Word: moma
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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When Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was founded 38 years ago, it stood almost alone in the museum field as an institution dedicated wholly to making people see, understand and enjoy strictly modern art. On July 1, MOMA's first director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., 65, who has been its director of collections since 1947, will retire. A year later the current director, Rene d'Harnoncourt, 66, will step down. To replace them, the museum last week announced it had picked Cincinnati-born, Chicago-educated Bates Lowry...
...Modern knew about Lowry, a strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) father of two teenage daughters, long before then. MOMA Curator William Seitz (now at Brandeis) had been impressed by a contemporary-art exhibit, "The Object Makers," that Lowry staged while chairman of the art department at Pomona College from 1959 to 1963. Lowry is frank about what he considers the Modern's primary problem today: "It has suffered from being too successful...