How did i know this person..............
I met Marsha in the 1990s by chance hanging in new York new York in Soho. Hanging around my Gallery Cavin-Morris which used to back in those days be located at Broadway and prince st. I cant remember where i met her, yes I do. It was at the Marie
Marsha and me became fast friends. More like teacher and student, but she never mentioned art. We talked about our kids and life, i learned a bit about art. During this transforming but brief time that i knew Marsha.
She was one of my early Mentors in New York city. My daughter and hers were the same age and got along well. In fact the last time my daughter spent the night at Marsha house LIza was working on a beaded kitchen.
These were my early days in New York, 1990. Marsha
put me in her show "A labor of love" and i was honored.
She was one of the smartest funniest and nicest people i ever met. And we hung out for a time, Noodle shops on spring, st. Cool times to be a artist.
These were Andrea Serrano times, Kiki smith times, Nari ward.........cool times.........
I miss you Marsha
She was a friend read at end of book .
They just wrote a book about her, run out and get it
Book Description
A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World (Hardcover)
by Marcia Tucker (Author), Liza Lou (Editor)
"A Short Life Of Trouble—gossipy and delicious, smart and often deeply moving—takes us through Marcia Tucker's tough but fascinating days as a young, adventurous curator at the Whitney Museum to her ambivalent triumphs and constant challenges as the visionary founder of the New Museum, and beyond. The author emerges as a fierce, outspoken champion of contemporary artists, especially the risk-takers who are often marginalized and overlooked or not an easy sell. Her intelligence, passion, immense generosity of spirit, and wry, witty observations on the battles and machinations of the New York art world of the 1980s and 1990s are alive on every page. Although in her quest to live a just, meaningful existence she was often hardest on herself, Marcia Tucker clearly knew how to have fun and made every minute count. This poignant memoir lets us glimpse the all-too-brief but rich and remarkable life of an extraordinary human being."—Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dream Jungle
Description
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.
About The Author
Marcia Tucker, who died in 2006, was a curator of contemporary art and the founder and director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Liza Lou is an artist.
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