birth_place title article_title name occupation
manhattan , new york director of the new museum of contemporary art lisa phillips
 lisa phillips director , curator , and author
lisa phillips

lisa phillips is an american museum director , curator , and author .
she is the toby devan lewis director of the new museum of contemporary art , in new york city .
in 1999 , phillips became the second director in the museum 's history , succeeding founding director marcia tucker .
prior to beginning her directorship at the new museum , she worked at the whitney museum of american art for twenty-three years .
