Raphael Rubinstein, Senior Editor at Art in America and Contributing Editor at Lacanian Ink, Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston, is a fervent francophile who studied French literature, contemporary art and philosophy in Paris. He has been a strong proponent of postwar French contemporary art, eloquently arguing that it ranks alongside the best in contemporary art. An accomplished poet and writer, his translation of Lettre à Antionio Saura, by Marcel Cohen, has been critically acclaimed (In Search of a Lost Ladino, Ibis Editions, 2006). Rubinstein was awarded the John McCarron New Writing in Arts Criticism Award in 1992.