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Michael R. Taylor
Dr. Michael R. Taylor joined the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2015 as the Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education. A native of London, England, Taylor served as Director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College until March 2015. Prior to his tenure at Hood, Taylor served as the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art and Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1997 until 2011. A highly regarded museum administrator, curator, author, and expert on modern and contemporary art, Taylor is a scholar of Dada and Surrealism with a focus on the work and ideas of Marcel Duchamp. Taylor’s 2009 exhibition catalogue, Marcel Duchamp: Étantdonnés, won both the prestigious George Wittenborn Prize and first prize for best museum permanent collection catalogue by the American Association of Art Museum Curators.