Donatien Grau

Donatien Grau, a scholar, editor, author, and museum executive, has published widely on the arts and culture of the Roman Empire, on nineteenth– and twentieth–century literary and art history, as well as on contemporary art and culture, dedicating numerous publications to museums and their thinking. Over the years, he has remained a close friend and collaborator to artists across disciplines, while retaining a practice of classical philology. He is the author of "The Age of Creation" (Sternberg, 2013); "The Transitory Museum", with Emanuele Coccia (Polity, 2019); and "De Civitate Angelorum" (Yvon Lambert, 2022). He is the editor-in-chief and artistic director of "Alphabet magazine", as well as the chair of the Pierre Guyotat estate and the head of contemporary programs at the Louvre.