Marcia Tucker

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Marcia Tucker, self-portrait

Marcia Tucker (born April 11, 1940 in Brooklyn , New York City , † October 17, 2006 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American art historian , art critic , curator and museum director at the Whitney Museum of American Art .

Career

Marcia Tucker (nee Silverman) was born to a lawyer in New York and grew up in Bensonhurst and New Jersey . She studied drama and arts at Connecticut College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1961 . She obtained her Masters in 1969 from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . Marcia Tucker was married several times, most recently to Dean S. McNeil, Jr., with whom she has a daughter.

Tucker began her career as a secretary in the Museum of Modern Art and in 1969 Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. By 1977, she organized in this position exhibitions of Bruce Nauman , Lee Krasner , Joan Mitchell , Richard Tuttle , Jack Tworkov and other.

In 1977 Tucker founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art and directed it until 1999. She organized solo exhibitions for the artists Joan Jonas (1984), Martin Puryear (1984), Leon Golub (1984), Linda Montano (1984), Allen Ruppersberg (1985) , Kim Jones (1986), Hans Haacke (1987), Bruce Nauman (1987), Christian Boltanski (1988), Ana Mendieta (1988), Nancy Spero (1989), Mary Kelly (1990), Carolee Schneemann (1996), Mona Hatoum (1998), Doris Salcedo (1998) and Xu Bing (1998).

In 1984 Tucker curated the American pavilion for the 41st Venice Biennale .

She worked as a freelance writer from 1999 to 2006. Tucker wrote for the New York Times , The Christian Science Monitor , Art in America , Artforum, and Art news . She has taught at Cornell University , Colgate University, and Bard College .

In 2004 she moved with her family to Santa Barbara and died there in 2006.

literature

  • A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World , Liza Lou and Marcia Tucker, Univ. of California Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-52026-5-950

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The New York Times, Roberta Smith , October 19, 2006 Marcia Tucker, 66, Founder of a Radical Art Museum, this accessed on July 12, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ Los Angeles Times Marcia Tucker, 66; curator championed emerging artists accessed on July 12, 2015
  3. ↑ New Museum history accessed on July 12, 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ The New York Times, Michael Brenson art people accessed on July 12, 2015 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Tucker, Marcia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silverman, Marcia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian, art critic, curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2006
Place of death Santa Barbara California