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Beatriz Garcia-Velasco is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate. Maria Balshaw is Director of Tate. Previously, she was Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester; Director of Manchester City Galleries; and Director of Culture for Manchester City Council. Maria is Chair of the National Museum Directors' Council and is a Trustee of the Factory International Board in Manchester. She is also a member of the Women Leaders in Museums Network and a member of the Bizot group of leading global museums. In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for services to the arts. Jo Applin is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she is also Director of the Centre for American Art. She writes on modern and contemporary art. Sean Burns is an artist, editor and writer based in London. He is the author of Look Again: Death (2023, Tate Publishing). Brian Dillon is an Irish writer and critic based in London. His writing has appeared in frieze, ArtForum, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. Ismail Einashe is a journalist and writer whose work on migration and refugee issues has won multiple awards. He was written for numerous publications, including the Guardian, BBC News, Foreign Policy, the Sunday Times, frieze and ArtReview. He is the author of Look Again: Strangers (2023, Tate Publishing). Martin Gayford is a writer, critic and curator. He was co-author with David Hockney of A History of Pictures (2016) and Spring Cannot Be Cancelled (2021) and co-curator of the exhibition Hockney's Eye at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Amelia Groom is a Berlin-based writer and art historian. Her book Beverly Buchanan: Marsh Ruins was published in 2021. Vanessa Peterson is a writer and editor based in London. She is associate editor of frieze magazine. Barry Schwabsky is an art critic and poet based in New York City. He is the art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum.