Ann Hamilton & Joan Simon in conversation, September 2007

Ann Hamilton is the recipient of many honors including the MacArthur Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim and Louis Comfort Tiffany grants, and the Skowhegan Medal for sculpture. She was the US representative at the 1999 Venice Biennale and the 1991 Sao Paulo Bienal. Her installations and objects are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide.

Joan Simon, curator-at-large for the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a writer, curator, editor, and arts administrator based in Paris who has worked independently for museums, foundations, and publishers in the United States and in Europe. A former managing editor of Art in America (1974-1983), Simon has published extensively on contemporary art.