Mad Women: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward on Madison Avenue in the 1960s

Born in Scotland in 1945, Michael Findlay directed one of the first galleries in SoHo, New York City, in the 1960’s and ran his own gallery there from 1969-1977. Findlay is currently a Director of Acquavella Galleries, which specializes in Impressionist and Modern European works of art and post-war American painting and sculpture. His book, The Value of Art – Money, Power, Beauty, was published by Prestel in 2012, and has been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. His second book, Seeing Slowly – Looking At Modern Art was published in 2017, and has been translated into Chinese.

Throughout her career, Véronique Chagnon-Burke has taught a range of subjects in art market studies and art history at Queens College, Parsons School of Design, among other institutions. Her museum and research positions have included work at MoMA and the College Art Association, and she has also worked at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. From 2002 to 2021, she was the Director of Christie’s Education in New York, where she taught the history of the art market and art history, more specifically classes on French art and on women artists.

Critic and art historian Phyllis Tuchman teaches and writes about art, particularly sculpture. She has taught at Williams College, Hunter College, and the School of Visual Arts. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.