Seeing Loud, Basquiat and Music

Mary-Dailey Desmarais is Chief Curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MBAM). She curated the major exhibitions "Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism: Signac and the Indépendants" (2020), and "Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film" (2017).

Dieter Buchhart is a curator and art theorist based in Vienna. He has PhD degrees in art history and restoration (science). He has curated many exhibitions in renowned international museums and art spaces and was co-curator of the Fondation Louis Vuitton's exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat (3 October 2018-21 January 2019).

Journalist and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Jazzman magazine, Vincent Bessières curated the exhibitions We Want Miles (2009) and Django Reinhardt, Swing de Paris (2012) at the Cité de la Musique–Philharmonie de Paris.