Marcia Tucker
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Marcia Tucker
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| Born |
April 11, 1940 Brooklyn, New York, US |
| Died | October 17, 2006 (aged 66) Santa Barbara, California, US |
| Other names | Marcia Silverman |
| Occupation | Curator and Art Historian |
Marcia Tucker (born Marcia Silverman; April 11, 1940 – October 17, 2006) was an American art historian, art critic and curator. In 1977 she founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum dedicated to innovative art and artistic practice in New York City, which she ran as the director until 1999.
Marcia Tucker was born on April 11, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1961 she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College, where she studied theatre and art. Tucker spent her junior year studying at the École du Louvre, in Paris. Her first job was as a secretary of the Museum of Modern Art; however, she soon quit after being asked to sharpen too many pencils.
In 1969, Tucker became the Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She held this position until 1977 and she organized major exhibitions of the work of Bruce Nauman, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Richard Tuttle, and Jack Tworkov among others. In 1975, Tucker organized a Richard Tuttle exhibition; however, the show was trounced by critics, leading to her dismissal. On January 1, 1977, at the age of 37, Tucker founded The New Museum. Tucker wanted the New Museum to exhibit living artists, to have knowledgeable guards, and to throw out its permanent collection of art every ten years to remain young. At the New Museum, Tucker organized major exhibitions including Bad Painting (1978), The Time of Our Lives (1999), A Labor of Love (1996), and Bad Girls (1994), and was co-curator of a retrospective exhibition by the Catalan artist Perejaume at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona in 1999. She was the series editor of Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, five books of theory and criticism published by the New Museum. In 1983, she was chosen as the U.S. Commissioner for the 1984 41st Venice Biennale. Tucker's exhibition was entitled Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained and was organized with Ned Rifkin and Lynn Gumpert. The exhibition included twenty-four American artists, including Eric Fischl, David True, and Richard Bosman.
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