Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for 30 years, visited the M+ museum of visual culture in Hong Kong recently for a meeting with fellow members of the Sigg Prize jury and to deliver a lecture about the future of museums of modern art.
“I love how the museum is completely open to the public,” he said in an interview with the Post.
The museum of visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District charges for admission, so technically not everyone can walk in to see the exhibitions. But Lowry, who oversees a museum founded in 1929 that is home to Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, is referring to the absence of security checks.
“I don’t see people with guns. I don’t see people with bomb sniffing dogs. You walk into an American museum today, especially in New York City, and that’s what you’re going to see,” he said.
