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 or around 600 people. This article is about the museum in New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

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. Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...

A strong advocate of contemporary art, he, along with Alanna Heiss, 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. Founded in 1971, the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is one of the largest and oldest museums in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. ...

Lowry is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and of the Donald Judd Foundation. He also serves on the advisory council of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Untitled (Core Piece), 1969 Untitled sculpture from 1990 Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994) was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed) whose work sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States and a member of the prestigious Ivy League. ...

Publications

• Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World.

See also

• Museum of Modern Art
• List of Williams College people

This article is about the museum in New York City. ... Because of a history dating back to 1793 and a consistent reputation as an elite institution of higher learning, there is a long List of Williams College people - students who attended the school and achieved notability in a wide variety of fields. ...

External links

• MoMA website
• 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