Antonia Pocock Author

Bettina Grossman (1928–2021; born in New York) preferred to be known as “Bettina.” She spent ten years in Paris during the 1950s before returning to her hometown of New York. In 2020, artist Yto Barrada and the designer Gregor Huber began to produce a book of Bettina’s work, a draft of which won the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2020. This book was developed in collaboration with Bettina up until her death in November 2021. Yto Barrada is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice that encompasses photography, film, sculpture, textile, painting, and printmaking. Her many publications and catalogues include A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project (2005) and Tree Identification for Beginners (2018). In 2006, she founded Cinémathèque de Tanger, the first repertory cinema and archive in Tangier, Morocco. Ruba Katrib, formerly curator at SculptureCenter, New York, is curator at MoMA PS1 in New York.  Antonia Pocock is an art scholar and writer, and she teaches art history at the New York City College of Technology. Previously, she held fellowships at the Menil Collection, Houston; Morgan Library and Museum, and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gregor Huber runs the award-winning design studio Huber/Sterzinger and the publishing initiative Edition Hors-Sujet with Ivan Sterzinger.