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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

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

HH, University of Pennsylvania | Wednesday, January 30, 2002; 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free at Door (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy, Andrew Zitcer
Staged Series



Project Website (with 32 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11021/

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.