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ID: 500282292
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500282292

 

Record Type: Person
McShine, Kynaston (American curator, 1935-2018)

Note: In 1965, McShine became the curator of painting and sculpture at the Jewish Museum. In 1967, McShine was named acting director there, but left a year later to work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as associate curator. While at MoMA, McShine served as curator of exhibitions (1971–84), senior curator (1984–2001), acting chief curator (2001–03), and chief curator at large (2003–08). He initiated MoMA’s Elaine Dannheisser Projects series in 1971, which focused on presenting experimental works by emerging artists and on giving younger curators opportunities to organize exhibitions.

Names:
McShine, Kynaston (preferred,V,index)
Kynaston McShine (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Trinidadian

Roles:
curator (preferred)

Gender: male

Events:
active:   New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  McShine, Kynaston (I,U)

Biographies:
(American curator, 1935-2018) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American museum, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Kynaston McShine ........ [AVERY, VP]
...................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
McShine, Kynaston ........ [AVERY Preferred, VP]
.....................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
.....................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 50007902

Subject: ........ [AVERY, VP]
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... Artforum [online] (2004-) obit.
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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