Robert Ryman: Early and Late

Jeffrey Kastner is a New York–based writer and critic, the senior editor of Cabinet magazine, and a contributing editor at Places. His books include the edited volumes Land and Environmental Art and Nature , and he is coauthor of Artists Who Make Books. His writing on contemporary art and cultural issues has appeared in publications such as Artforum, The Economist, Frieze, The New Republic, and The New York Times, and his monographic essays have been published in books and exhibition catalogues on artists including Doug Aitken, David Altmejd, Michaël Borremans, Nina Katchadourian, Ragnar Kjartansson, Tomas Saraceno, and Sarah Sze.

Lucy R. Lippard is a contemporary writer, activist, and sometime curator best known for her study of conceptual art in Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 and for her writing on feminist art and politically engaged art. She has published twenty-eight books, with two forthcoming, and has organized some fifty exhibitions and cofounded Ad Hoc Women Artists, Heresies: A Journal of Art and Politics, the artists’ book center Printed Matter, and the activist group PAD/D (Political Art Documentation/Distribution). Her many honors include the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award and nine honorary degrees.

Dieter Schwarz was born in 1953 in Zurich, where he studied German and French literature, linguistics, and comparative literature. From 1985 to 1990, he was a curator at Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and from 1990 to 2017, he served as the director of Kunstmuseum Winterthur. Schwarz has curated numerous exhibitions and authored many publications on artists from early modernity to the present, including Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Jean Fautrier, Henri Michaux; the Italian Arte Povera artists Giovanni Anselmo, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, and Marisa Merz; and Richard Artschwager, James Bishop, John Chamberlain, Alfred Jensen, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Weiner, and, in particular, Gerhard Richter and Thomas Schütte. Schwarz is the author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Richter’s drawings. He is member of the Menil Drawing Institute Advisory Committee and serves on the board of Thomas Schütte Foundation.