contributors
HENRY ADAMs
Henry Adams is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received his MA and PhD from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, where he received the Frances Blanshard Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in art history. Adams is a professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of 14 art-related books and catalogues, as well as hundreds of articles on art and artists. Adams has also served as curator at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. In 2017, he received the Baker Nord Award for the Humanities, which is bestowed on the most outstanding scholar in the humanities at Case Western Reserve University.
GLENN ADAMSON
Glenn Adamson is an American curator, author, and historian whose research and work focuses on the intersections of design, craft, and contemporary art. Adamson earned his BA in art history from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and his PhD in art history from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Adamson is currently editor-at-large of The Magazine Antiques, editor of the Journal of Modern Craft, and a freelance writer and curator. He is also the co-host of Design in Dialogue, a weekly online interview series co-presented with Friedman Benda gallery. Adamson has previously been director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
LAURENE BUCKLEY
Laurene Buckley earned her PhD in art history at the Graduate Center of City University and her MA in Museum Studies at City College, both in New York City. She has been Executive Director or curator at numerous institutions, including the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; the Queens Museum, New York City; the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Lewiston, New York; and, most recently, the new Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is also a consultant for the American Alliance of Museums.
SAMANTHA DE TILLIO
Samantha De Tillio is a curator, writer, scholar, and arts practitioner who specializes in modern and contemporary American craft. Her research interests include the intersection of glass and performance, fiber art, performance craft, women's studies, and radical alternative histories. De Tillio has a MA in the History of Decorative Arts from the Smithsonian Associates with George Mason University in Washington, DC. She is currently curator of collections at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, where she oversees, researches, and exhibits the permanent collection, and manages the acquisitions program. She has also held curatorial positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
Glassworks: The Art of Frederick Birkhill | Wendell Castle Remastered
PHILIP ELIASOPH
Philip Eliasoph, PhD, is an American art historian, critic, and curator. At Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, he is an art historian in the Visual and Performing Arts department and is the author of numerous scholarly books, catalogues, articles, and reviews. In 2016, Eliasoph was invited to design and curate a weekly Arts & Visual Culture blog for The New York Times international education platform. He is also an elected member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, UNESCO’s art-critic organization based in Paris, France. Eliasoph won the Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities for his study, Paul Cadmus: Life and Work, which was based, in part, on extensive interviews he conducted with Cadmus at the artist’s Brooklyn Heights, New York, and Weston, Connecticut, studios.
Adolf Dehn: Midcentury Manhattan | Richard Segalman Black & White: Muses, Magic & Monotypes
RONALD T. LABACO
Ronald T. Labaco is a seasoned design curator, published writer, and respected lecturer. Labaco holds a BA in studio art from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in the History of the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. He has served as the curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, and previously worked as an independent curator and as assistant curator of decorative arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. In 2010, Labaco joined the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City as the Marcia Docter Curator.
Kat Lee
Kat Lee, MA, RDT-BCT, LCAT is a licensed creative arts therapist. In her private practice as a drama therapist, she practices embodied, trauma-centered therapy with individuals recovering from traumatic life experiences. Kat also serves as the Content Associate at Greenleaf Integrative, where she develops training for organizations seeking to become more trauma responsive, including the National Democratic Institute in Ukraine and Côte d’Ivoire. She has served as faculty at New York University and the Kint Institute, focusing on cultural awareness, intersectionality, and decolonization in creative arts therapy. Kat earned her Master of Arts in Drama Therapy from New York University and her Bachelor of Arts in English from Oberlin College.
JESSICA NICOLL
Jessica Nicoll is director and Louise Ines Doyle chief curator of the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. She also serves as the director of Smith’s Museum Concentration, advising and instructing students in museum history, theory, and practice. Prior to returning to Smith in 2005, Nicoll served for 13 years as the William and Helen Thon curator and then chief curator of American art at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. She has written and lectured on a wide variety of topics ranging from early American portraits and landscape painting to the work of artists including Will Barnet, Charles Codman, Winslow Homer, Robert Henri, and Marguerite and William Zorach. She holds a BA in art history and American studies from Smith College, and a MA in American Material Culture from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.
Will Barnet (Fall 2024)
ANNE PASTERNAK
Anne Pasternak is a curator and museum director. She received her undergraduate degree in art history and business management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the current Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. Pasternak's directorship at the Brooklyn Museum marks the first time a woman has had a directing role in an encyclopedic New York City museum. As a former director of Creative Time, a public art organization, this new position represents a shift in her career from a broader public sphere into the architecture of a museum.
