Dieter Buchhart is an Austrian critic, art historian, and independent curator based in Vienna. He co-curated the Basquiat retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in 2010. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Tricia Laughlin Bloom is Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and has taught modern art history at the New School for Social Research, in New York. Franklin Sirmans is Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and artistic director of the forthcoming Prospect 3 in New Orleans. He was co-curator of the Brooklyn Museum's Basquiat retrospective in 2005. Christopher Stackhouse is a Brooklyn-based writer and visual artist. He is an editor of the literary arts journal Fence and a founding member of This Red Door, an art and performance space in Brooklyn. Stackhouse has contributed to such periodicals as Art in America, Modern Painters, and American Poet—The Journal of The Academy of American Poets.