Kirk Varnedoe [SEP] cause of death
most notable lecture series were the Slade Lectures at Oxford and the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Varnedoe left MoMA in 2001. His departure came, according to his wife and to Adam Gopnik, after a period of difficult relations with the museum's new director, Glenn Lowry. He then became a scholar-in-residence at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies until his death two years later.
Kirk Varnedoe died of cancer in 2003 at the age of fifty-seven. Adam
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- 1948 in art – Birth of Eric Fischl, Hollis Sigler, Death of Arshile Gorky, George Ault
- 1947 in art – Birth of Ronnie Landfield, Death of Pierre Bonnard, Peggy Guggenheim closes "The Art of This Century gallery"
- 1946 in art – Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, Death of Arthur Dove
- 1945 in art – Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato
- 1944 in art – Birth of Odd Nerdrum, death of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian