Richard Neer teaches art history and cinema studies at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities.  His writings have twice been selected as annual “Best Books” in Artforum (The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture in 2010, and Painting As A Way of Life in 2025). In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  

Alexi Worth is a Guggenheim Award-winning New York painter whose work has been singled out by Roberta Smith of the New York Times as representing the continued vitality of painting today, and praised by Jerry Salz for depictions that “resist naming and stay titillating to the eye.”  Worth’s art differs from much recent figuration in its economy and simplicity, suggesting an effort to return the contemplative power of abstraction to figurative art. Also known as a critic, Worth has written about a wide range of artists for publications ranging from the Rail to Artforum and the New Yorker. 

Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Alexander Nagel’s interest in art and religious reform produced Michelangelo and the Reform of Art (2000, winner of the Renaissance Society of America’s Gordan book prize), and The Controversy of Renaissance Art (2011, winner of the College Art Association’s Morey book prize). His interest in the multiple temporalities of art led to the publication of Anachronic Renaissance (co-authored with Christopher Wood, 2010) and Medieval Modern: Art out of Time (2012). His current work addresses questions of orientation and configurations of place in Renaissance art and culture. In 2016, he received an NEH Fellowship for a collaborative project (with Elizabeth Horodowich, NMSU) entitled Amerasia: A Renaissance Discovery.