Laura Hoptman is Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum, where, in addition to curating 'Elizabeth Peyton,' she co-curated the exhibition 'Unmonumental' (2007). Previously she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Contemporary Art, where she organized the 54th Carnegie International (2004-05).

Iwona Blazwick is Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. As Head of Exhibitions and Display at Tate Modern, London (1997-2001), and as an independent curator, she has realized many international exhibitions of contemporary and twentieth-century art and has published texts on numerous artists.

John Giorno is a poet, performance artist, and AIDS activist. He met Andy Warhol while working as a stockbroker in the early 1960s and subsequently became a prominent figure of the Factory and the subject of one of Warhol s best-known films, Sleep. Through his work, he has long been an advocate of collaboration, counting William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert Mapplethorpe among his many associates.

Newly available in paperback Live Forever documents Peyton's works from her entire career and includes magazine clippings, historical paintings and unpublished snapshots from her personal archive, along with detailed commentaries on the individual works. Peyton's paintings exemplify new ideas of masculinity while offering a seductive record of an ephemeral scene, updating David Hockney's intimate 1960s Pop draughtsmanship for the present day. Works by Peyton can be found in major collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.