Michael Brenson is an art critic and art historian. He is the artistic director of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation. He was an art critic for The New York Times from 1982-1991. He is a Getty Scholar, Guggenheim Fellow and Clark Fellow, and the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) is one of the most prominent Italian artists in the world. Over a thirty-year career, his works have highlighted the paradoxes of society and reflect on political and cultural scenarios with great depth and insight. By using iconic images and a caustic visual language, his works spark heated public debate fostering a sense of collective participation. Guillaume Kientz is an art historian and curator, and currently serves as CEO and director of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library. At the Louvre, where he served as a curator in the Department of Paintings for eight years, Kientz developed the revered exhibition Le Mexique au Louvre (2013), bringing Mexican masterpieces to the spotlight for the first time in the institution's history. Vicente Todolí is a Spanish museum director and curator. He is artistic director of Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. From 2003 until 2010, he was the director of Tate Modern, where he curated the exhibition Sigmar Polke: History of Everything (2003), with the close involvement of Sigmar Polke.