“Glenn Lowry, the director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, was the best-paid chief executive of a U.S. nonprofit art institution last year, with a total compensation package of $1.7 million in 2007.” The runners-up? “Peter Gelb, general manager of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, who had a $1.1 million compensation package and Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, who made $1.06 million….”