Marc Daniel Mayer CM[1] (born 1956) is a Canadian arts manager and curator.
He ran as a Liberal candidate in the Nickel Belt in the 1974 federal election, and recorded comedic commentaries for CKSO-TV under the pseudonym "Marcel Mucker".
[4] Mayer's interest in art was encouraged by his uncle Réo who operated a small gallery in the basement of an army and navy store and was a hobbyist painter.
[5] Beginning in 2008, Mayer served as director and chief executive officer of the National Gallery of Canada.
[6] During his tenure as director and CEO, he helped with many large-scale acquisitions such as James Hart's outdoor sculpture, The Three Watchmen and other works which he sited on Nepean Point hoping to begin a "precinct of beauty" in the capital,[7] as well as co-curating the Jack Bush exhibition (2014), and overseeing numerous projects including the creation of the Canadian Photography Institute.
[10] Mayer`s final year at the National Gallery of Canada was overshadowed by controversy - the cancelled sale of a Marc Chagall painting, The Eiffel Tower (1929) which the National Gallery wanted to sell to buy a Jacques-Louis David painting, Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment (1779) owned by a Quebec City church.