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Kynaston McShine was the acting Chief Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. In the mid 1960s, as curator at the Jewish Museum, he organized the first museum survey of minimalist art, Primary Structures. At the Museum of Modern Art, where he became associate curator in 1968, he initiated the innovative Projects series and has organized some of the museum’s most important exhibitions, including the early survey of conceptual art, Information (1970); exhibitions of Marcel Duchamp (1973), Joseph Cornell (1980), and Andy Warhol (1989); The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect (1999); Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul (2006); Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years (2007).