Overview

• The New York Times reported her death at age 87 on Friday, and no cause was given.
• She led the Museum of Modern Art as president from 1991 to 2002 and remained president emerita and a life trustee.
• She helped finance MoMA’s $858 million Yoshio Taniguchi expansion that opened in 2004.
• She was instrumental in bringing PS1 under MoMA in 1999, and the MoMA PS1 directorship now bears her name under director Connie Butler.
• She founded Studio in a School and directed about $100 million from the $165 million sale of Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece to launch the Art for Justice Fund, with museums including MoMA and the Cleveland Museum of Art set to receive additional works from her collection.