Richard Calvocoressi has been Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh since 1987 and was formerly a curator at the Tate Gallery (1979-87). During his time in Edinburgh, he has built up the Scottish national collection as an important centre for Dada and Surrealist art and literature. He has published on various artists including Magritte, Klee, Kokoschka, Lucian Freud, Lee Miller, Tinguely and Baselitz. For Century City, Tate Modern’s opening exhibition in 2001, he co-curated the section on ‘Vienna 1908-1918’.