Rebecca Taylor FRSA is a cultural strategist, educator, and writer, with more than two decades of experience in the arts & culture sector, including leadership roles at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA); The Getty; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); and beyond.
Rebecca utilizes her extensive experience to advise clients — including museums, galleries, art fairs and luxury brands — on major strategic issues facing their organisations during these challenging times. Utilizing her deep understanding and expertise, Rebecca audits brands (internally and externally) and develops bespoke solutions to address their specific challenges, as well as strategic recommendations and holistic strategies for achieving their short and long-term objectives efficiently and effectively.
Prior to launching her own consultancy, Rebecca worked as EVP of FITZ & CO. In that capacity, she advised on the global strategy and direction of major initiatives and spearheaded international campaigns for its global roster of clients, including Alserkal (Dubai); ARoS Museum (Denmark); Art Basel (Basel | Hong Kong | Miami Beach); ART021 (Shanghai); BMW Group Culture; Fondation Beyeler; Faurschou Foundation (Beijing | Copenhagen | NYC); Saudi Art Council; Sharjah Art Foundation; and Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.), among others.
In addition to her consultancy, Rebecca is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts; Faculty Lecturer in the ‘Contemporary Art Business Program’ at Christie’s and has been a featured speaker at international conferences in Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, Mexico City, New York, Seoul and beyond. Rebecca also taught contemporary art history at UCLA extension, and was a contributing writer to Khan Academy’s SmartHistory (Contemporary Art) and the Huffington Post (Arts) when each platform was launching.
Rebecca is currently developing a new pedagogical framework which engages aesthetic experience in the service of Human Flourishing as part of her doctoral studies in ‘Art and Art Education’ at Teachers College, Columbia University. She’s also a member of the Technical Working Group for the National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab on Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being, which is a collaboration between the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Academic Publications
Taylor, R., & Ball, J. (2022). Re-presencing Through Artistic Reverie: Implications for Postdigital Theology. In Postdigital Theologies (pp. 233-248). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-09405-7
Additional Writings
Taylor, R. (2022). You are what you see. Recalibrating (or as I prefer to call it, re-presencing) through art. aJAR, February 21. https://ajar.substack.com/p/you-are-what-you-see
Taylor, R. (2015). Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present. Smarthistory, August 9. https://smarthistory.org/marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present/.
Taylor, R. (2015). Anselm Kiefer, Shulamite. Smarthistory, August 9.
https://smarthistory.org/anselm-kiefer-shulamite/.
Taylor, R. (2010). Christian Marclay Conquers Times. The Huffington Post, 28 October.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-marclay-conquer_b_774451
Taylor, R. (2010). Spiral Jetty: A Monument to Paradox & Transience. The Huffington Post, 28 September. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spiral-jetty-a-monument-t_b_741301
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