Glenn Lowry grew up in Williamstown, graduated from Williams in 1976, and earned a Ph.D. in art history at Harvard. While a curator at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington he oversaw the acquisition of a heralded collection of Persian and Indian painting and produced two catalogs on it. He directed the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1990 until moving to New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1995, where his major initiatives have included the design, building, and funding of the museum’s new building. When it opened last year, it was praised as a spectacular new home for one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art. And the public has lined up at its door ever since. A strong advocate of contemporary art, he also helped conceive and initiate MoMA’s merger with P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.
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