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Kurt Varnedoe, Modern Art's Athletic Mind
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The Washington Post
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August 15, 2003| Author:
Blake Gopnik
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Kirk Varnedoe, who died Wednesday night at age 57 after a long
fight with cancer, was a forceful guy. Though he was an important
historian of modern art from early on, and went on to public
prominence as the top curator at the Museum of Modern Art, he never
had much of the delicate aesthete about him. Over the dozen or so
times I met Kirk -- he was one of my brother Adam's closest friends
and a close collaborator -- traces of his early love of college rugby
always seemed to linger. (At the ...
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