[1] She held this position until 1976 and she organized major exhibitions of the work of Bruce Nauman, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Richard Tuttle, and Jack Tworkov among others.

[5] Tucker wanted the New Museum to exhibit living artists, to have knowledgeable guards, and to throw out its permanent collection of art every ten years to remain young.

She was the series editor ofDocumentary Sources in Contemporary Art, five books of theory and criticism published by the New Museum.

Her memoir, A Short Life of Trouble, which describes a vital period in American art from the mid-1960s on, including friendships and encounters with such artists as Marcel Duchamp, James Rosenquist, Lee Krasner, Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell, and Bruce Nauman, was released in 2008.

[3] In 1979 she founded the a cappella vocal ensemble, The Art Mob, in order to, as she said, sing in a group that couldn't throw her out.

The Art Mob performs "outdated and unfashionable songs that we find by pawing through musty hymnals, tattered choral books and boxes of disintegrating sheet music."

Its repertoire includes Victorian parlor songs, shape-note hymns, Tin Pan Alley hits and misses, radio gospel, and jazz.