John J. Curley is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has published widely on postwar American and European art. He is the author of A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War (Yale University Press, 2013) and Global Art and the Cold War appeared in 2019 (Laurence King). He is currently at work on a new book project provisionally titled “Critical Distance: Black American Artists in Europe 1958-1968.”