Pepe Karmel is a Professor in the Department of Art History, New York University. He is the author of Picasso and the Invention of Cubism (2003), Abstract Art: A Global History (2020), and Looking at Picasso (fall 2023). He has written widely on modern and contemporary art for museum catalogues, as well as for The New York Times, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. He has also curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including Robert Morris: Felt Works (Grey Art Gallery, New York, 1989), Jackson Pollock (MoMA, New York, 1998), and Dialogues with Picasso (Museo Picasso Málaga, 2020).

Emily Braun, is Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, and CUNY Curator at The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. A scholar of modern Italian art and of Cubism, Braun has also organized several award-winning exhibitions, among them The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and their Salons (The Jewish Museum, 2005); Cubism: the Leonard A Lauder Collection (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014) and Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2015). Her research has been supported by Fellowships from the Getty Foundation and the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She most recently co-curated Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition (2022) for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Rebecca Schiffman is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and art historian. She is currently working towards her Master’s in Art History at Hunter College and is the Assistant Editor at Art & Object.

Distinguished Professor Emerita of several Literature Ph.D. programs at CUNY, Mary Ann Caws holds a Doctor of Humane Letters, is an Officer in the Palmes Académiques, a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent publications include The Modern Art Cookbook, Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism, Alice Paalen Rahon: Shapeshifter, Mina Loy: Apology of Genius. She was the editor of the Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, chief editor of the HarperCollins World Reader, and the co-editor, with Michel Delville, of Undoing Art, the Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem, and Beginnings: The Early Prose Poem, and the French Prose Poem.

Independent curator and critic, and co-founder of Critical Practices Inc., Saul Ostrow has organized over 80 exhibitions and his writings have appeared in art magazines, journals and catalogues in the USA and Europe. He served as Art Editor, Bomb Magazine, was Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (1996-2004) and Editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (1996-2006) published by Francis & Taylor.

Critic and art historian Phyllis Tuchman teaches and writes about art, particularly sculpture. She has taught at Williams College, Hunter College, and the School of Visual Arts. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.