Ron Magliozzi is a Curator in the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sophie Cavoulacos is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Film, MoMA. Jim Hoberman is a film writer and journalist based in New York. Jenny Schlenzka is the Executive Artistic Director at Performance Space 122. Laura Hoptman is a Curator in the Department of Painting & Sculpture, MoMA. Lucy Gallun is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Photograph, MoMA. Ann Magnuson is a performance and recording artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She was the manager and performance curator at Club 57 from 1979 to 1980.
Opened in 1978, it quickly became a center for all manner of creative experimentation: photography, video, zines, performance, music, and theater, and more than a few important artists emerged from its damp depths: Keith Haring, who used to perform from inside a fake TV set; the painter Kenny Scharf; the team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who would go on to write the music and lyrics for Hairspray.--Lynn Yaeger Vogue