Contributors

Dijanna Mulhearn

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Dijanna Mulhearn is a Sydney-based author whose obsession with the transformational properties of clothing began at the age of eleven. Her career in fashion has careened from retail and marketing to public relations and being an author. She has a master's degree in communication design and voraciously consumes all manner of literature including studies on semiotics and the subliminal effect of clothing.

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Florence Müller

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Florence Müller is a professor at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), where she teaches the history of fashion.

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Herta Müller

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Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Paul Murdin

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Paul Murdin is a professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Since 1963, he has been a research scientist studying supernovae, black holes, and neutron stars; an observatory administrator; and a science policy maker for the British government and the United Kingdom’s Royal Astronomical Society. In a parallel career, he is a broadcaster and commentator for the BBC and CNN and is identified as the co-discoverer of the first stellar black hole found in our Galaxy, Cygnus X-1.

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Stuart Murdoch

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Stuart Murdoch is a Scottish musician, writer, and filmmaker. He is the founding member, lead singer, and songwriter for Belle and Sebastian.

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Kiyonori Muroga

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Kiyonori Muroga established his career as editor in chief of IDEA magazine, a Tokyo-based publication focused on graphic design and typography.

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Al Murphy

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Al Murphy is an illustrator whose work has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and children’s books worldwide. He has inspired many to pursue a career in illustration, confident they can do better.

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Toby Musgrave

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Toby Musgrave is a leading authority on garden history and design. He lives in Denmark.

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David Musgrove

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David Musgrove is content director for BBC History Magazine, BBC World Histories, and BBC History Revealed.

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Terry R. Myers

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Terry R. Myers is a critic, curator, and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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William Myers

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William Myers is a writer, teacher, and curator based in Amsterdam. He has worked for the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Guggenheim, and Genspace, the first community biotech lab in the United States. His writing has appeared in Metropolis magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, and New York Magazine.

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Margaret Nagawa

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Margaret Nagawa is a PhD candidate specializing in African art at Emory University. Her research centers on the intersectionality among visual, literary, and performance art and the interplay between so-called traditional and contemporary arts as sites for material experimentation. Nagawa studied painting and sculpture at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and graduated with a first class honors degree. She attained her MA in curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, before working with the October Gallery in London, teaching and curating exhibitions at the Makerere Art Gallery, and leading several collaborative artists' initiatives in Uganda.

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Eleanor Nairne

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Eleanor Nairne is an art historian and curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London, where her previous exhibitions include “Basquiat: Boom for Real.” She has contributed to publications including the Basquiat monograph Kings, Heroes and the Street: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and is a contributor to Frieze. She is a former Jerwood writer in residence.

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Ikumi Nakamura

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Ikumi Nakamura is an independent creative, explorer, and videogame designer. Since 2004, she has explored and photographed abandoned and uninhabited places and spaces across Europe, Asia, and the United States to fid inspiration for her games. Influenced by the videogame S.T.A.L.K.E.R., she created a mysterious style of wearing a hoodie and gas mask when exploring. She also aspires to become a secrets hunter on the Japanese TV show Discovery of the World's Mysteries. The experiences and records of her photography pursuits are published on the website Tomboy Urbex.

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Jean-Christophe Napias

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Jean-Christophe Napias is an author, translator, and editor of books on dandies, dance music, and camp culture. His recent publications include The World According to Karl, Choupette: The Private Life of a High-Flying Fashion Cat, and The World According to Coco.

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Barbara Nascimbeni

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Barbara Nascimbeni is an Italian and German illustrator who has published books in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Korea.

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Steven A. Nash

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Steven A. Nash‘s work on modern artists includes books on Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, and Picasso.

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Chris Naunton

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Dr. Chris Naunton is an Egyptologist, writer, and broadcaster. An expert on Egypt in the first millennium BCE and the history of Egyptology, he has published extensively on both subjects, and has presented numerous related television documentaries, including Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy (2013) and King Tut's Tomb: The Hidden Chamber (2016). He worked for many years at the Egypt Exploration Society, London, acting as its director between 2012 and 2016. From 2015 to 2019 he was president of the International Association of Egyptologists and in 2016 he became director of the Robert Anderson Trust, a charity that provides support for young scholars visiting London to further their studies and research.

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Trevor Naylor

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Trevor Naylor is the author of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Illustrated: A Formal Writing System Used in Ancient Egypt and a quiz grand master. He is a passionate quizmaster and puzzler and has lived for many years in Cairo, Egypt.

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Richard T. Neer

University of Chicago

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Richard T. Neer is David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities and Art History, at the College at the University of Chicago, where he is also a coeditor of Critical Inquiry and an affiliate of the Departments of Classics and Cinema & Media Studies. He is also Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry. He works on the intersection of aesthetics, archaeology, and art history, with particular emphasis on Classical Greek and neo-Classical French art. Interests include the development of naturalism; Archaic and Classical Athens; the circle of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain; phenomenology; and theories of style.

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Lyndon Neri

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Lyndon Neri is cofounder of Neri&Hu, a Shanghai-based architecture practice that works internationally providing architecture, interior, master-planning, graphic, and product design services.

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Christopher Neve

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Christopher Neve is a painter and writer. He is the author of several books and articles. His book Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting arose out of long talks with Ben Nicholson and other artists.

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