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Curator Talk with MoMA: Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern

Best known for cofounding New York City Ballet, Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996), a writer, curator, editor, impresario, tastemaker, and patron, was also a key figure in the early history of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

On view at MoMA until June 15, 2019, Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern explores this polymathic figure’s sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ’40s. With his prescient belief in the role of dance within the museum, his championing of figuration in the face of prevailing abstraction, and his position at the center of a New York network of queer artists, intimates, and collaborators, the impact of this extraordinary individual remains profoundly resonant today.











When: Wed., Jun. 12, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $29
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Best known for cofounding New York City Ballet, Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996), a writer, curator, editor, impresario, tastemaker, and patron, was also a key figure in the early history of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

On view at MoMA until June 15, 2019, Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern explores this polymathic figure’s sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ’40s. With his prescient belief in the role of dance within the museum, his championing of figuration in the face of prevailing abstraction, and his position at the center of a New York network of queer artists, intimates, and collaborators, the impact of this extraordinary individual remains profoundly resonant today.

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