Kate Taylor
Area of Expertise
Visual Art Critic and Cultural ColumnistKate Taylor is the visual art critic at The Globe and Mail. She also writes about film and cultural policy. A four-time National Newspaper Award finalist, she won an NNA in 2021 for features about the visual arts, and in 2015 for an investigative project about donations to the Royal Ontario Museum. In 2009-2010, she was awarded the Atkinson Fellowship in public policy journalism to study Canadian cultural sovereignty in the digital age. Her 2003 novel, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book (Canada/Caribbean region) and the Toronto Book Award. Her second novel, A Man in Uniform, was published in 2010, and her third, Serial Monogamy, in 2016.
Why did you become a journalist?
I believe the arts are central to the health of society and as deserving of thorough reporting and informed criticism as politics or economics.
38
Years in Journalism
34
Years at The Globe and Mail
Education
Master of Arts, Journalism, Western University
Bachelor of Arts, History and Art History, University of Toronto
Honours & Awards
NNA --2021; NNA --2015; NNA nomination -- 2000, 2014; Atkinson Fellowship 2009-2010
Professional affliations
Toronto Film Critics Association
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