Lowry Extends Directorship at MoMA

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Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art

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NEW YORK—The Museum of Modern Art's director Glenn D. Lowry has extended his tenure at the museum for another five years. Lowry became the sixth director of MoMA in 1995, and under the agreement announced February 15, he will continue to serve in that role through June 30, 2013. Lowry has led the museum in presenting major exhibitions and growing its permanent collection. He was also responsible for overseeing the landmark expansion and renovation of the museum by architect Yoshio Taniguchi and directing the $858 million capital campaign, which was successfully completed in 2005, and exceeded its goal by $42 million. He is a trustee on the Williams College Board and a member of the Steering Committee for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and also serves on the advisory council of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

HARTFORD, Conn.—The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has chosen Susan Lubowsky Talbott as its new director. Talbott is currently the director of Smithsonian Arts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She has provided leadership and oversight for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of African Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Archives of American Art, and the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, all in Washington, D.C., and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. She served as director and CEO of the Des Moines Art Center from 1998 to 2005, before joining the Smithsonian Institution.

LONDON—South London Gallery curator Kit Hammonds is stepping down to pursue independent projects. Hammonds, who has been at the gallery for about six years, will keep his teaching position in the Royal College of Art, and he will stay involved with South London, including curating a show at the gallery this summer. Hammonds's past experience includes curating exhibitions on a freelance basis for various institutions and writing for Untitled and Tema Celeste art magazines

NEW YORK—Cheim & Read gallery has made director Adam Sheffer a partner. Sheffer's experience prior to joining Cheim & Read includes working at Mary Boone Gallery for five years and serving as associate director at Robert Miller Gallery.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—The Orange County Museum of Art announced Lauri Firstenberg will be the guest curator of its 2008 California Biennial. Firstenberg is the founder and director/curator of the nonprofit contemporary art space LAXART, a former assistant director/curator at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, and a former curator of Artists Space in New York. She is currently part of the adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California's Roski School of Arts in its Public Art Studies Program and has been a visiting lecturer at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art has chosen Claire Schneider as its new senior curator. Schneider, who takes over the position April 21, comes to SMoCA after a decade as a curator at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. She has also served as adjunct curator at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland, and as a curatorial intern at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Rose Art Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Schneider earned her B.A. in art history at Tufts University and her M.A. in art history from Williams College.