Glenn Lowry

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Glenn David Lowry (New York, 1954) is an american art historian and sixth director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1995. His initiatives there include strengthening MoMA's contemporary art program and guiding a $900 million capital campaign for the renovation, expansion, and endowment of the Museum. He has lectured and written extensively in support of contemporary art and artists and the role of museums in society, among other topics. Lowry began his career in 1983 as the first director of the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary; he later became curator of Near Eastern Art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art (1984–90). He was director of the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.