THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
New York, New York
Founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker in order to create a space that would focues attention on younger artists who were not being given serious consideration by the major museums in New York. To create an "exhibition, information, and documentation center for contemporary art - focusing on living artists and the work they make - work that does not yet have wide public exposure or critical acceptance."
Marcia Tucker had been the Curator for the Whitney Museum from 1969 [when she co-curated the exhibition Anti-Illusion with James Monte] to 1977 when she left in part due to the unsupportive institutional reaction to the Richard Tuttle exhibition she had organized in 1975.
The New Museum, before moving into it's first exhibition space at 65 6th Avenue - a rent-free space in the Graduate Center of the New School for Social Research, raised funds and created exhibitions that were presented in other established spaces [see catalogues below: "Memory", and "New Work: New York"]. In 1983 The New Museum moved to 583 Broadway in SoHo where they remained until 2004 at which time they moved into temporary space at 556 West 22nd Street in Chelesa. The New Museum will move into their new home new building is completed at 235 Bowery.
Lisa Phillips, like Tucker, a former curator at the Whitney, became the Director of The New Museum of Contemporary Art when Marcia Tucker stepped down in 1999. Marcia Tucker died in 2006 at the age of 66 [obituary, Art in America, December, 2006].
| CATALOGUES - Also See Below: CATALOGUES BY YEAR | ||
| Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975 [alternative galleries: Gain Ground / Apple / 98 Greene Street / 112 Green Street Workshop / 10 Bleecher Street / Idea Workshop / 3 Mercer] | Jacki Apple (with essay by Mary Delahoyd) | 1981 |
| Art and Ideology | Benjamin Buchloh, Donald Kuspit, Lucy Lippard, Nilda Peraza, and Lowery Sims | 1984 |
| Bad Girls [curator: Marcia Tucker] | Marcia Tucker | 1994 |
| Barry Le Va: Four Consecutive Installations & Drawings 1967-1978 | Marcia Tucker | 1978 |
| Cadences: Icon and Abstraction in Context | Gary Sangster | 1991 |
| Carolee Schneemann: Up To And Including Her Limits | Dan Cameron | 1996 |
| Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object | Brian Wallis | 1986 |
| Deconstruction / Reconstruction: The Transformation of Photographic Information into Metephor | Shelley Rice | 1980 |
| Difference On Representation and Sexuality | Kate Linker and Jane Weinstock | 1984 |
| Early Work: Benglis, Brown, Jimenez, Stephan, Weiner | Lynn Gumpert, Ned Rifkin and Marcia Tucker | 1982 |
| Early Works by Five Contemporary Artists: Gorchov / Murray / Oppenheim / Rockburne / Shapiro [first exhibition to be held at The New Museum's initial location at 65 5th Avenue] | Marcia Tucker | 1977 |
| East Village U.S.A. | Dan Cameron, Liza Kirwin and Alan W. Moore | 2004 |
| Events: En Foco [includes: Juan Sanchez] / Heresies Collective | Charles Biasiny-Rivera | 1983 |
| Events: Fashion Moda / Taller Boricua / Artists Invite Artists [first of a series of exhibitions - "Events" - organized by outside groups and artists] - Discussed in: Thinking About Exhibitions, 1996 | Galleries and Artists / Marcia Tucker and Lynn Gumpert | 1980 |
| Fake | William Olander | 1987 |
| Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz | Dan Cameron | 1999 |
| Fiona Tan: Correction [originated at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago] | Francesco Bonami and Julie Rodrigues Widholm | 2004 |
| Four Artists: Drawings [held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan - 3rd exhibition organized by The New Museum] | Michiko Miyamoto | 1977 |
| From Receiver to Remote Control: The TV Set | Matthew Geller | 1990 |
| Golub | Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin | 1984 |
| Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business | Brian Wallis | 1986 |
