Talks
Talks and Papers Presented
2022
'Public Objects: Revisiting Alexander Calder's Hawk for Peace,' (public lecture), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.
'Men of Form: Frank Stanton and Henry Moore,' (conference paper, via Zoom), Henry Moore Studios and Gardens, Perry Green.
‘Fortune Magazine and the Continuous Joy of Coal Mining,’ (conference paper, via Zoom) College Art Association conference 2022, Chicago.
‘Smoke and Mirrors,’ (book talk via Zoom), Smithsonian American Art Museum Lunchtime Seminar Series.
‘Blake Gopnik in Conversation with Alex J. Taylor (public talk), Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, Pittsburgh.
2021
‘Time Suspended: Alexander Calder in Airplane Mode,’ (conference paper, via Zoom), About Time: Temporality in American Visual Culture, Université de Paris, Paris.
‘In Conversation: Alex J. Taylor and Barbara Jones’ (gallery talk, streamed via YouTube), Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
‘In Conversation with Haim Steinbach’ (gallery talk, via Zoom), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
2020
‘Repackaging the 1960s’ (via Zoom), Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California.
‘Decorating with Haim Steinbach’ (conference paper, via Zoom), Political Values, Market Values, Art Values: The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s, Princeton University.
‘Approaching the Archive: American Art Archives in Britain’ (panel discussion, via Zoom), Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
‘Decorating with Haim Steinbach,’ Colloquium Presentation, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh.
2018
‘Virginio Ferrari and the Sculpture of the Jet Age,’ Department of Art History, University of Chicago.
‘Trademarks and Trade Ads: Warhol’s Corporate Patrons 1963-4,’ The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
‘Rusting Giant: U.S Steel and the Promotional Material of Sculpture,’ Power Institute for Art and Visual Culture, Sydney.
‘Richard Smith’s American Taste’ (conference paper), British Abstraction after World War II, College Art Association conference 2018, Los Angeles.
‘Alexander Calder’s Pittsburgh’ (public talk), Office of Public Art in association with the Pittsburgh International Airport.
2017
‘Hard Edge, Soft Sell: Richard Smith’s Transatlantic Abstractions’ (conference paper), In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism, 1940-1980,’ University of St Andrews.
‘Richard Smith’s American Tastes,’ Colloquium Presentation, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh.
‘Working for the Man: Richard Serra and the Kaiser Steel Company’ (conference paper), Objects of Exchange: Art and Economic Encounters, Institut National d’Histoire de l’art, Paris.
‘Museum Collections in the Digital Humanities’ (panel discussion), Provenance Symposium, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
2016
‘Making Money: Coins by Sculptors in 1962’ (conference paper), Art and the Monetary, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University.
‘Public Art Scholars Workshop’ (invited workshop respondent), Art Design Chicago, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
‘Rusting Giant: Sculpture and Big Steel in the 1960s’ (invited seminar paper), Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies Seminar, University of Glasgow
‘David Smith and Colour’ (gallery talk), Hauser and Wirth, Zurich.
2015
‘Subversive Bodies: Performance and the Early Work of Alexander Calder,’ Fundacion Jumex Contemporaneo Arte, Mexico City.
‘Transactions,’ (conference paper), Shifting Terrain: Mapping a Transnational American Art History, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
2014
‘Reconsidering the Average Object of Art, 1965-1966’ (symposium paper), Pop art and Beyond, University College London.
2013
‘Flying Colours: Alexander Calder and the Jet Age’ (conference paper), Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel.
‘The Transatlantic Turn: Henry Moore and the Time-Life Building’ (conference paper), 39th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference, University of Reading.
‘Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Enterprise in the 1960s’ (symposium presentation), Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny.
‘Executive Modern: Abstraction and the Art of Office Planning’ (conference paper), 101st Annual College Art Association Conference, New York.
‘The Sculpture of Hans Josephsohn’ (gallery talk), Modern Art Oxford.
2012
‘The Friction Disappears: A Case Study in Pop, Packaging and Patronage’ (symposium paper), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2011
‘The Sculpture of Thomas Houseago’ (gallery talk), Modern Art Oxford.
2010
‘Trilby’s Demise: The Rise and Fall of La Vie Bohème in Australia’ (conference paper), Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900, University of Liverpool.
