INTERVIEW : LINDA YABLONSKY has worked as an art critic and journalist since 1990, contributing to a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, W, Bloomberg News and Artforum. From 2005 to 2017 she was the leading voice of Artforum.com's 'Scene & Heard' diary, and wrote numerous essays for exhibition catalogues for artists such as Anish Kapoor, Mark Morrisroe, Richard Phillips, Marilyn Minter, Francesco Vezzoli, Keith Sonnier and Pipiloti Rist among others.
Throughout the 1990s, she directed NightLight Readings, a writers-in-performance series, and in 2002 was a founding producer of the streaming art radio channel, WPS1.org for MoMA/P.S.1. Based in New York, Yablonsky is also the author of The Story of Junk. A Novel (1997) as well as a biography on Jeff Koons. SURVEY : MARTIN HERBERT is a writer and critic living in Berlin. He is associate editor of Art Review and a regular contributor to Artforum, Frieze, and Art Monthly, and has lectured in art schools internationally.
Between 2013-15 he served on the acquisitions committee for Arts Council England, and was a Juror for the Turner Prize in 2017. He is the author of Mark Wallinger (2011), The Uncertainty Principle (2014), and Tell Them I Said No (2016). FOCUS : CONNIE BUTLER is Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum at the University of California in Los Angeles. From 2006-13 she served as the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Prior to that, she was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, from 1996 to 2005. STUDIO VISIT : JASON SCHMIDT is a photographer and director who specializes in portraits of artists and cultural figures, as well as architecture and interiors. His work has been collected in two books, Artists (2007) and Artists II (2015). Schmidt shoots regularly for magazines including Architectural Digest, The New York Times T Magazine, Vogue, W, and Wallpaper.