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MIAMI, Fla. (Nov. 19, 2002)
– The Art Museum at Florida International University
is proud to present Neil Benezra, director of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art and former deputy director of The
Art Institute of Chicago, as part of the XXII Steven and Dorothea
Green Critics’ Lecture Series.
Benezra will speak on “Juan
Muñoz and Contemporary Sculpture” on Friday, Dec.
6, at 8 pm in the Green Library, Room 100, at FIU-University Park
(S.W. 107th Avenue and S.W. 8th Street). As part of Art
Basel, Benezra will be featured on an 11:30 a.m. panel discussion
the following morning in the Miami Beach Convention Center, Room
D 237, “Collectors and Collections: The Value of Collectors
to the Growth and Development of Museums.” The panel will
be moderated by FIU Art Museum Director Dahlia Morgan.
The Green Critics Lecture Series has featured
a long list of art world luminaries over the past two decades,
including Susan Sontag, Robert Farris Thompson, James Rosenquist,
Arnold Lehman and many more.
Other Art Museum happenings on the immediate horizon for FIU include:
- Tues., Dec. 3 -- Alanna
Lockward, associate curator of Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo
Domingo, speaks as part of the Museum’s Latin American
and Caribbean Lecture Series. Like Benezra’s appearance,
Lockward’s lecture, “Contemporary Photography from
Haiti and The Dominican Republic,” is being held in conjunction
with Art Basel and will take place at Citibank in the Bayfront
Financial Center, 120 S. Biscayne Boulevard. This
is an invitation-only event, but interested media representatives
are encouraged to attend. Please call 305.348.1899 for details.
- Mon., Dec. 16 –
The Museum’s semi-annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
opens, Fall 2002 graduates. BFA students will be available to
talk about their work at Wednesdays After Hours in the
Art Museum on Wed., Dec. 18.
For more information on any of these events,
please contact Isabel Block Flefel at 305.348.3689 or Todd Simmons
at 305.348.2716.
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