On Art At A Time Like This

Barbara Pollack is cofounder and co-director of Art at a Time Like This, a platform for expression for artists and curators to respond to the most pressing issues of the 21st century. Considered a leading authority on Asian contemporary art, she curated the recent exhibition Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity at the Asia Society Museum in New York. Her latest book, Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise is available from Bloomsbury Publishing. She is the recipient of two grants from the Asian Cultural Council, and received a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant in 2008. Pollack teaches at SVA.

Curator based in New York, Anne Verhallen is a cofounder of Art At A Time Like This, for which she has curated numerous exhibitions including Ministry of Truth: 1984/2020, a public art exhibition on twenty billboards across NYC which The New York Times called “one of the most important art moments of 2020.” As the current director of the fine art division at CXA, she was worked on projects for Kehinde Wiley, Robert Wilson, Friedrich Kunath, DRIFT, and Lily Kwong. Born in the Netherlands, Verhallen brings a global perspective to her projects, seeking to cultivate the intersection between technology, design, art, and health. She is a regular contributor to Arte Fuse and has contributed to Artshesays alongside other publications.

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer, editor, and educator who lives in Brooklyn Heights. She was Senior Art Editor at the Rail from 2017 to 2019 and is currently an Editor-at-Large.

Collaborate artist duo Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work with a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, installations, interactive games, video, performance, and design. Thukral & Tagra work on new formats of public engagement and attempt to expand the scope of what art can do, further emphasizing what the practice can do in a virtual context through their archives and publications. They break out of the mediated-disciplinary world, create multi-modal sensory, and storytelling in immersive environments. Recently, they seek to identify the practice as pedagogy through their collaborative Pollinator.io – Interdisciplinary lab, which cultivates an inclusive learning ecosystem that indexes to achieve knowledge sharing through cross-pollination.