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Marcia Tucker

Posted by Michelle Kasprzak • Thursday, October 19. 2006 • Category: News
“Act first, think later — that way you have something to think about.”
Marcia Tucker, curator and founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Marcia Tucker, a forceful curator who responded to being fired from the Whitney Museum of American Art by founding the New Museum of Contemporary Art, died on October 17 at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 66.



Read the full obituary here, and a report from the memorial service
here.





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