This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Tucker came of age in the 1960s, and this spirited account of her life draws the reader directly into the burgeoning feminist movement and the excitement of the New York art world during that time. Her own new ways of thinking led her to take principled stands that have changed the ...
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This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Tucker came of age in the 1960s, and this spirited account of her life draws the reader directly into the burgeoning feminist movement and the excitement of the New York art world during that time. Her own new ways of thinking led her to take principled stands that have changed the way art museums consider contemporary art. As curator of painting and sculpture at the Whitney, she organized major exhibitions of the work of Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Tuttle, among others. As founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, she organized and curated groundbreaking exhibitions that often focused on the nexus of art and politics. The book highlights Tucker's commitment to forging a new system when the prevailing one proved too narrow for her expansive vision.
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Marcia Tucker was one of the first women curators at the Whitney Museum, and when she was fired from that job, went on to found the New Museum. She curated a lot of important exhibits which led to new awareness for artists and trends that had hitherto been mostly underground before she brought them into the museum. But what makes this book so good is that Tucker is a casual, entertaining story-teller, and she gets into the nitty gritty details (how, exactly, do you start a museum, for example--this book explains it in detail). She died before she could finish the memoir--it probably could have used one more draft and some editing. But in the end, it's a highly informative and totally entertaining read about a key figure in U.S. art in the 70s and 80s.
