Paul Taylor is best known for conducting the last interview with Andy Warhol. A regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Manhattan, inc., Fame, Connoisseur and Interview magazines as well as The New York Times, Flash Art and Parkett, he edited Anything Goes: Art in Australia 1970 - 1980 (1984) and Post-Pop Art (1989). Before taking up residence in New York City in 1984, he founded the Australian journal Art & Text in 1981 and curated the landmark "POPISM" exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1982. Among his other activities in New York he curated the exhibition "Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave" for The New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1988. He is described by famed New York gallerist Leo Castelli as writing "groundbreaking articles" and by Grey Art gallery director Thomas Sokolowski as "deflating the windbags and unmasking the succubi of the art world in the raucous 1980s." He was a frequent speaker at museum panel discussions and in 1986 was Australian Commissioner at the Biennale of Venice. Paul Taylor died of AIDS-related illness in Melbourne in 1992.

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