Philoso­pher and art crit­ic Daniel Birn­baum is one of the world’s most promi­nent art cura­tors. He is the for­mer direc­tor of the Mod­er­na Museet (Muse­um of Mod­ern Art) in Stock­holm and has man­aged muse­ums and art schools in Ger­many and Italy, and curat­ed the Venice Bien­nale. He is cur­rent­ly the artis­tic direc­tor of Acute Art, an avant-garde stu­dio based in Lon­don, and a con­tribut­ing edi­tor at Art­fo­rum. Dr. B. is his first nov­el. He lives in London.