Martha Buskirk is professor of Art History and Criticism at Montserrat College of Art. In addition to her most recent book, <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344594/is-it-ours">Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest</a> (University of California Press, 2021), she is author of The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2003), Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace (Bloomsbury, 2012), and numerous articles, anthology contributions, and catalog essays.

Martha Buskirk

Alex Weintraub is an art historian and critic based in New York City. He earned his PhD from Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology.

Alex Weintraub

Letter to the Editor: Martha Buskirk Responds to Alex Weintraub

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Is It Ours?: Art, Copyright, and Pubic Interest

Picturing the Public Interest

Waste of Space

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

Betraying Camp

The Beauty of a Rom-Com

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

Fictions of Temperament

Rites of Return

Losing My VR-ginity, and Other Disappointments at the World’s First Virtual Reality Cinema

Divine Wisdom: Polyester and the Return of Trash Cinema

Alex Weintraub is an art historian and critic based in New York City. He earned his PhD from Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology.