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Walter Grasskamp is a critic and art historian and is Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He has written on Haacke for his exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, London (1984) the Fundacio Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (Obra Social, 1995) and the German Pavilion at the 45th Venice Biennale (1993).

Molly Nesbit is Professor in the Department of Art at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and is author of Atget's Seven Albums (1992) and Their Common Sense (2000). She has received numerous awards, notably from the Guggenheim Foundation (1991) and the J. Paul Getty Trust (1988 and 1992). In 2003 she co-curated 'Utopia Station' at the 50th Venice Biennale.

Jon Bird is Professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University, London, and an independent curator and writer on contemporary art and visual culture. Among the exhibitions he has curated are the Leon Golub retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and tour (2000) and a major exhibition on Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith for the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (2003).