Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art and theory, with publications that include Critical Terms for Art History (co-edited, 1996; second edition, 2003), Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné (co-authored, 2004), Doubt (2008), Between Sense and de Kooning (2011), and Ellsworth Kelly: New York Drawings 1954-1962 (2014).
Robert Storr is an American artist, critic, and curator. He was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the Yale School of Art in 2006 and served as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean from 2014 to 2016. The exhibition he organized at David Zwirner in 2013 to celebrate the centenary of Ad Reinhardt was voted "Best Show in a Commercial Space in New York" by the US Art Critics Association.
