Miami Art Museum director to speak Nov. 6

Miami Art Museum director to speak Nov. 6

BY JENNIFER EVANS
Rice News staff

Terence Riley, the second speaker in the Menil/Rice Lecture Series, has a wealth of personal experience relating to the topic “Modern Art, Modern Architecture, Modern Museums,” the title of his Nov. 6 lecture at Rice.

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Riley has been director of the Miami Art Museum (MAM) since March 2006, a position he took after 14 years at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where he was chief curator of architecture and design. At MoMA he organized influential, often pioneering, exhibitions and programs and was involved in the planning, design, fundraising and successful launching of MoMA’s expanded and renovated 630,000-square-foot facility. At MAM, Riley is overseeing planning and development of the museum’s new state-of-the-art $208 million facility and sculpture garden.

He is a professional member of the American Institute of Architects, a trustee of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona, Spain, and an advisory board member of the Parsons Graduate School of Design.

Riley graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in architecture and has a master’s degree in architecture and urban planning from Columbia University.

The Menil/Rice Lecture is free and open to the public and will be at 7 p.m. in 100 Herring Hall.

It is the second lecture in the four-part series titled “Architecture and Museums,” co-sponsored by Rice’s Department of Art History and The Menil Collection. The series is part of a larger campus initiative to link Rice with cultural institutions in Houston. The lectures are generously funded by Rice alumna Suzanne Deal Booth as part of her efforts to support this campus initiative.

For more information on Riley’s lecture, call 713-348-4276 or visit <http://arthistory.rice.edu/events.cfm>.