Staff

EDITORIAL TEAM

George Melrod, Editor. For over 20 years, George Melrod has written hundreds of articles on contemporary art, culture and media for such publications as ARTnewsArt in AmericaWorld ArtAmerican CeramicsLos Angeles TimesDetailsVogue, among others. In the 1990s, he was the New York critic for Sculpture magazine, and wrote a regular contemporary art column for Art & Antiques,for whom he worked as a Contributing Editor. A native New Yorker, he moved to LA in 1998. Since 2007, he has been the founding editor of art ltd.

Molly Enholm, Managing Editor. In addition to writing for art ltd., Molly is a contributing writer to ArtScene, visualartsource.com and Hi-Fructose magazine. She is also a lecturer on Modern, Contemporary and Asian art history at California State University Northridge.

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Peter Frank, Los Angeles
Adjunct Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum and art critic for The Huntington Post. He is past critic for Angeleno magazine, LA Weekly, and was editor for The Magazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly. In New York, Frank served as art critic for The Village Voice and SoHo Weekly News.

Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles
Art critic, independent curator and novelist. Her reviews and features have appeared in major publications, including ARTnewsArtweekTimeOut LA and Venice Magazine. She currently is the Arts (and Books) editor for LA Canvas, LA editor for Whitehot Magazine and a regular contributor to the LA Weekly.

DeWitt Cheng, San Francisco
A freelance art writer and curator based in San Francisco. He writes for Artweek, East Bay Express, Artillery, ArtSlant.com, SanFrancicoArtMagazine.com, Shotgun-Review.com and ArtBusiness.com. His work has appeared as well in ArtNews, The California Printmaker, Arte al Dia, Coagula and Contemporary Impressions.

Peter Frank, Los Angeles
Adjunct Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum and art critic for The Huntington Post. He is past critic for Angeleno magazine, LA Weekly, and was editor for The Magazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly. In New York, Frank served as art critic for The Village Voice and SoHo Weekly News.

Michael Paglia, Denver
Art and architecture writer whose work appears in Denver’s Westword, Paglia has contributed to ArtnewsArt + AuctionArchitectureModernism and Sculpture Magazine, and has been the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, notably Colorado Abstract. A lecturer at the University of Colorado Denver, he is also a script-writer for documentaries on art for Colorado Public Television.

Richard Speer, Portland
Author of Matt Lamb: The Art of Success (John Wiley & Sons), Speer is visual arts critic at Williamette Week, The Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly in Portland, and a frequent contributor to ARTnews and Opera News.

James Yood, Chicago
A teacher of modern and contemporary art history and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he also directs its New Arts Journalism program. He is regional correspondent and art critic for ArtForumArt and Auctiontema celeste, and GLASS magazine. His published works include: “Portraits of Chicago Artists,” “William Morris: Animal/Artifact,” and “Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-95.”

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:

Megan Abrahams
Kenneth Baker
Debra Barrera
Kim Beil
Steven Biller
Betty Ann Brown
Lauren Buscemi
Jon Carver
Carol Cheh
Scarlet Cheng
Charles Donelan
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue
Robin Dluzen
Lea Feinstein
Christian L. Frock
Liz Goldner
Margery Gordon
Charles Hood
Matthew Irwin
Matthew Kangas
Naima Keith
Kelly Klaasmeyer
Mary Anne Kluth
Simone Kussatz
Leora Lutz
Amanda Manitach
Iris McLister
Sarah Margolis-Pineo
Christopher Michno
A. Moret
Barbara Morris
Elwyn Palmerton
Hearne Pardee
Caroline Picard
Robert L Pincus
Maria Porges
Deborah Ross
Shawn Rossiter
David M. Roth
Nancy Salem
James Scarborough
John Seed
Peter Selz
Donna Tennant
Chérie L. Turner
Mark Van Proyen
Daniella Walsh
Lisa Wainwright
Patricia Watts
Rebecca Weller
Eve Wood
Nancy Zastudil
Jody Zellen
John Zotos