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Contributors
Editor in Chief Randy Kennedy Managing Editor Catherine Davis Editorial Coordinator Madeleine Taurins Art Direction Common Name Contributing Editors Andrea Schwan Michaela Unterdörfer Contributing Designer Anna M. Tzeng Production Nadine Engler Christine Stricker Hauser & Wirth, New York Editorial Offices: 548 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 Tel: +1 212-790-3900 Presidents Iwan and Manuela Wirth Partner and Vice President Marc Payot Printed in Germany Offsetdruckerei Karl Grammlich
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Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s with her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. Her early work—particularly her juxtapositions of text and staged images—raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history. She earned a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center. She was born in Brooklyn, where she lives and works. (Photo: James Wang)
Sante’s books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and The Other Paris. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was born in Verviers, Belgium, and grew up in suburban New Jersey. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. He is at work on a translation of Léo Malet’s Life Is a Toilet, as well as a biography of Lou Reed. (Photo: Laura Levine)
Sherald received an MFA in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in painting from Clark Atlanta University. She was a Spelman College international artist-in-residence in Portobelo, Panama, and was the first woman to win the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition grand prize. The same year, she was selected by First Lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait. An exhibition of new work will continue through December 31, 2018, at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Photo: Justin T. Gellerson)
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On the cover: Lorna Simpson, Linda, 2018, digital chromogenic print and ink on paper, 18 ¼ × 14 ½". © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Original photo: Dwight Carter, DwightCarter.com. On the back cover: Amy Sherald, detail of She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them, 2018. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist, Monique Meloche Gallery, and Hauser & Wirth.
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Bennett, a crime enthusiast, writer and curator, was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the author of Dead Is Better, a twice-yearly zine dedicated to obsession, celebrity death, criminal behavior and to the American television program Intervention. She is a frequent collaborator with the artist Bjarne Melgaard. For 2019, she is the recipient of a Rauschenberg Foundation residency. She lives in Brooklyn and is a director at Gladstone Gallery. (Photo: Ryan McGinley)
Lewis is the Los Angeles poet laureate and a winner of the National Book Award for her 2015 book of poems, The Voyage of the Sable Venus. She earned an MFA from New York University’s Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow in poetry. She also earned a master of theological studies degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard Divinity School. She was born and raised in Compton, California, and her family is from New Orleans. (Photo: Guo�björg Harpa.)
T H O M A S D E M O N C H AU X De Monchaux teaches design at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He was the inaugural recipient of the Winterhouse Award for Design Writing and Criticism. His book Slow House: Fixtures, Features, Masters, Neighbors, and a Year in Pursuit of a Sweeter American Home is forthcoming. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum and n+1. (Photo: James Weber)
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