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  1. A conservation about the Museum of Modern Art
    A conservation about the Museum of Modern Art

    with Glenn Lowry and Yoshio Taniguchi on May 25, 2001

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Glenn Lowry is an art historian from the United States, and Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Among the major exhibitions that have taken place during Lowry’s tenure at MoMA are Mies in Berlin (2001), Andreas Gursky (2001), Workspheres (2001), Jackson Pollock (1998-99), Pierre Bonnard (1998), Aleksandr Rodchenko (1998), Chuck Close (1998), Jasper Johns (1996-1997), Picasso and Portraiture (1996), and Piet Mondrian (1995).

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) where he organised, among other exhibitions, Timur and Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century (1989) and A Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book From the Vever Collection (1988).

Lowry’s many honors include a doctorate of fine arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (2000), Chevalier d’Ordre de Merite (2001) and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres (2000) from the French government, and the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Award (1990).

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