Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, an art historian and critic, is the Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Harvard University. He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 and Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art, both published by the MIT Press. In 2007 Buchloh received the Golden Lion for Contemporary Art History and Criticism at the Venice Biennale.