One of Jon Gam’s greatest passions was the Mission Critical Series: THE avenue for contemporary art critics to publish current thought and debate about art.
The mission critical series evolved out of his relationship in particular with art critic and professor Raphael Rubinstein. Jon edited Raphael’s poetry in the 90’s (it’s amazing how many critics are poets under their skin) and then collaborated on several art criticism and monograph titles together. Rubinstein then became the Mission Critical Series editor, — the latest in the series being Seeing Out Louder by Jerry Saltz.