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10, 2001 Curator, director Marcia Tucker will speak on Monday, April 23 Internationally recognized curator and museum director Marcia Tucker will present a public lecture on Monday, April 23, at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, located on Caraway Road, at Arkansas State University. Her lecture, "The Good, the Bad, the Irrelevant, and the Totally Unacceptable: A Critical View of Contemporary Art, Audiences, and Museums," is co-sponsored by the Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the ASU Lecture-Concert Series. Tucker, the founding director, served as director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City from 1977 to 1999. The museum’s mission was to advance innovative art and artistic practice as a vital social force. She organized such major exhibitions as The Time of Our Lives (1999); A Labor of Love (1996); Bad Girls (1994); and Choices: Making an Art of Everyday Life (1986) for the museum, and served as co-curator of a retrospective exhibition by the Catalan artist Perejaume at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (Spain) in 1999. Tucker is the series editor of "Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art," five books of theory and criticism published by the New Museum. Prior to founding the museum, Tucker was curator of painting and sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1969 to 1977. The recipient of the Bard College Award for Curatorial Achievement in 1999, she also received the Art Table Award for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts in 2000. She has taught, written, lectured and published throughout the United States and abroad. "Contemporary art museums have become nearly synonymous with pitched battles over the nature, value and financing of art," Tucker said in an article in the New York Times. "Controversy is endemic to them because sparking disagreement and debate is exactly what the art of our own time does best and most valuably; it encourages independent thinking. When it comes to contemporary art, most people have fairly rigid notions of what it should look like and how it should behave, and when art gets fed up with the rules and runs away from home, everyone races to call the police. They don't trust or value their own reactions when these differ from what they've come to expect." The lecture is admission-free to the public. For more information, contact the Department of Art at 972-3050. |
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