Ode to Robert Moskowitz

Barbara MacAdam is an editor, writer, and curator, who has long worked for ARTnews, where she is currently Editor at Large and was, until recently, co-executive editor, working for the print edition and the website. Along the way, she has done writing and editing stints at Art and Auction, New York Magazine, Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, the Paris Review, the Virginia Quarterly. She has written numerous catalogue essays and a book New York’s New and Avant-Garde Art Galleries, under the name Barbara Stone (City & Company, 1999), including portraits of 50 galleries at the turn of the century.

John Newman is an artist living and working in New York City. He has had over 50 one-person shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and internationally, and his sculpture, drawings and prints are represented in numerous public collections. Newman has been the recipient of the many awards and residencies including the Rome Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation, and others. He is the former Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at the Yale School of Art and has taught and lectured in many universities and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has also been commissioned to do several large-scale outdoor commissions for the City of Richmond, Virginia, Storm King Art Center, and others.

Dieter Schwarz was born in Zurich in 1953. From 1990 to 2017 he was director of Kunstmuseum Winterthur. He is now active as independent curator and author, based in Zurich. Schwarz has been the curator and author of numerous exhibitions and publications on art from early modernity to the present day. He is the author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Gerhard Richter’s drawings. Also forthcoming is his essay Robert Ryman: 1961–1964 for a publication to be issued by Zwirner Books. He is curating, in collaboration with Nicholas Serota, the retrospective exhibition Gerhard Richter: 60 Years to be held at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris in 2025.

Roger White earned a BA from Yale University, New Haven, CT and an MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY. White has had solo and two-person exhibitions at LABOR, Mexico City, MX; Grice Bench Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY. The artist, in collaboration with Dushko Petrovich, was included in the 2013 deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA. He is the co-founder of the contemporary art journal and publishing imprint Paper Monument and is also the author of The Contemporaries, published by Bloomsbury in 2015. White lives and works in Vermont.

Will Heinrich was born in New York and spent his early childhood in Japan. He reviews gallery shows, museum exhibitions, and art fairs for the New York Times, as well as writing artist obituaries, and has also for the New Yorker, the New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Jewish Currents and the Nation. His novel The King’s Evil, published by Scribner in 2003, won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004. His most recent novel, The Pearls, was published in 2019 by Elective Affinity.