Ben Street is an Art History teacher, gallery educator and freelance curator based in London. He is a lecturer at the National Gallery and has been a gallery educator at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Hayward Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Courtauld Gallery, London. He writes on contemporary art for Art21, Artnet and Art Review and has written catalogue essays for galleries in Antwerp, Dublin and London. He leads regular art-historical excursions to northern Italy for Art History Abroad. Ben is currently involved with a new art space in north-west London, Intervention Gallery, for which he co-curated the group exhibition 'Fine Things to be Seen'. Ben's collected writings can be found on his blog, here: http://thebenstreet.blogspot.com/