Hilton Als is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has curated shows about Alice Neel at David Zwirner, New York, USA, and James Baldwin at Victoria Miro, London, UK. He is the curator of ‘From Black and White to Living Color: The Collected Motion Pictures and Accompanying Documents of Kara E. Walker, Artist’, Sprüth Magers, London, which runs from 4 October until 21 December.