2007
‘Perils of the Studio: Bohemian Myth in Melbourne Literature’ (book talk), Melbourne Writers Festival
‘Perils of the Studio: Bohemian Myth in Melbourne Literature’ (book talk), State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
2003
‘In conversation with Christian Thompson and Catherine Bell’ (panel discussion), Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts.
2001
‘Bridget Riley’s Opening’ (gallery talk), National Gallery of Victoria.
‘Tom Roberts’ Portrait of Mrs. Louis Abrahams’ (gallery talk), National Gallery of Victoria.
Conferences and Workshops Organized
2020
‘Art and Corporate Ethics: Historical Perspectives,’ College Art Association conference, Chicago. Panel co-convened with Caroline Riley.
2019
‘Commercial Pictures and the Arts and Technics of Visual Persuasion,’ Hagley Library and Archives, Wilmington. Conference co-convened with Vanessa Schwartz and Jennifer Greenhill.
‘Work Forces: Mobilizing the Visual and Material Cultures of Labor,’ Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Workshop co-convened with Barbara McCloskey.
2018
‘Mining Value: Art and the Extraction of Resources,’ Power Institute for Art and Visual Culture, Sydney. Conference co-convened with Maggie Cao, Sophie Cras and Mark Ledbury.
‘Making Advances: Sex, Gender and the Politics of Images,’ Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Workshop co-convened with Kate Joranson.
2017
‘Border Control: On the Edges of American Art,’ Tate Liverpool. Conference co-convened with Julia Tatiana Bailey.
‘Consuming Nature: Landscapes through the lens of the Anthropocene,’ Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Workshop co-convened with Isabelle Chartier.
2016
‘Special Relationships: American Artists and their Collaborators,’ Tate. Workshop co-convened with Matthew Holman.
2015
‘Crash and Burn: Destruction in American Art,’ Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Conference co-convened with Helene Valance.
‘Marshalling American Art: Exhibiting Ideology in the Cold War,’ Tate. Workshop co-convened with Julia Tatiana Bailey.
‘American Art in Unlikely Places: Exhibitions beyond the Transatlantic Axis,’ College Art Association Conference, Panel convenor and chair.
2022
'Public Objects: Revisiting Alexander Calder's Hawk for Peace,' (public lecture), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.
'Men of Form: Frank Stanton and Henry Moore,' (conference paper, via Zoom), Henry Moore Studios and Gardens, Perry Green.
‘Fortune Magazine and the Continuous Joy of Coal Mining,’ (conference paper, via Zoom) College Art Association conference 2022, Chicago.
‘Smoke and Mirrors,’ (book talk via Zoom), Smithsonian American Art Museum Lunchtime Seminar Series.
‘Blake Gopnik in Conversation with Alex J. Taylor (public talk), Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, Pittsburgh.
2021
‘Time Suspended: Alexander Calder in Airplane Mode,’ (conference paper, via Zoom), About Time: Temporality in American Visual Culture, Université de Paris, Paris.
‘In Conversation: Alex J. Taylor and Barbara Jones’ (gallery talk, streamed via YouTube), Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
‘In Conversation with Haim Steinbach’ (gallery talk, via Zoom), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
2020
‘Repackaging the 1960s’ (via Zoom), Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California.
‘Decorating with Haim Steinbach’ (conference paper, via Zoom), Political Values, Market Values, Art Values: The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s, Princeton University.
‘Approaching the Archive: American Art Archives in Britain’ (panel discussion, via Zoom), Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
‘Decorating with Haim Steinbach,’ Colloquium Presentation, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh.
2018
‘Virginio Ferrari and the Sculpture of the Jet Age,’ Department of Art History, University of Chicago.
‘Trademarks and Trade Ads: Warhol’s Corporate Patrons 1963-4,’ The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
‘Rusting Giant: U.S Steel and the Promotional Material of Sculpture,’ Power Institute for Art and Visual Culture, Sydney.
‘Richard Smith’s American Taste’ (conference paper), British Abstraction after World War II, College Art Association conference 2018, Los Angeles.
‘Alexander Calder’s Pittsburgh’ (public talk), Office of Public Art in association with the Pittsburgh International Airport.
2017
‘Hard Edge, Soft Sell: Richard Smith’s Transatlantic Abstractions’ (conference paper), In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism, 1940-1980,’ University of St Andrews.
