Marica Vilcek worked as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for thirty years and is currently an Honorary Trustee of the Museum, as well as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the NYU Institute of Fine Arts. She is co-founder, with Jan Vilcek, of the Vilcek Foundation.

Justin Spring is an award-winning biographer, curator, art historian, and writer on twentieth century American art and culture. His biography Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward was a 2011 Finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship.