Curators

Listed beneath are all the curators that have contributed to Cureditor, both staff and guests. Click on their image to see their recommendations.

Christo Hall is the founder and curator-in-chief of Cureditor. Previously, he was an editor at literary magazine, Litro, the co-founder and editor of The New Wolf, and freelance editor for various journals, magazines and newspapers. He often curates on cities and urbanism.

Robert Barry is a freelance writer and composer. He is also the visual arts editor at The Quietus, a publication that’s grown well beyond its original music remit into a leading cross-cultural review site.

Jon Baskin is the Founding Editor of The Point, a magazine based in Chicago that explores and questions the moral heart of modern life. Read our interview with Jon.

Marta Bausells is a writer, editor and curator based in London. She worked in the Culture, Arts and Cities desks at the Guardian newspaper, and is now a freelance writer and European Editor-at-Large for Literary Hub.

Matthew Bennett was the Music Editor at Clash Magazine for a decade and ran numerous monthly sections including new bands, underground electronic and club cultures, longform features, and album reviews. In addition to freelancing for titles such as Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, RBMA and The Big Issue, Matthew now works as Head of Music at Secret Cinema. He was Cureditor’s staff music curator.

The Cinematologists are Neil Fox, course co-ordinator in Film at Falmouth University and Dario Llinares, principal lecturer in Contemporary Screen Media at University of Brighton. They also make podcasts “interrogating and celebrating film culture”.

Neil Denny is the interview editor of Little Atoms, a podcast on Resonance FM, online magazine and more recently a print magazine. For over 10 years Neil has interviewed hundreds of writers, including Jonathan Meades, Adam Curtis, Hanya Yanagihara and Noam Chomsky. Read our interview with Neil.

Philomena Epps is the founder and editor of Orlando. She also writes freelance arts features and exhibition reviews, and is currently working on a research project at Tate about their history of performance art. Read our interview with Philomena.

Lydia Garnett and Lucy Nurnberg are editors of Accent, a biannual print magazine dedicated to celebrating lives lived outside the ordinary from around the world. It is a collection of true stories about inspirational, extraordinary people who dare to live life on their own terms. Read our interview with Lydia + Lucy.

Owen Hatherley is a writer and journalist who writes on architecture and politics. You’ll find his work regularly in The Guardian, Architectural Review, Dezeen and many other publications. If we recommended books we’d recommend his latest, Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings.

Pamela Hutchinson is a freelance journalist and film critic based in London. She edits the silent cinema website Silent London, contributes regularly to Sight & Sound, and is writing a book on Pandora’s Box (1929).

Christine Jakobson is co-founder and editor of four by three, “an independent online magazine committed to the discovery of perspectives previously overlooked in film, philosophy, art and music”. Read our interview with Christine.

Daniel Levin Becker is the literary editor of San Francisco-based magazine, The Believer, and member of the Oulipo, a group of writers using mathematical and literary constraints to generate literature. Read our interview with Daniel.

Colin Marshall is a writer, video essayist and podcaster who examines the portrayal of cities in film. His podcasts can be found at Notebook on Cities and Culture and his videos at The City in Cinema. Read our interview with Colin.

Sophie Mayer is a poet and film activist. She is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love, a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, The F-Word and Literal, co-host of the film podcast Hell is for Hyphenates, and she works with queer feminist curators Club des Femmes and industry campaigners Raising Films.

Paul McNamee is the Editor of The Big Issue, a magazine based in the UK that is sold by homeless and long-term unemployed people. Read our interview with Paul.

Matt writes the weekly(ish) Imperica newsletter, the longest (if not best) digest of the week’s web covering digital art, culture and general weirdness. In his spare time, Matt does consulting and journalism and existential dread.

Ben Nicholson is the editor of award-winning film blog CineVue, whilst penning further ramblings for publications such as BFI, Dazed, Vérité and The Skinny. A sucker for happy endings, his favourite films include The Third Man, In the Mood For Love and The Red Shoes. Ben was Cureditor’s staff film curator.

Johannes Reponen is a fashion writer, scholar and consultant. As well as editing and publishing ADDRESS – journal for fashion criticism, he writes about fashion for a variety of international fashion publications such as SSAW. He is the course leader for a brand new integrated 4-year MA Fashion Media Practice and Criticism at the London College of Fashion. Johannes was Cureditor’s staff fashion curator.

Adam Scovell is a writer, filmmaker and founder of Celluloid Wicker Man, a site that compiles his writing and films on Folk Horror, Landscape in Film and Literature and British Art House, amongst many other interests. Read our interview with Adam.

Liv Siddall is a freelance writer podcaster and editor, and used to be an editor at the design and creativity magazine, It’s Nice That. She has also contributed to Dazed, Riposte magazine and AnOther magazine amongst others. Read our interview with Liv.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor of Jacobin Magazine, a socialist magazine both online and in print. Concerning the political Left, Jacobin provides political commentary and cultural perspective. Read our interview with Bhaskar.

Robert Urquhart is an editor-at-large for Elephant Magazine, strategic consultant and a lecturer at UAL London College of Communication. As a freelance journalist and futurist for many of the world’s leading design press, Robert also works as a copywriter and, latterly, as a strategic consultant working with product designers and architects. Robert won a D&AD pencil for editorial in 2012.

Ian Warner is the founder of Slab Magazine, “the heuristic journal for gonzo blurbanism”. Slab explores architecture and urbanism from a uniquely subjective perspective, assessing buildings and designs in ways as much informative as humorous. Read our interview with Ian.