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Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor. She is Managing Editor of the Creative Team at MoMA, New York, where she leads digital content production. She received her Ph.D from Harvard University; following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a Senior Editor at Artforum magazine (2012-2017), and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner (2018). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books online, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications. She is currently writing a book about the artists of Coenties Slip in 1950s-60s New York for Harper.