A CURATOR'S QUEST

The distinguished curator, critic, collector, art historian, and teacher William Rubin was a forceful presence for over two decades at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from the late 1960s through the 1980s. He was extraordinarily successful at acquiring for the col lection such monuments of modern art as Pollock's One: Number 31, 1950 and Picasso's 1914 sheet-metal Guitar. The exhibitions he mou nted as Chief Curator and later Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum--among them the unprecedented Pab lo Picass...[Read more]