‘Richard Smith’s American Tastes,’ Colloquium Presentation, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh.
‘Working for the Man: Richard Serra and the Kaiser Steel Company’ (conference paper), Objects of Exchange: Art and Economic Encounters, Institut National d’Histoire de l’art, Paris.
‘Museum Collections in the Digital Humanities’ (panel discussion), Provenance Symposium, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
2016
‘Making Money: Coins by Sculptors in 1962’ (conference paper), Art and the Monetary, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University.
‘Public Art Scholars Workshop’ (invited workshop respondent), Art Design Chicago, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
‘Rusting Giant: Sculpture and Big Steel in the 1960s’ (invited seminar paper), Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies Seminar, University of Glasgow
‘David Smith and Colour’ (gallery talk), Hauser and Wirth, Zurich.
2015
‘Subversive Bodies: Performance and the Early Work of Alexander Calder,’ Fundacion Jumex Contemporaneo Arte, Mexico City.
‘Transactions,’ (conference paper), Shifting Terrain: Mapping a Transnational American Art History, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
2014
‘Reconsidering the Average Object of Art, 1965-1966’ (symposium paper), Pop art and Beyond, University College London.
2013
‘Flying Colours: Alexander Calder and the Jet Age’ (conference paper), Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel.
‘The Transatlantic Turn: Henry Moore and the Time-Life Building’ (conference paper), 39th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference, University of Reading.
‘Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Enterprise in the 1960s’ (symposium presentation), Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny.
‘Executive Modern: Abstraction and the Art of Office Planning’ (conference paper), 101st Annual College Art Association Conference, New York.
‘The Sculpture of Hans Josephsohn’ (gallery talk), Modern Art Oxford.
2012
‘The Friction Disappears: A Case Study in Pop, Packaging and Patronage’ (symposium paper), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2011
‘The Sculpture of Thomas Houseago’ (gallery talk), Modern Art Oxford.
2010
‘Trilby’s Demise: The Rise and Fall of La Vie Bohème in Australia’ (conference paper), Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900, University of Liverpool.
2007
‘Perils of the Studio: Bohemian Myth in Melbourne Literature’ (book talk), Melbourne Writers Festival
‘Perils of the Studio: Bohemian Myth in Melbourne Literature’ (book talk), State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
2003
‘In conversation with Christian Thompson and Catherine Bell’ (panel discussion), Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts.
2001
‘Bridget Riley’s Opening’ (gallery talk), National Gallery of Victoria.
‘Tom Roberts’ Portrait of Mrs. Louis Abrahams’ (gallery talk), National Gallery of Victoria.
Conferences and Workshops Organized
2020
‘Art and Corporate Ethics: Historical Perspectives,’ College Art Association conference, Chicago. Panel co-convened with Caroline Riley.
2019
‘Commercial Pictures and the Arts and Technics of Visual Persuasion,’ Hagley Library and Archives, Wilmington. Conference co-convened with Vanessa Schwartz and Jennifer Greenhill.
‘Work Forces: Mobilizing the Visual and Material Cultures of Labor,’ Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Workshop co-convened with Barbara McCloskey.
2018
‘Mining Value: Art and the Extraction of Resources,’ Power Institute for Art and Visual Culture, Sydney. Conference co-convened with Maggie Cao, Sophie Cras and Mark Ledbury.
‘Making Advances: Sex, Gender and the Politics of Images,’ Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Workshop co-convened with Kate Joranson.
2017
‘Border Control: On the Edges of American Art,’ Tate Liverpool. Conference co-convened with Julia Tatiana Bailey.
‘Consuming Nature: Landscapes through the lens of the Anthropocene,’ Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Workshop co-convened with Isabelle Chartier.
2016
‘Special Relationships: American Artists and their Collaborators,’ Tate. Workshop co-convened with Matthew Holman.
2015
‘Crash and Burn: Destruction in American Art,’ Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Conference co-convened with Helene Valance.
‘Marshalling American Art: Exhibiting Ideology in the Cold War,’ Tate. Workshop co-convened with Julia Tatiana Bailey.
‘American Art in Unlikely Places: Exhibitions beyond the Transatlantic Axis,’ College Art Association Conference, Panel convenor and chair.