Bruce Altshuler is Director of the Museum Studies program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He is the author of The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century (1994), and Isamu Noguchi (1994); editor of Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art (2005); and co-editor of Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations (1994). In 2010, Altshuler was awarded the Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellowship to support research on Volume 2 of his book Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History (Phaidon Press). The first volume, covering 1863–1959, was identified as one of the outstanding art books of 2008 by the art critics of theNew York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday Times (London), and the Economist.