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Abbas was born in Iran and lives in Paris. He has been a member of Magnum since 1981.
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Abbas was born in Iran and lives in Paris. He has been a member of Magnum since 1981.
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David Abram is a writer and photographer. He has traveled the length and breadth of the British Isles, capturing views and researching his findings. He lives in the southwest of England, near some of the oldest sites of human habitation in the British Isles.
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Peter Adam is a British filmmaker and author. He was born in Germany.
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Rhiannon Adam is an established Polaroid photographer and is a key figure in the instant photography community. She is an expert in the field, teaching workshops and short courses on Polaroid creative techniques. In 2019, she was named one of the winners of the Photographers’ Gallery’s inaugural New Talent Award, and her work was exhibited at the gallery.
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Glenn Adamson is the Nanette L Laitman Director, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and is the author of The Craft Reader, Thinking Through Craft, and The Invention of Craft.
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Elizabeth Adan teaches art history and is affiliated faculty in the department of women’s and gender studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she is professor in the College of Liberal Arts.
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Dawn Ades is a professor emerita of the history and theory of art at the University of Essex. She has written extensively on Dada, Surrealism, photography, and women artists, among other topics. Her many books also include Dalí and, with Neil Cox and David Hopkins, Marcel Duchamp, both in the World of Art series.
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David Adjaye has offices in London, New York, and Berlin, and his public buildings have brought him international critical acclaim. His previous books are David Adjaye: Houses and David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings.
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King ADZ, aka Adam N. Stone, is an advertising/branding professional, filmmaker, and author. His other books include Blek le Rat with Sybille Prou, The Stuff You Can’t Bottle, and Unbrandable.
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Eileen Agar (1899-1991)was a painter, collagist, photographer, and object-maker, and was associated with the international surrealist movement. Her work has been extensively exhibited to increasing acclaim, including retrospectives at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
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Allan Ahlberg is a best-selling children’s book writer. He has published over 100 books for children, including such award winners as Each Peach Pear Plum, Burglar Bill, Peepo, and The Jolly Postman. He lives in Lewes, England.
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Staffan Ahrenberg is the publisher of Cahiers d’Art.
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Marco Aimone is a scholar of late antique and medieval archaeology and a former Dumbarton Oaks fellow. He has published extensively on the precious metalwork and epigraphy of the Migration Period. Since 2015, he has been a senior advisory curator for the Wyvern Collection.
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Ladan Akbarnia
Curator, Islamic Collections and Arts of the Book
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Konstantin Akinsha is an art historian and curator. He has been a contributing editor for ARTnews magazine, New York. Among his numerous journalistic awards is the George Polk Award for cultural reporting (1991). From 1998 to 2000 he served as a deputy director of the Art section in the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US. Among exhibitions curated by him are “Silver Age: Russian Art in Vienna around 1900” (Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 2014), “Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917” (Neue Galerie, New York, 2015), and “Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today” (Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2018). He is a founding director of the Avant-Garde Art Research Project (UK) and the author of a number of books, including Beautiful Loot.
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Takayo Akiyama is a Japanese illustrator based in London and the illustrator of previous books in the series, So You Want to Be a Roman Soldier?, So You Want to Be a Viking?, and So You Want to Be a Ninja?
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Marwa al-Sabouni has a PhD in Islamic architecture and runs a private architectural studio in Homs, Syria. She has written for Architectural Review and Wall Street International. She is co-owner of the first and only online media site dedicated to architectural news in Arabic, Arch News.
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Rumaan Alam is the author of the National Book Award Finalist Leave the World Behind and two other novels. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and the New Republic.
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Nicky Albrechtsen is the proprietor of the Vintage Resource Studio in Brick Lane, London, which provides costumes and props to the theater and media. She is the author of The Printed Square; Scarves, with Fola Solanke; and Fashion Spectacles, Spectacular Fashion, with Simon Murray.
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Katherine Alcauskas is chief curator at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alcauskas received an MA in art history from Williams College and has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
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Miranda Aldhouse-Green is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. She has published widely on the Celts, including for Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, Exploring the World of the Druids, and The Celtic Myths.
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Cyril Aldred was among the first to graduate in the History of Art at the newly founded Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 1936, and studied Egyptology as an art historian. From 1961 to 1974 he was Keeper of the Department of Art and Archaeology at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, and he also served as Associate Curator fot e Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He died in 1991. His many publications include Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom (1965), Akhenaten and Nefertiti (1973), Jewels of the Pharaohs (2nd edn, 1978), Tutankhamen, Craftsmanship in Gold in the Reign of the King (1979), The Egyptians (rev. edn, 1987), and Akhenaten: King of Egypt (1988).