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Adam Marcus

is a New York-based architect, working at the studio Marble Fairbanks. He holds a BA from Brown University and an M.Arch. from Columbia University, where he currently teaches.

Althea Viafora-Kress

is an art consultant and commentator who has hosted the “Collectors' Forum” show for WPS1 Art Radio, conducted interviews for Vernissage Art TV, and lectured on art collecting at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute. She was the owner of the Althea Viafora Gallery and holds a BA from Columbia University.

Anna Mecugni

is a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. She has worked in curatorial and education roles at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee (ASAC), and the 52nd Venice Biennale. She has lectured at various institutions, including Baruch College, Cambridge University, and Fordham University.

Arden Decker-Parks

is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, writing on conceptual art in Mexico. She was a curatorial assistant at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, an editorial assistant for the 2008 exhibition “Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000” at El Museo del Barrio, and has taught at Hunter College.

Carolyn Yerkes

is a doctoral candidate in the department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University where she is writing her dissertation on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural drawings.

Casey Rehm

is a New York-based designer who has worked at Bureau V and at Graft. He holds a B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University and an MSAAD from Columbia University, where he currently assists graduate studios.

David Drogin

is Assistant Chair of the History of Art Department at the State University of New York, F.I.T. and is also a regular lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with a specialization in Italian Renaissance art. In addition to work in his field, he has published on modern and contemporary art in Art on Paper, Artforum, and various online journals.

David Lewis

is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Artforum.com and Frieze. He teaches at Parsons Paris.

David Shapiro

is the Editor-in-Chief of Museo Magazine and Founding Publisher of Museo Publications, LLC.

David Velasco

is the Editor of Artforum.com. He has interviewed artist Jack Pierson for 032c, choreographer Sam Kim for the New York Foundation for the Arts, and photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya for his artist book Beloved Object and Amorous Subject. He has contributed essays to catalogues for Paul P. and Daniele Buetti.

Filip Tejchman

is the principal of Untitled Office, Project Editor for Praxis, and the author of an essay for a Höweler+Yoon monograph (Princeton Architectural Press). He has taught Design and Drawing at Pratt Institute.

Geoffrey Batchen

is a professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and has taught at the University of New Mexico and the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the books Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography; Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History; and Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney.

Jane Panetta

worked for several years as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. Most recently at MoMA, she worked on the 2007 Richard Serra retrospective and co-organized the James Ensor exhibition (2009). Panetta has lectured on Serra’s work and is currently a graduate student at CUNY where she is focusing her research on contemporary sculpture.

Jasper Pope

is the Creative Director of Museo Magazine and Museo Publications, LLC.

Jonathan T.D. Neil

is Executive Editor at The Drawing Center in New York, Editor-at-Large for ArtReview magazine, and co-founder of the private curatorial firm, Boyd Level LLC.

Katie Sonnenborn

is Director of External Affairs at Dia Art Foundation. She is a frequent contributor to Frieze and has recently written texts for the catalogue of PERFORMA07 and Phaidon’s Vitamin 3-d: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, among others publications. She holds degrees in Art History from the Courtauld Institute, London (MA) and Dartmouth College (BA).

Kristen Lorello

is an Associate Director at the gallery Eleven Rivington. She was a 2006-07 Fulbright Fellow to Italy, where she researched contemporary art in Rome. She has written for Artnet and curated for the Rome-based archive Open Video Projects.

Lauren Ross

is the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator and Director of Arts Programs at Friends of the High Line. There, she commissions temporary, site-specific artwork for the High Line, Manhattan's newest public park. She has worked at the Brooklyn Museum, White Columns, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Lindsay Harris

is a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She has worked as a research assistant and lecturer for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, and the 52nd Venice Biennale. She lectures at the Northeastern University School of Architecture in Rome.

Marco Antonini

is an independent curator and writer with recent curatorial projects produced by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the Ise Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Japan Society, New York. He has a degree in Art Administration from the University of Bologna (Italy) and an MA in Art History/Museum Studies from The City College of New York.

Michael Wilson

is an architect working at S3, a Brooklyn-based firm. He holds a BA in French Studies from Brown University and an M.Arch. from Columbia University, where he was a recipient of the Ali Jawad Malik award for history.

Nell McClister

is a contributing editor at BOMB magazine. She is a frequent contributor to Artforum, where she previously worked as Reviews Editor. She holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute.

Paulina Pobocha

is a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. She has been Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and has taught at New York University and Hunter College.

Peter Zuspan

is the Architecture Editor of Museo Magazine and a founding principal of the architecture studio Bureau V. He has worked as the lead designer at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and his collaborative work has been exhibited and performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institute, the Zentrum für Kunst und Mediatechnologie, the National Design Museum, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He teaches architecture at Columbia University.

Richard Turnbull

is the Chair of the History of Art department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He also teaches at The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Columbia University and has published on diverse subjects including music for The Village Voice and Praxis. Turnbull holds a Ph.D. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where he specialized in Islamic art.

Samantha Cesarini

is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is pursuing a master’s degree in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture. Her areas of interest include cinematic portrayals of post-war European architecture, the work of Superstudio, and literary theory. She holds a degree in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University.

Sarah Rosenbaum-Kranson

is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, where she is completing a dissertation on contemporary public art in New York City. She has participated in symposia at UC Berkeley, UCLA and the Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association. She is a Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Shana Lindsay

is a professor in the History of Art department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her current research investigates the theme of sacrifice in contemporary art, and her dissertation for a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York treated Marcel Broodthaers.

Thom Donovan

edits the blog Wild Horses of Fire, co-edits ON Contemporary Practice, curates the events series “PEACE,”and participates in the Nonsite Collective. His poems and essays have appeared in such publications as 2nd Avenue Poetry, Aufgabe, Fanzine, Kenning, and P-Queue. He is on the faculty of Bard College.

Timothy Hull

is an artist who has had solo exhibitions at Brown Project Space (Milan), Taylor de Cordoba (Los Angeles), Freight+Volume (New York), and Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery (Brooklyn). He recently curated the show “Cover Version” at Taylor de Cordoba. Hull holds a BA from New York University and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design.

Veronica Roberts

is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art and the curator of "Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense" (MoMA, April 21-August 30, 2010.) She holds a BA in Art History at Williams College and an MA in Art History from University of California, Santa Barbara and teaches and lectures frequently on modern and contemporary sculpture.

William Smith

is a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. He is a contributing editor of Triple Canopy, and his writing has also been published in Pitch and Bidoun. Smith has taught at Pratt Institute and lectures at The Museum of Modern Art.