is the pen name of Gérard Regnier, the great author, curator and art critic. Jean Clair studied philosophy and art history at Sorbonne University, and received a Ph.D. in art history from Harvard. In 1966, he was made curator at the Parisian Musée National d’Art Moderne, which he left in 1970 to become editor-in-chief of art magazine L’Art Vivant, only to return to the Centre Georges Pompidou five years later. There, he made his name with an exposition on Marcel Duchamp in 1977, and with two exhibitions on twentieth century art. In the meantime, he wrote influential monographs on Bonnard and Balthus. In 1989, he became the director of the Musée National Picasso in Paris, organizing several important national and international expositions and leading the one hundredth edition of the Venetian Biennal in 1995. Jean Clair was among the first to approach art in an interdisciplinary way, combining both art and science in his expositions. He received numerous prizes for his work and was elected into the Académie Française in 2008. He contributed essays to Nexus 27 and 50.