Robert Atkins is a UC Berkeley-trained art historian, journalist, curator, and educator. A former columnist for the Village Voice, he has written for more than 100 publications worldwide and among his many books is Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression, published by the New Press. He has curated exhibitions in far-flung venues from Sao Paolo, Brazil to New York and co-curated From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, the first international traveling exhibition of AIDS-art. A pioneer of online art production and commentary, he is a fellow of the STUDIO from Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and producer of Artery: the AIDS Arts Forum, He is also a founder of Visual AIDS, the producers of "Day With(out) Art" and the "Red Ribbon".