About | Lynn Gumpert

Lynn Gumpet has been director of NYU’s Grey Art Gallery since 1997 and she has developed and overseen exhibitions, educational activities and collections. Previously Gumpert had served as a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City from 1980 t0 1988, she was also a senior curator there in 1984. Since Gumpert has worked as an independent curator and consultant organising a variety of shows in museums in Paris and Tokyo. Gumpert has a fast knowledge of art history and has industry experience in the arts.

About | Lucy R. Lippard

Lucy Lippard is an American activist, feminist, art critic and curator noted for her works and books on contemporary art. Lippard earned degrees from Smith College (BA) and New York University (MA) before she began her career as an art critic in 1962. She began contributing to publications such as Art International and Artforum. Lippard set the standard for post minimalism, or antiform art, when she organised an exhibition entitled ‘Eccentric Abstraction’. This exhibition was hugely successful and this was to do with the quality of its sculptures, including works from Eva Hesse and Bruce Nauman. Lippard is a well known art critic and is noted for her contributions through exhibitions.

About | Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas is a Lithuania philosopher, born during the war and taken to a forced labour camp by Nazis in Elmshorn, Germany. After the war ended he went to the University of Mainz where he studied philosophy. He was later moved to New York City where he lived with his brother. Shortly after this move Mekas bought his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954 Mekas and his brother started Film Culture magazine soon to become the most important film publication in the United States. Mekas continued to write poetry and make films, and has published more than 20 books on poetry and prose translated into over a dozen languages.

About | Ted Mooney 

Ted Mooney is an American author, born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Washington D.C. In 1973 Mooney moved over to New York and still lives there today. He has pursued two parallel careers in the literary and art worlds. Mooney’s first novel won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters entitled ‘Easy Travel to Other Planets’ in 1981. He was also a full-time Senior Editor at Art in America magazine which he held from 1977 to 2008.

About | Shelley Rice

Shelley Rice is a critic and historian who has lectured on photography and multi-media art in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia and Africa. She is a co-author of numerous catalogues and books including Landmarks [1984], The Art of the Everyday [1997] and many more. Rice has also been an American Consultant for, and a contributor to, Michel Frizot’s La Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie [Paris, 1995 and in the USA in 1999]. Rice is also a photography and arts critic with many essays published in Art in America, Art Journal, Ms. Magazine, Etudes Photographiques, The New Republic, Bookforum, Aperture and more. Rice is currently working for an online magazine of the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. Here she served as the Invited Blogger in 2012 and where she has been since 2014 as the host of the radiophonic talk show, The Meeting Point.

About | Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Abigail Solomon-Godeau was a freelance critic, curator and photographic critic and now working as an art historian. She has produced many books including; Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions and Practices which was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1991. Other books include; Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation; The Face of Difference: Gender, Race and the Politics of Self-Representation. Solomon’s work and essays have appeared in such journals as Art in America, Artforum, The Art Journal, Screen, Afterimage and more. These essays have been widely translated into various languages. Currently she is working on a book entitled Genre, Gender and the Nude in French Art.