Brett Littman
Lee Ranaldo
Brett Littman is the director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City. He has contributed news and commentary to a wide range of international art publications and critical essays to many exhibition catalogues. Photo: Mari Juliano
Lee Ranaldo is a founding member of Sonic Youth, and played in the band from their debut in 1981 through 2011, when their activities ceased. He is a musician, composer, visual artist, writer, and producer. His recent albums include The Callas and Lee Ranaldo: Trouble and Desire (Mute, 2018) and Electric Trim (Mute, 2017). Photo: Tom Bronowski
Heather Gendron
Jill Sterrett
Heather Gendron is Director of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University and is coauthor of Artists’ Studio Archives: Managing Personal Collections and Creative Legacies, a free online guide for visual artists. Gendron has served Art Libraries Society of North America in several leadership roles, including president and member of the Executive Board.
Jill Sterrett is Deputy Director for Museum Affairs and Strategic Impact at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, and her work focuses on the role of museums in contemporary society. She was previously Director of Collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sterrett is President of Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA).
Toto Bergamo Rossi
Eileen Costello
Wyatt Allgeier
Toto Bergamo Rossi, a restorer specialized in the conservation of stone, has restored important monuments in Italy and abroad. Since 2010 he has been the director of Venetian Heritage, an international nonprofit organization with offices in New York and Venice, which supports cultural initiatives through restorations, exhibitions, publications, conferences, studies, and research, with the goal of making the world more aware of the immense legacy of the art of Venice. He has led numerous restoration projects, exhibitions, and publications.
Eileen Costello is a historian of modern and contemporary art. A specialist in catalogue raisonné scholarship, she is the editor and project director of Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Drawing (The Menil Collection, 2018), is nearing completion of a catalogue raisonné of Tony Smith’s architecture, and is editing the catalogue raisonné of Arshile Gorky’s complete works.
Wyatt Allgeier is a writer and an editor for Gagosian Quarterly. In this issue he explores the writings of Guy Debord, finding echoes of the theorist’s ideas in artworks from the 1980s and the present.
Peter Marino Peter Marino, FAIA, is the principal of Peter Marino Architect, the 160-person New York firm he founded in 1978. Marino’s work includes award-winning residential, retail, cultural, and hospitality projects worldwide. He is also chairman of Venetian Heritage, a foundation supporting restoration projects in Venice. This spring, in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, Venetian Heritage brought a program of Venetian art and music to cultural institutions in New York City; a concert, an exhibition, and a ball followed in Venice. Photo: Manolo Yllera
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