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- Aug. 29, 1994: Died:Henry Geldzahler
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Aug. 29, 1994 Nuclear Terror for Sale
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 25
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- <p> DIED. HENRY GELDZAHLER, 59, art curator and critic; of cancer;
- in Southampton, New York. The wry voice of experience was speaking
- in 1977 when Geldzahler explained why he was leaving his post
- at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a job in government as
- New York City's culture czar: "I thought it was about time I
- got out of politics." As a curator of American art for the previous
- 17 years, Geldzahler was in the thick of the culture wars, backing
- such trends as Pop, Op, Conceptual and Minimalist art. The massive
- exhibit he curated in 1969 for the Met, "New York Painting and
- Sculpture: 1940-1970," was as much a powerful manifesto as art
- show. Geldzahler was the subject of works by some of the artists
- he championed, including a David Hockney portrait.
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