Glenn D. Lowry, director of MOMA, while opening MOMA Queens in June 2002

Glenn D. Lowry is the current Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. He became the sixth director of the Museum in 1995 and heads a staff of around 750 people. His major initiatives in the past 14 years include guiding MoMA’s $900 million capital campaign for the renovation, expansion, and endowment of the Museum, and strengthening MoMA’s contemporary art program.

Born in 1954 in New York City and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Lowry received a B.A. degree (1976) magna cum laude from Williams College, Williamstown, and M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees in the history of art from Harvard University.

A strong advocate of contemporary art, he, along with Alanna Heiss, former director of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, conceived and initiated the merger of their two organizations, which was announced in February 1999. He has lectured and written extensively in support of contemporary art and artists and the role of museums in society, among other topics.

Lowry is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and of the Donald Judd Foundation. He is a member of the Williams College Board of Trustees, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the advisory council of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He is also a Steering Committee Member for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. In 2004, the French government honored Mr. Lowry with the title of Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

A noted scholar of Islamic arts and architecture, Lowry was previously Director of the Art Gallery of Ontario (1990-95), and Curator of Near Eastern Art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art (1984-90). ^[1]

[edit] Publications

The Museum of Modern Art in This Century. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. 2009.

Designing the New Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. 2004.

MOMA Highlights: 325 Works from The Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. 2002.

with Michael Brand, eds., Fatehpur-Sikri: A Sourcebook. Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1985.

"Time Magazine:" November 1989, Pg. 36. "Hello World."

[edit] See also

• List of Williams College people
• Muscarelle Museum of Art
• Museum of Modern Art

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• MoMA website
• Time Out New York, 2008: Q&A: Glenn Lowry, MoMA Director
• The Rockefeller University News
• New York Magazine, 2007: It's Good to be the MoMA Director
• New York Times, 2007: Donors Sweetened Director's Pay At MoMA, Prompting Questions