Gianni Mercurio, curator and writer, lives and works in Rome. He is the author of The Andy Warhol Show (2004), The Keith Haring Show (2005), and The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show (2006) published by Skira. Demetrio Paparoni founded the contemporary art magazine Tema Celeste in 1983, acting as its editor-in-chief until 2000. He teaches the history of contemporary art at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Catania.