Founder of New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art to Give Talk
December 16 , 2005
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA — Freelance art critic, writer and lecturer Marcia Tucker will give a reading from her memoir, “A Short Life of Trouble,” at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the first-floor jury space in the Stuckeman Family Building at the Penn State University Park campus. Her lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. The lecture is free to the public.
Tucker founded New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art, dedicated to innovative art and artistic practice, in 1977 and served as director until 1999. While there, she organized such major exhibitions as The Time of Our Lives (1999),A Labor of Love (1996) and Bad Girls (1994). Tucker was the series editor of Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, five books of theory and criticism published by the New Museum. Previously, she was curator of painting and sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1969 to 1977, where she organized major exhibitions of the work of Bruce Nauman, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and Richard Tuttle, among others.
In 1999, she was co-curator of a retrospective exhibition by the Catalan artist Perejaume at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. She was the 1999 recipient of the Bard College Award for Curatorial Achievement, and received the Art Table Award for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts in 2000. She has taught, lectured and published widely in America and abroad. From 1997 to 2001, Tucker also led a secret life as stand-up comic Mabel McNeil, whose alter-ego, "Miss Mannerist," dispensed art world advice for career-impaired artists, visually challenged curators and aspiring artists.
For more information on Marcia Tucker, visit http://www.marciatucker.com.
Contact: Sarah Schwartz, ses32@psu.edu