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58 culturedmag.com contributors Independent art critic, curator and artist RYAN STEADMAN has organized a series of acclaimed exhibitions in New York City, most recently at Sotheby's New York's S|2 gallery and at the Nathalie Karg Gallery. He is a regular contributor at the New York Observer and wrote reviews for artforum.com and Modern Painters. For Cultured, Steadman visited with artist Joel Shapiro and got a glimpse at the Berggruen gallery's new home across from SFMOMA. New York-based ELENA WANG teaches and writes about fashion for a range of outlets including Racked.com, San Francisco's 7x7.com and The Fashion Studies Journal. Her current projects include a book on the cultural politics of the high fashion industry. For her first contribution to Cultured, Wang spoke to Bay Area-bred creative forces Mariah Nielson and Fanny Singer about their new fashion label, Permanent Collection. PHOTO BY ZACH GROSS (SIMMONS) TIFFANY LAMBERT is a curator and writer based in New York. She has worked as the managing editor of PIN–UP and curated exhibitions at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Her writing has been published in Disegno, Surface, TANK and The New York Times. She serves as visiting faculty at the Pratt Institute. In this issue she sits down with White Columns Director Matthew Higgs. "Slipping into the historic scene of how White Columns came to exist was a welcome excuse to re-explore the visionary work at the once raw, artist-run space at 112 Greene Street." WILLIAM J. SIMMONS received his B.A. in art history and queer theory at Harvard University, and is currently a lecturer in art history at the City College of New York. He is the art editor of CRUSHfanzine and has contributed to Artforum, Art in America, frieze, BOMB, Aperture, Mousse, Interview, W, Flaunt and V. He was the curator of the landmark exhibition "Queer Fantasy" at Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, and he has written monograph essays for books by Frank Holliday and Billy Sullivan. In this issue he sits down with artist Julie Mehretu for our cover story, "Insisting on Opacity." "Julie is as kind and generous as she is incisive and thought-provoking," he says. "It's not every day that you get to meet one of your heroes."