Tom Huhn is the chair of the Art History and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.  He received a PhD in Philosophy from Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the University of Graz, Austria.  His books include: Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant; The Cambridge Companion to Adorno; The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste; and The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.  His publications include: New German Critique, Art & Text, Oxford Art Journal, British Journal of Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Telos, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Art Book, Art in America. Huhn has been a Getty Scholar and Fulbright Scholar.  Huhn’s curatorial works include: "Ornament and Landscape," at Apex Gallery; "Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life," at the Visual Arts Museum and Westport Arts Center; “Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting” at the Visual Arts Gallery, NYC