Thalia Vrachopoulos is Assistant Professor of Art History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She received her doctorate in 20th Century Art from the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her dissertation was on Jean Xceron, the American Modernist abstract artist. She has published articles in numerous art journals and has curated and written catalogues to over twenty exhibitions. She is presently co-authoring a book on Hilla Rebay, the founder of the Guggenheim Museum of Art.

e-mail: thaliav@juno.com