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Glenn Lowry
Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

“Oil & Sugar : Contemporary Art and Islamic Culture”


March 2, 2009

Website:  MoMA

Books:

The new Museum of Modern Art / Glenn D. Lowry ; with an essay by Terence Riley. – New York : Dept. of Publications, Museum of Modern Art, 2005.
Fine Arts  |  FAL-LC N 620 .M9 L69 2005
Loeb Design  |  N 620 .M9 L69 2005

Masterworks of modern art from the Museum of Modern Art, New York / introduced by Glenn D. Lowry. – New York :
Scalavision ; New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2005.
Fine Arts  |  FAL-LC N 620 .M9 M386 2005

The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza art collection and plaza memorials / Governor George E. Pataki, foreword; Kenneth J. Ringler, Jr., note on the new catalogue ; Glenn D. Lowry, the Empire State Plaza Art Collection; Dennis R. Anderson, Nelson A. Rockefeller and Modern Art; photography by Michael Fredericks; [curated by Dennis R. Anderson and Glenn D. Lowry]. – 1st ed. – Albany, New York: New York State Office of General Services, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 2002.
Fine Arts  |  FA 920.605.158.2

Timur and the princely vision : Persian art and culture in the fifteenth century / Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry. – Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Washington : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Fine Arts  |  FA 500.460.7
Lamont  |  N 7291 .L46 1989

A jeweler’s eye : Islamic arts of the book from the Vever Collection / Glenn D. Lowry with Susan Nemazee. – Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1988.
Fine Arts  |  67 W27sv

An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Vever Collection [Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution] / Glenn D. Lowry … [et al.]; contributions by Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemazee, and Janet G. Snyder. – Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1988.
Fine Arts  |  67 W27svc

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution).  Asian art in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : the inaugural gift / Thomas Lawton … [et al.; contributors include Glenn D. Lowry] – Washington, D.C. : The Gallery, 1987.
Fine Arts  |  Harvard Depository 67 W27s
Rubel (Fine Arts)  | A 1070 S122A  

Fatehpur-Sikri : selected papers from the International Symposium on Fatehpur-Sikri held on October 17-19, 1985 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts … / edited by Michael Brand and Glenn D. Lowry. – Bombay : Published by J.J. Bhabha for Marg Publications, c1987.  [Conference sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Dept. of Fine Arts at Harvard University.]
Fine Arts  |  FA 1865.384.8 Folio

From concept to context : approaches to Asian and Islamic calligraphy / by Shen Fu, Glenn D. Lowry, and Ann Yonemura. – Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1986.  [Catalog of an exhibition held July 29-Nov. 16, 1986 at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., of works from its collections.]
Fine Arts  |  FA 9090.3 Folio
Rubel (Fine Arts)  |  Harvard Depository A 1070 F856Fr  

Akbar’s India : art from the Mughal city of victory / by Michael Brand and Glenn D. Lowry. – New York : Asia Society Galleries, 1985.  [Catalog of an exhibition organized in celebration of the Festival of India, 1985-86, held at the Asia Society Galleries, Oct. 10, 1985 - Jan. 5, 1986, at the Harvard University Art Museums (Arthur M. Sackler Museum), Jan. 24-Mar. 16, 1986, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Apr. 19-June 15, 1986.
Fine Arts  |  FA 485.460.18

Fatehpur-Sikri : a sourcebook / edited by Michael Brand and Glenn D. Lowry ; with contributions by Ziauddin A. Desai and Attilio Petruccioli. – Cambridge, Mass.: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985.
Fine Arts  |  FA 1865.384.6

The tomb of Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad Humayun / by Glenn David Lowry. – Thesis (Ph.D.), Harvard University, 1982.
Harvard Archives  |  HU90.11754 Harvard Depository.

From the courts of India : Indian miniatures in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum / by Ellison Banks Findly ; introduction by Glenn D. Lowry. – Worcester, Mass. : The Museum, 1981.
Fine Arts  |  67 W92ip

The grand Mogul : imperial painting in India, 1600-1660 / by Milo Cleveland Beach ; with contributions by Stuart Cary Welch and Glenn D. Lowry. – Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978.
Fine Arts  |  FA 3464.601.63
Lamont  |  ND 3247 .B38  
Rubel (Fine Arts)  |  Harvard Depository AA 860 B366G  

 

Articles:

“Sulle trace di Glenn = On  Glenn’s tracks” [Glenn Lowry] \ Francesco Bonami.  In: Domus, December 2007, n.909, p.106-109.

 “Gained in translation” / Glenn D. Lowry.  In: ARTnews, March 2006, v.105, pt.3, p.120-125.  [With reference to the exhibition 'Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking' at New York's Museum of Modern Art (26 Feb.-22 May 2006), examines the ways in which contemporary artists from the Islamic world explore the tensions between East and West, tradition and modernity, and culture and personal identity.]

“Les broderies amoureuses de Ghada Amer” [Embroidered scenes of love by Ghada Amer] / Glenn D. Lowry [interviewer].  In: Connaissance des Arts (France), November 2002, n.599, p.58-63.  [New York-based Egyptian artist Ghada Amer (b.1963) discusses her work.]

“Feminin masculine : l’art puissance 4” [Feminine masculine : art power 4] / Glenn D. Lowry, Isabelle Armand [interviewers]; Philip Jodidio.  In: Connaissance des Arts (France), May 2001, n.583, p.62-73.  [Presents the four contemporary artists: Toba Khedoori (b.1964), Shirin Neshat (b.1957), Rachid Khimoune (b.1953), and Pablo Reinoso (b.1955).]

 “On the gold jug inscribed to Abu Mansur al-Amir Bakhtiyar ibn Mu’izz al-Dawla in the Freer Gallery of Art / Glenn D. Lowry.  In: Ars Orientalis, 1989, v.19, p.103-115.

“Humayun’s Tomb : form, function and meaning in early Mughal architecture” / Glenn D. Lowry.  In: Mugarnas, 1987, v.4, p.[133]-148.

“Urban structures and functions” [of Fatehpur-Sikri] / Glenn D. Lowry.  In: Marg, 1986, v.38, n.2, p.25-48.