The J. Paul Getty Belief has appointed Glenn D. Lowry, the previous director of New York’s Museum of Fashionable Artwork, and Lionel M. Sauvage, a French philanthropist and collector, to its board of trustees. Each will start as trustees in 2026.
“It’s an honor and delight to welcome Glenn and Lionel to Getty’s Board of Trustees. Each have a lifelong dedication to the humanities, and deep and diverse expertise. Their contributions will profit Getty in numerous methods,” Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of Getty, stated in a press release. “Having recognized and seen every of them in motion over a number of years, I sit up for what they may convey to Getty as we work to rework our customer expertise and increase our world attain.”
Lowry stepped down as director of MoMA in September, bringing to a detailed a 30-year tenure that made him the longest-serving chief within the establishment’s historical past. Lowry shepherded MoMA via a number of main evolutions, together with two renovations and one growth.
The 2019 growth, which elevated MoMA’s space to 708,000 sq. ft, was accompanied by an influential rehang of the gathering that broke boundaries between artwork, structure, dance, movie, and different traditionally siloed disciplines. His accomplishments additionally embrace the merging of PS1, a recent artwork area in a former Lengthy Island Metropolis faculty, with MoMA. He serves on the Robert Rauschenberg Basis’s board of administrators, and sits on the advisory boards of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Artwork, the Mori Artwork Museum, and the Istanbul Museum of Fashionable Artwork.
French American financier and collector Liones Sauvage has held management roles in quite a few cultural establishments, together with the American Mates of the Louvre and London’s Wallace Assortment. Sauvage presently serves as chairman of Les Arts Décoratif, the French nonprofit that features the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and the Ecole Camondo, a number one faculty of design and inside design in Paris.
A specialist in 18th-century French artwork, he has loaned works from his assortment to exhibitions at Domaine de Chantilly. He was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters and a Knight of the Order of Advantage in recognition of his patronage.
As of 2023, the J. Paul Getty Belief has an endowment of $8.59 billion, making it the wealthiest artwork belief on the earth. It helps the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Basis, the Getty Analysis Institute, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
