Written by Ingrid Abramovitch
With an apartment in New York’s Museum Tower, Glenn D. Lowry, director of the adjacent Museum of Modern Art, doesn’t literally live above the shop—but just about. “I have a 400-foot commute,” he says. “I love it.” If he burns few calories getting to work, he more than compensates with his spare-time pursuits: This former bike and ski racer still engages in both sports with vigor. Married since the age of 19 to his wife, Susan, a Montreal-born landscape architect, Lowry was enrolled as a pre-med student when he took a freshman course in Islamic and Indian art at Williams College. “The first slide went up, and I never looked back,” says Lowry, who became a scholar of Islamic art before assuming leadership of the Art Gallery of Ontario and then MoMA. “This is an utterly thrilling, enjoyable, engaging job,” he says of his role as head of one of the world’s most beloved art institutions. “It tests all of your skills, all of the time.”
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