Cross Purpose

Cathy Cash Spellman has worked as creative director at Revlon and vice president and board member at Bloomingdale’s. She served on the Board of United Retail and the Upledger Institute and owned her own marketing and advertising agency for seven years. Spellman has authored many books featured on The New York Times Bestseller List, including So Many Partings; An Excess of Love; and Paint the Wind. She has also written for Cosmopolitan; Town & Country; and Harper’s Bazaar, among others.

Cathy Cash Spellman has worked as creative director at Revlon and vice president and board member at Bloomingdale’s. She served on the Board of United Retail and the Upledger Institute and owned her own marketing and advertising agency for seven years. Spellman has authored many books featured on The New York Times Bestseller List, including So Many Partings; An Excess of Love; and Paint the Wind. She has also written for Cosmopolitan; Town & Country; and Harper’s Bazaar, among others.

Diane M. Kirkpatrick, PhD, was a professor of art history at the University of Michigan for over thirty years. Having served as chair of the university’s Department of History of Art and as interim director of the Institute for the Humanities, Kirkpatrick has also published many papers, specializing in contemporary art, photography, cinema, and technological media. For her outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, Professor Kirkpatrick was named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in 1997.

Charles A. Riley II is a cultural historian, journalist, and professor at the City University of New York. He is the author of thirty-one books, including Arthur Carter: Sculptures, Drawings, and Paintings; Color Codes; and The Saints of Modern Art. His articles have appeared in Art & Antiques; Antiques and Fine Art; Flashart; Fortune, and many other magazines. During the summer of 2013, as he wrote this essay, he was a fellow of the Rubin Museum.