Mark Scala is chief curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Scala has mounted multiple major exhibitions at the Frist, the publications for which focus on transformation in global contemporary art such as Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century (2018). Nora N. Khan is an independent critic, curator, and professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts. Publications include Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism and Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World (editor). She is a contributing curator for the Curatorial Collective of Counterpublic, 2026.
