New York University announced Tuesday that Alison Weaver will serve as the next director of its Grey Art Museum. She will begin in the role on May 26, after the conclusion of the current academic year. Weaver succeeds Lynn Gumpert, who retired last year and had been in the role since 1997. Weaver comes to NYU from another university museum, the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, where she served as founding executive director since 2015. Her last day at Rice will be on May 1. Related Articles As founding director, Weaver was charged with overseeing the completion of a new 50,000-square-foot building for the Moody Center, which opened in 2017, and creating the programming and vision for the new institution. She also launched an artist-in-residence program at the museum, which has invited the likes of Mona Hatoum, Coco Fusco, Bryon Kim, Leslie Hewitt, and Trevor Paglen to Houston. During her tenure, she also curated more than 25 exhibitions at the Moody Center and grew Rice’s art holdings, adding works by …