Thank you from Glenn D. LowryNovember 2017

Over the past 12 months, we’ve celebrated the first phase of our reconfigured galleries and new public spaces;
explored the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, Pedro Almodóvar, Louise Lawler,
and Ian Cheng; uncovered dust with Nina Katchadourian’s audio tour; meditated during Quiet Mornings; andeven cheered on our very own MoMA Dance Company. These highlights are just the beginning, and we could
not have done it all without you.
The first US retrospective of the influential yet elusive artist Francis Picabia, an exhibition of Josef Albers’s
rarely shown photographic work, and a celebration of visionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth all shared
new perspectives on modern icons, with works by Alexandra Bachzetsis, Cinthia Marcelle, Steve McQueen,and Nastio Mosquito bringing new and important voices to our galleries. A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise ofthe Russian Avant-Garde, Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, and Making Space: Women
Artists and Postwar Abstraction examined artistic and historical moments through the lens of our collection.
MoMA PS1 presented the first US survey of pioneering British artist Mark Leckey, and our Young Architects
Program featured LUMEN, an environmentally responsible installation displaying subtle color in sunlight andemitting glowing light after sundown.
Through our Citizens and Borders initiative, we explored contemporary architecture and design’s response to
the global refugee crisis, and highlighted artists in our collection who immigrated to the US, often as refugees
in search of safe haven. Through #ArtSpeaks, we’ve heard colleagues throughout the Museum share personal
perspectives about works that have special meaning for them and how art makes a difference in the world.
A major gift from Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros added more than 100 works by important Latin
American artists to our collection, and with the acquisition of László Moholy-Nagy’s EM 1 (Telephone Picture),
we reunited the artist’s three legendary enamel “Telephone Pictures” paintings. Key works by Graciela
Carnevale, Le Corbusier, Cheryl Dunye, Ibrahim El-Salahi, El Lissitzky, Julie Mehretu, Bruce Nauman, DayanitaSingh, Agnès Varda, Jack Whitten, and also a Fiat 500, enriched and broadened our holdings.
The renovation of the Museum’s original building, designed by Goodwin and Stone in 1929, has provided ataste of what’s to come in 2019. More spacious, flexible galleries, inviting spaces to pause and relax, andexperiments for meeting the ever-changing needs of our diverse audiences all have the same goal: to makethe Museum a place where everyone can feel welcome and to show significantly more of our collection. Let’s
Talk Art gallery sessions, a new partnership with CUNY, and the People’s Studio also reflect our commitmentto collaborating with artists, educators, and community members to spark conversations and new ways ofthinking through our collection and exhibitions.
Thank you for all that you have made possible this year, and for your support as we move forward withour building project. Together, we’ll continue to celebrate creativity in all its forms and explore the art, ideas,
and issues of our time
With best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.

Glenn D. Lowry1