The Excavator: “De Kooning” Curator John Elderfield on Lost Themes, the Misunderstood Late Work, and the Pleasures of Google - “The Museum of Modern Art’s “de Kooning: A Retrospective” is a mammoth rethinking of Willem de Kooning oeuvre and career, and as such is the latest master class in curation by John Elderfield, the museum’s chief curator emeritus of sculpture and painting.”