Glenn D. Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, will remain in his post for another seven years, leading New York’s most significant institution of 20th- and 21st-century art through 2025, the New York Times reports. Mr. Lowry and the MoMA board have agreed to an extension that will make him the longest-serving director since the museum opened in 1929.
Image: Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, will stay on through 2025.CreditCreditRichard Perry/The New York Times
Glenn D. Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, will remain in his post for another seven years, leading New York’s most significant institution of 20th- and 21st-century art through 2025, the New York Times reports. Mr. Lowry and the MoMA board have agreed to an extension that will make him the longest-serving director since the museum opened in 1929.
Staff members at MoMA and its sister institution, PS1, learned of the agreement in an email from Leon Black, the chairman of MoMA’s board, and Ronnie Heyman, the board’s president. “This assures outstanding leadership through our transformative expansion and beyond,” they wrote to the museum’s 750 employees.
Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, will stay on through 2025.CreditCreditRichard Perry/The New York Times
While Mr. Lowry, 64, was already on board to pilot the museum through 2020, just past the opening of its expanded facility next fall, he may now remain in the director’s office until his early 70s.
The extension comes as a surprise, since MoMA had long had a policy that “chief curators and other senior managers” should retire at 65. In a 2014 interview with New York Times, Mr. Lowry said he planned to respect the rule. “We have a policy of senior staff at this institution retiring at or around 65, and I don’t intend to break that policy,” he said. “I’ll do my best between now and then.”
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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