| Jana Sterbak [small catalogue] | Bruce W. Ferguson | 1990 |
| John Baldessari | Marcia Tucker | 1981 |
| Living Inside the Grid [including Monica Bonvicini, and Douglas Blau, among others] | Dan Cameron | 2003 |
| Markus Raetz: In the Realm of the Possible | Marcia Tucker | 1988 |
| Mary Kelly: Interim | Marcia Tucker | 1990 |
| Memory [1st exhibition organized by The New Museum and held at C Space, New York] | Marcia Tucker | 1977 |
| New Work / New York [held at the Gallery of July and August, Woodstock, New York] | Marcia Tucker | 1977 |
| Persona | Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin | 1981 |
| Rhethorical Image | Milena Kalinovska | 1991 |
| Signs | Ned Rifkin | 1985 |
| Slots Art | Margarita Tupitsyn | 1986 |
| Stay Tuned | Ned Rifkin | 1981 |
| Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos | Laura Trippi | 1989 |
| Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong | Marcia Tucker / Dan Cameron / Barry Blinderman / Yasmin Ramirez / Lydia Yee / Carlo McCormick | 1998 |
| The Art of Memory The Loss of History | William Olander | 1986 |
| The Big Nothing or le Presque Rien | Keri Scharin | 1992 |
| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 80s [with The Studio Museum of Harlem / the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art] | ulia Herzberg (MOCHA), Sharon Patton (SMH), Gary Sangster, and Laura Trippi (TNM) | 1990 |
| The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse | Lynn Gumpert | 1983 |
| The Interrupted Life | France Morin | 1991 |
| the Time of Our Lives | Marcia Tucker | 1999 |
| Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection | Brian Goldfarb | 1995 |
| Tenth Anniversary 1977-1987 | Marcia Tucker | 1987 |
| William Kentridge | Dan Cameron, Staci Boris and Neal Benezra | 2001 |
| GALLERY BROCHURES FOR: | ||
| Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001 | Erin barnett and Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo0 | |
| Jacqueline Fraser: A Portrait of the Lost Boys | Anne Barlow [Curaotr of Education and Media Programs] | 2002 |
| Tom Friedman | Dan Cameron [Senior Curator] | 2002 |
| William Kentridge | Dan Cameron, Staci Boris and Neal Benezra | |
| Cildo Merieles | Dan Cameron [Senior Curator] | 2000 |
| Helio Oiticica: Quasi-Cinemas | Johanna Burton [curatorial fellow] | 2002 |
| Adrian Piper | Anne Ellegood [Assistant Curator] | 2001 |
| Fiona Tan: Correction | Julie Rodrigues Widholm [Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 2005 |
| Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz | Dan Cameron [Senior Curator] | 1999 |
| Out of Site | Anne Ellegood [Assistant Curator] | 2002 |
| PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation | Brian Wallis and Marcia Tucker, editors | 1984 |
| Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists | Brian Wallis, editor | 1987 |
| Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture | Russell Ferguson, William Olander, Marcia Tucker and Karen Fiss, editors | 1990 |
| Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures [Photographic images selected by Felix Gonzalez-Torres] |
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1990 |
| Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture | Gerardo Mosquera and Jean Fisher [artist project by Francis Alys] | 2004 |
| DISCUSSED IN: | ||
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture | University of California Press | 1992 |
| Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture | The New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press | 2004 |
| SoHo: The Essential Guide to Art and Life in Lower Manhattan | Simon and Schuster | 1979 |
| SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony | Routledge | 2003 |
| Thinking About Exhibitions | Routledge | 1996 |
| CATALOGUES BY YEAR | ||
| Memory [1st exhibition organized by The New Museum and held at C Space, New York] | Marcia Tucker | 1977 |
