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Nancy Princenthal is a noted American art critic whose writings have appeared in journals such as Art in America, Parkett and Artforum. She has written extensively on contemporary artists, including Robert Mangold (Phaidon, 2000), Ann Hamilton and Roni Horn. Carlos Basualdo is a poet and curator based in New York who regularly contributes to Artforum and Art Nexus, among other publications. Formerly the Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Basualdo was also Co-Curator of Documenta 11 (2002) and the 50th Venice Biennial (2003). Andreas Huyssen is Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. His publications include After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986) and Twilight Memories: Marking Times in a Culture of Amnesia (1995). He is also editor of the journal New German Critique.