Glenn Wharton is a Professor of Art History at UCLA and Chair of the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Prior to this he was on faculty in the Museum Studies Program at New York University where he researched and taught about conserving new forms of contemporary art and social justice programming in museums. From 2007-2013 he served as Media Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art. Glenn is co-director of the Artist Archive Initiative at NYU, a project designed to promote research and disseminate knowledge about the work of contemporary artists. In 2006 he founded Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), a non-profit organization focusing on the production, presentation, and preservation of contemporary art.