The Art Lover: Rich lands at Gibbes as new director

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New business cards are freshly inked with the title “President and CEO, Gibbes Museum of Art” below his name, H. Alexander Rich. Dr. Alex Rich | Credit: Ashley StanolHe’s also mastering the menus at Gibbes-proximate lunch spots like Basic Kitchen, where Charleston City Paper first connected with him. It’s been several months since late 2024 when Rich was first contacted about the role in national search. A specialist in modern and contemporary art history, he was then executive director and chief curator of the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College. Alex Rich took the helm at the Gibbes Museum of Art in August | JB McCabe file photoDrawn by the GibbesUnlike many newcomers, it was not the allure of sought-after locale that piqued Rich’s interest in the Gibbes.