Art World Visionary Alanna Heiss Headlines the Green Critics’ Lecture Series at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU

Photography by Andrew Stankus on April 11th, 2018 in Lifestyle

Jordana Pomeroy

Miami, FL – April 14, 2018 – The Steven and Dorothea Green Critics Lecture series at Florida International University’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU presented visionary art pioneer Alanna Heiss. She is the founder of the Clocktower Gallery, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1 – which she directed for 32 years and transformed into an internationally renowned center for the production and presentation of contemporary art). Heiss regaled audience members at FIU’s museum with her lecture, featuring richly detailed stories about the New York art world and pivotal moments she was part of in the art scene that changed our world. Heiss is responsible for creating the alternative space movement of the 1970s, which revolutionized the way large-scale projects are produced and seen around the world today. She has produced over 700 exhibitions with major artists including John Baldessari, Richard Serra and Alex Katz. Since 1981, the Frost Art Museum has enhanced its exhibitions and educational programs with the Steven and Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series, which has introduced numerous art world luminaries to the South Florida community featuring some of the world’s most critically acclaimed artists, museum curators, scholars, cultural though-leaders and critics.