies) from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, where her research focused on sexuality in Hindi film. She writes and teaches writing to high school students in New York City.

large_Screen Shot 2025-09-02 at 9.44.36 PM.png

medium_Screen Shot 2025-09-02 at 9.44.36 PM.png

small_Screen Shot 2025-09-02 at 9.44.36 PM.png

thumbnail_Screen Shot 2025-09-02 at 9.44.36 PM.png

Screen Shot 2025-09-02 at 9.44.36 PM.png

A gold bangle with a glass gem in the shape of an evil eye.

download

Protection from the Evil Eye 

Colony Little (she/her/hers) is a Raleigh-based freelance arts writer and the creator of _Culture Shock Art_, a site dedicated to the synergies among art, music, and design. As a Black woman with familial ties to the South, Little presently writes with a focus on amplifying the artistic voices of Black creators who are influenced by and create work in the American South. Freelance writing credits include _ARTnews_, _ARTS.BLACK_, _Burnaway_, _CARLA_, _INDY Week_, _Oxford America_, _Southern Cultures_, _W Magazine_, and _Walter Magazine_. Little was a 2020 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Screen Shot 2025-08-20 at 11.03.50 AM.png

Editorial Features

Search editorial features