Wykład gościnny Dr Jeffrey Taylor

New York Abstract Expressionism and Its Recurring Problem with Forgery

This lecture looks at a number of recent forgery cases that have afflicted the art market in one of its most high-value sectors: The New York School or Abstract Expressionism. It is not one case, but numerous cases that all seem to involve the leading artists of the movement that signalled the emergence of New York City as the global art center. We will consider these recent cases and the problems they exposed in the art world’s systems of knowledge.

Biography:

Jeffrey Taylor is a professor at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania. He initially joined them as a US Fulbright Scholar. He also teaches at the Kaunas Academy of Art at Kaunas College, and before he taught at Western Colorado University and State University of New York. His PhD is from the Central European University, where he wrote his dissertation on the history of the Hungarian art market, which was also his first book. He has been a Leon Levy Fellow at the Frick Art Reference Library/Frick Collection, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research: ArtWorks grant to study the US Art Market. Dr. Taylor most recently published The Art Business: Art World, Art Market with Routledge in 2023 for their Discovering the Creative Industries series, and this year it was published in Chinese by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press. His professional practice with New York Art Forensics leads him to publish and comment on issues of art forgery and authenticity. His press appearances include: The Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, CNBC, Wired, and the Netflix documentary Made You Look.