CARTER RATCLIFF
Carter Ratcliff is an American art critic, writer, and poet. His writings on art have been published by the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, both in New York City; the Royal Academy, London, England; the Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy; and many other celebrated institutions. In 1976 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in fine arts research. Ratcliff has contributed to numerous magazines including The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, and Parkett. He has taught at New York University, Hunter College, and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, all in New York City.
JASON ROSENFELD
Jason Rosenfeld is an art historian, curator, and educator. Rosenfeld currently serves as the Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York City. He is also a senior writer and editor-at-large for The Brooklyn Rail. Rosenfeld received his BA in history and economics from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and his PhD in art history from New York University Institute of Fine Art, New York City. Rosenfeld has served as an independent curator at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the George Segal Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey; and the Marlborough Gallery, London, England.
ALLISON RUDNICK
Allison Rudnick is associate curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She has published and presented widely on modern and contemporary printmaking practices. Rudnick received her masters of philosophy in art history from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has previously held positions at the print shop Harlan & Weaver and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City.
JOHN T. SPIKE
John T. Spike is an eminent American art critic, art historian, museum curator, and author known for his focus on European artists before 1800, as well as a wide range of modern artists. He is the author of more than 20 culturally significant books that have been translated and distributed worldwide. Spike has balanced his career between residencies in the United States and Florence, Italy. He earned his BA at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and his MA and PhD from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2012, Spike was named the assistant director and chief curator of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
GAIL STAVITSKY
Gail Stavitsky is chief curator at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey, specializing in American Modernism. Stavitsky received her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has served as the assistant curator of fine arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as an instructor at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Stavitsky is often invited to speak at schools and museums including New York University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in New York City. In addition to her many museum roles, Stavitsky has also co-authored a number of publications on the visual arts.
Will Barnet (Fall 2024)
LOWERY STOKES SIMS
Lowery Stokes Sims is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art and is known for her expertise in the work of African, African American, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American artists. Sims received her PhD in art history from the Graduate School of the City University of New York in New York City. She served on the education and curatorial staff at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was executive director, then president, of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and curator emerita at the Museum of Arts and Design, all in New York City. She has frequently served as a guest curator, lectured internationally, and published extensively, and has received numerous public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution.
TERRIE SULTAN
Terrie Sultan is an American independent curator, cultural consultant, and principal museum strategist for Art Museum Strategies LLC at Hudson Ferris, a boutique consulting firm based in New York City. Art Museum Strategies is a partnership comprised of two experienced former art museum directors, Sultan and Robin Nicholson; to peers in the field, they offer consulting services in strategic planning, crisis management, operational structures and organizational assessment, board governance, and curatorial expertise, as well as fundraising in partnership with Hudson Ferris. Sultan was appointed director of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, in 2008. She previously served in senior positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City as its director of Public Affairs and Public Programs.
Bruce weber
Bruce Weber was senior curator at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York City. His specialty is in American painting, sculpture, and drawings from the late-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Weber was also a reporter for the New York Times and began his career in publishing as a fiction editor at Esquire. He has written for numerous publications and is the author of the New York Times bestseller: AS THEY SEE 'EM.
Will Barnet (Fall 2024)
KAREN WILKIN
Karen Wilkin is an independent curator, art critic, and art historian. She attended the High School of Music and Art, Barnard College, and Columbia University, all in New York City. A specialist in twentieth-century modernism, Wilkin has written monographs on David Smith, Helen Frankenthaler, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Stuart Davis, Giorgio Morandi, Wayne Thiebaud, and George Braque, and organized exhibitions of their work internationally. She is the co-author, with Clifford Ross, of The World of Edward Gorey. She contributes regularly to publications such as: The New Criterion, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review.
Figuration Never Died: New York Painterly Painting, 1950–1970
LINDA WOLK-SIMON
Linda Wolk-Simon, respected art historian, received her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Wolk-Simon has served in many roles at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where, from 1986 to 2011 she was curator for the Department of Drawings and Prints. She was also the Frank and Clara Meditz Director and Chief Curator at Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, Connecticut, and was the Charles W. Engelhard Curator and the head of the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. Wolk-Simon specializes in European art of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, with a concentration on the Italian Renaissance. She is currently a visiting professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in New York City.
JOHN YAU
Poet, art critic, and curator John Yau has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism. In New York City, he attended Bard College and earned an MFA from Brooklyn College. His first book of poetry, Crossing Canal Street, was published in 1976. Since then, he has won acclaim for his poetry’s attentiveness to visual culture and linguistic surface. In 1999, Yau started Black Square Editions, a small press devoted to poetry, fiction, translation, and criticism. He was the arts editor for the Brooklyn Rail before he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic. He is currently a professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
