Joshua Decter is a New York-based writer, curator, art historian, and theorist. In addition to Art is a Problem, Decter is co-author of a forthcoming book in Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series on the 1993 exhibition, “Culture in Action.” He has curated exhibitions at PS1, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Apex Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Kunsthalle Vienna, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and was a curatorial interlocutor for inSite_05. Decter founded the MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the University of Southern California, and has taught at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, the School of Visual Arts, NYU, and other institutions.