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MoMA’s Choice for Its Next Director Is Solid But Not Inspiring

MoMA’s Choice for Its Next Director Is Solid But Not Inspiring

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I was on a gallery crawl downtown when news broke that New York’s Museum of Modern Art had chosen Christophe Cherix as its next director, arguably the most coveted position in the upper echelons of the international art world. That afternoon, I happened to stop by a show at Hannah Traore Gallery dedicated to the Guerrilla Girls. The feminist artist group cut its teeth in the mid-’80s with a series of posters that took the art world to task by tallying data about gallery rosters, museum hangs, and more. The results were always disappointing: they showed that the art world remained overly male and overly white, with the numbers to prove it. Related Articles Interestingly, though, I couldn’t find a tally of the diversity of directors of New York museums in their archive. Here’s one as it currently stands for 2025. Today, three of the city’s four largest institutions—MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum—are all led by white men, while the Guggenheim Museum is led by a white woman. Expanding the …

Sotheby’s Shifts to Private Sales and MoMA Needs Funding

Sotheby’s Shifts to Private Sales and MoMA Needs Funding

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On the 66th floor of the Spiral office building in Hudson Yards, Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowery told a crowd of art industry insiders he does in fact “sweat bullets” and lose sleep over how much money he has to raise every year. “For sure!” Lowery said to laughs in the crowd, noting the large shifts in the museum’s endowment, building space, size of its collection and annual budget since he joined in 1995. “That $1.75 billion endowment produces $74, $75 million. We still have to find $110 million. I worry every day about that.” Related Articles “I have not had a good night’s sleep in pretty close to 25 years,” Lowery told journalist and panel moderator Julia Halperin on April 9, to more laughs. The reveal that MoMA’s endowment had grown $200 million since its last audited financial statements was among the many highlights during the second edition of the Talking Galleries conference in New York. This year’s event was organized by the Barcelona-based non-profit think tank in collaboration with New York-based …