Pearl Albino
After graduating from Mary Baldwin College with an Art History / Arts Management degree in 1993, I moved to New York to attend grad school at NYU, with the goal of working at a gallery. In 1994 I started at Stux Gallery, as the lone recession-special employee, and stayed on for seven years as the […]
Mimmo Catania
Mimmo Catania is an Italian-born artist, living in Berlin since 1984. He studied painting at Accademia di Belle Arti Urbino (1980-84). He has been working in the last three decades on a synthesis of Informal art (eighties), Environmental strategies (ninenties) and since the beginning of the 2000s introducing the figure to form what he denominates […]
Barbara Bestor
Barbara Bestor, AIA is founding principal of Bestor Architecture. Since 1995, Bestor Architecture has actively redefined Los Angeles architecture with a practice that rigorously engages the city through design, art, and urbanism. Increasingly, the firm applies L.A.’s lessons to national undertakings. Projects such as Beats by Dre headquarters, Blackbirds small-lot housing development, and Intelligentsia café […]
Claire Lieberman
Claire Lieberman is a sculptor and installation artist who combines such materials as marble, Jell-O and video. Her work explores a range of dichotomies, such as the sublime and the quirky, desire and danger, indulgence and guilt. Three current projects include: a series called “Grenades,” small, reflective, black marble sculptures that allude to actual grenades, […]
John Onians
John Onians is Professor Emeritus in the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia, where he directed the World Art Research Programme. He was founding editor of the journal Art History, edited the first Atlas of World Art (2004) which has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Russian and […]
Jurgen Mayer H.
J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten focus on works at the intersection of architecture, communication, and new technology. Recent international projects include Metropol Parasol, the redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Spain; the Court of Justice in Hasselt, Belgium; Pavilion KA300, built in celebration of Karlsruhe’s 300th jubilee, and several public and […]
Phoebe Hoban
Phoebe Hoban has written about culture and the arts for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, ARTnews, and The New York Observer, among others. Her biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat: Basquiat, A Quick Killing in Art, (1998) was a national […]
Fatos Ustek
Fatos Ustek is an independent curator and writer, based in London. She is currently acting as Art Fund curator at fig-2, editing the fig-2 publication in the aftermath of curating 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks at the ICA, London. Formerly, Ustek acted as Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea. She is member […]
Marion Laval-Jeantet
Marion Laval-Jeantet is an artist, transcultural psychiatrist, and Associate Professor in University Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), she leads the program Art Mondiality and Environment (UMR Acte – CNRS), and holds postgraduate degrees in Art (University Paris 1), Biology, Anthropology and Clinical Psychology (University Paris 8 and 10). She has exhibited her artistic work with Benoit Mangin since 1991 […]
Moritz Neumüller
Moritz Neumüller (Linz, Austria, 1972) is a curator and educator based in Barcelona, Spain. He is director of a study program called European Master of Fine Art Photography in Madrid and, since 2010, runs The Curator Ship, a platform for photography and image culture. In 2009, he founded ArteConTacto, a project aimed at exploring art through all senses, in order to provide access […]