Art critic, essayist, activist and, currently, co-director of the visual studies program at the University of Rochester, Douglas Crimp has been one of the protagonists of the renewal of the critical discourse of art in the United States in the last three decades. He was a member of the editorial board of October from 1977 to 1990 and, since 1987, a militant of ACT UP, dedicating his efforts to analyze and denounce the representations of the gay collective and the AIDS epidemic built from power. He is the author of numerous essays, some of them collected in two books On the Museums ruins (1993) and Melancholia and Moralism (2002). In recent years he has developed a project of critical review of Andy Warhol's film production.