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"Unraveling Ariadne's thread: de Chirico on display in Philadelphia"

Michael Taylor

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Event Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2002
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Staged Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Andrew Zitcer

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Michael Taylor is Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (1997 to Present). He received a Masters of Arts Degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland for work on Robert Motherwell, and a Masters of Arts Degree and a Doctorate of Philosophy in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London for work on Marcel Duchamp. He has curated exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Pennsylvania Impressionism, Philadelphia and American Modernism, and Contemporary Art. His upcoming exhibitions at the museum include “Giorgio de Chirico: The Ariadne Series” (2002); and “The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern and African Art” (2003). He is the co-author (with Ann Temkin and Susan Rosenberg), of Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2000). He has delivered lectures on Matisse, Bonnard, Moore, Duchamp, Picasso and Delacroix, Stieglitz, De Chirico and Atget.

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