Eleanor Nairne is Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was Senior Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London, where her exhibitions included ‘Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle’ (2023), ‘Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty’ (2021), ‘Lee Krasner: Living Colour’ (2019) and ‘Basquiat: Boom for Real’ (2017).