| New Work / New York [held at the Gallery of July and August, Woodstock, New York] | Marcia Tucker | 1977 |
| Four Artists: Drawings [held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan - 3rd exhibition organized by The New Museum] | Michiko Miyamoto | 1977 |
| Early Works by Five Contemporary Artists: Gorchov / Murray / Oppenheim / Rockburne / Shapiro [first exhibition to be held at The New Museum's initial location at 65 5th Avenue] | Marcia Tucker | 1977 |
| Barry Le Va: Four Consecutive Installations & Drawings 1967-1978 | Marcia Tucker | 1978 |
| Deconstruction / Reconstruction: The Transformation of Photographic Information into Metephor | Shelley Rice | 1980 |
| Events: Fashion Moda / Taller Boricua / Artists Invite Artists [first of a series of exhibitions - "Events" - organized by outside groups and artists] - Discussed in: Thinking About Exhibitions, 1996 | Galleries and Artists / Marcia Tucker and Lynn Gumpert | 1980 |
| Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975 [alternative galleries: Gain Ground / Apple / 98 Greene Street / 112 Green Street Workshop / 10 Bleecher Street / Idea Workshop / 3 Mercer] | Jacki Apple (with essay by Mary Delahoyd) | 1981 |
| John Baldessari | Marcia Tucker | 1981 |
| Persona | Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin | 1981 |
| Stay Tuned | Ned Rifkin | 1981 |
| Early Work: Benglis, Brown, Jimenez, Stephan, Weiner | Lynn Gumpert, Ned Rifkin and Marcia Tucker | 1982 |
| Events: En Foco / Heresies Collective | Charles Biasiny-Rivera | 1983 |
| The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse | Lynn Gumpert | 1983 |
| Art and Ideology | Benjamin Buchloh, Donald Kuspit, Lucy Lippard, Nilda Peraza, and Lowery Sims | 1984 |
| Difference On Representation and Sexuality | Kate Linker and Jane Weinstock | 1984 |
| Golub | Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin | 1984 |
| Signs | Ned Rifkin | 1985 |
| Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object | Brian Wallis | 1986 |
| Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business | Brian Wallis | 1986 |
| Slots Art | Margarita Tupitsyn | 1986 |
| The Art of Memory The Loss of History | William Olander | 1986 |
| Fake | William Olander | 1987 |
| Tenth Anniversary 1977-1987 | Marcia Tucker | 1987 |
| Markus Raetz: In the Realm of the Possible | Marcia Tucker | 1988 |
| Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos | Laura Trippi | 1989 |
| From Receiver to Remote Control: The TV Set | Matthew Geller | 1990 |
| Jana Sterbak [small catalogue] | Bruce W. Ferguson | 1990 |
| Mary Kelly: Interim | Marcia Tucker | 1990 |
| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 80s [with The Studio Museum of Harlem / the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art] | ulia Herzberg (MOCHA), Sharon Patton (SMH), Gary Sangster, and Laura Trippi (TNM) | 1990 |
| Cadences: Icon and Abstraction in Context | Gary Sangster | 1991 |
| Rhethorical Image | Milena Kalinovska | 1991 |
| The Interrupted Life | France Morin | 1991 |
| The Big Nothing or le Presque Rien | Keri Scharin | 1992 |
| Bad Girls [curator: Marcia Tucker] | Marcia Tucker | 1994 |
| Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection | Brian Goldfarb | 1995 |
| Carolee Schneemann: Up To And Including Her Limits | Dan Cameron | 1996 |
| Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong | Marcia Tucker / Dan Cameron / Barry Blinderman / Yasmin Ramirez / Lydia Yee / Carlo McCormick | 1998 |
| Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz | Dan Cameron | 1999 |
| the Time of Our Lives | Marcia Tucker | 1999 |
| William Kentridge | Dan Cameron, Staci Boris and Neal Benezra | 2001 |
| Living Inside the Grid [including Monica Bonvicini, and Douglas Blau, among others] | Dan Cameron | 2003 |
| East Village U.S.A. | Dan Cameron, Liza Kirwin and Alan W. Moore | 2004 |
| Fiona Tan: Correction [originated at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago] | Francesco Bonami and Julie Rodrigues Widholm | 2004 |