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born curator and public speaker. His visions about contemporary art made lasting contributions to the lives of countless artists and colleagues at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City where he worked from 1959 to 2008. He is said to be the first curator of color at a major American museum and at
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In 1970, McShine curated an international survey of new conceptual art. The exhibition included 130 artists, filmmakers and collectives and was centered around the new influence of communication technologies and criticized the involvement of the US government in the war in Vietnam. The exhibit was
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He held the position of associate curator in MoMA's Department of Painting and Sculpture until 1971, after which he assumed the roles of Curator of Exhibitions from 1971 to 1984; Senior Curator, 1984–2001; Acting Chief Curator 2001-03, and Chief Curator at Large from 2003 until his retirement in
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Born Kynaston Leigh Gerard McShine to Leonora Pujadas and Austen Hutton McShine, Kynaston McShine was the elder of two children. Pujadas was president and founder of the League of Women Voters in Trinidad while his father was president of a bank.
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at MoMA. The exhibition purported to present the most notable recent work in contemporary art. Of 165 artists in the show, only 13 were women, spurring a group of women artists of the time to form
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as part of its fiftieth anniversary celebrations in 1979 was discarded by the museum sometime in the 1990s, a fact which was not disclosed to the artist until 2016.
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Juliff, Toby (2018). "A New Generation of British Art: A Problem of Provincialism". Sydney: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. p. 125-145.
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Juliff, Toby (2018). "A New Generation of British Art: A Problem of Provincialism". Sydney: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. p. 125-145.
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before the term "Minimalism" was used to describe their work. The groundbreaking show was restaged by the Jewish Museum in their 2014 exhibition
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series that focuses on small scale experimental work by emerging artists. The first exhibition in the series was work by artist
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from 1965-68, and served as acting director there from 1967-68. While there, he organized the first museum survey of
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his retirement he had risen to the position of chief curator at large of painting and sculpture.
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in 1959. After a brief period of employment, he continued his graduate studies at
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in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1958, McShine earned a bachelor of arts degree from
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After becoming associate curator at the MoMA in 1968, he initiated the
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Art, Politics, and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America
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series, devoted to emerging, experimental art. Exhibitions in the
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An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
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McShine was Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the
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Museum of Modern Art
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Jewish Museum
Minimalist art
Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors
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Joseph Cornell
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Richard Serra
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