2008 Programs and Events
MoMA in Greece
In front of a packed audience at the Megaro Mousikis on March 17, Glenn Lowry, the Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, spoke on the topic, “Making the Modern: A disruptive theory of the Museum of Modern Art,” and U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Daniel Speckhard, delivered opening remarks. Lowry described his methodology for establishing the MoMA as the distinguished organization that it is today, explaining that “for an art museum to be successful, it must first and foremost demonstrate a core commitment to the art it believes in over everything else.” Lowry’s lecture was part of the “Great Ideas” series in honor of the Fulbright Foundation’s 60th Anniversary, designed to bring noted American experts and artists to Greece to perform and discuss current topics of interest to the Greek and American people. The major sponsor of the series is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the series is organized with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Athens and the U.S. Consulate General in Thessaloniki. The President of Yale University, Richard Levin, will be the next speaker in the series and will come in June.