This past Sunday marked the final class day for Teen/Artist Project 2012–2013. We began the day by visiting the Modern’s FOCUS show featuring Barry McGee. Though the artist’s installation had no direct bearing on the day’s project, it was an opportunity for the teen artists to see his work while they had the chance.
Posted by Tiffany on March 7, 2013 - 1:52pm
Categories: Within the Walls
The Modern is currently celebrating 10 years in our Tadao Ando building. In conjunction with this celebration, the Anniversary Class has been taking a closer look at the Modern’s collection, focusing on 10 works in 10 days. On the third day of class, artist Kris Pierce guided an in-depth examination of the newly aquired Jenny Holzer piece, Kind of Blue, 2012. Participants researched and selected their own “truisms” and experimented with compostions made only from text.
Posted by Terri on December 4, 2012 - 9:38am
Categories: On the Walls
Light is integral to every visitor’s experience at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The museum’s architect, Tadao Ando, essentially treats light as a material that is as necessary as the concrete of the walls, the steel supports, the granite floors, and the sheets of glass that connect the museum interior to the nature and city that surrounds it.
Posted by Erin on November 15, 2012 - 10:23am
Categories: On the Walls
The role of the written word in/as art is of abiding interest to me.
Posted by Nathan on November 8, 2012 - 9:45am
Categories: On the Walls
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, it is clear that the New York gallery world has suffered a colossal blow, with scores of galleries devastated, countless works of art destroyed, and heaps of historical material washed into the Hudson. It is impossible for these events not to prove the ultimately ethereal and fleeting nature of artworks. It is from this perspective that I started to rethink one of the Modern’s recent acquisitions that is currently on view, Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #50 A, 1970.
Posted by Tiffany on November 6, 2012 - 10:32am
Categories: Within the Walls
Just as Lucian Freud: Portraits closed, the Modern’s Education Department wrapped up our final class for The Muse, a studio course where participants enjoyed a hands-on approach to studying the special exhibition. Led by renowned local artist Matthew Bourbon, the class spent time in the galleries discussing the muse and its function in Freud’s practice, as well as its historical role in painting. Matthew also introduced the work of some of Freud’s contemporaries, discussing alternative ways of dealing with the figure on the canvas.
Posted by Andrea D. on August 22, 2012 - 10:57am
Categories: Beyond the Walls, Within the Walls
While visiting the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on a recent trip to New York, I came across the Modern’s "Scull’s Angel"...
Posted by Erin on August 14, 2012 - 10:34am
Categories: Beyond the Walls
Every so often an exhibition elsewhere in the Cultural District relates to works in the Modern’s galleries. While taking in...
Posted by Tiffany on July 9, 2012 - 2:38pm
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The six- to eight-year-old art campers were extraordinarily productive last week. They made an abundance of work...
Posted by Tiffany on July 3, 2012 - 2:49pm
Categories: Within the Walls
Summer Art Camp for five-year-olds was a success! Throughout the week-long camp...
Posted by Modern Staff on June 28, 2012 - 12:37pm
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Every Thursday, the writers of the Modern Blog share a few items of interest that they've come across online. These links will generally relate to art, museums, artists, or perhaps they brought up ideas and concepts which we found worth exploring. Enjoy!
Posted by Modern Staff on June 21, 2012 - 4:27pm
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Every Thursday, the writers of the Modern Blog share a few items of interest that they've come across online. These links will generally relate to art, museums, artists, or perhaps they brought up ideas and concepts which we found worth exploring. Enjoy!
Posted by Leslie on June 19, 2012 - 9:43am
Categories: On the Walls
Barnett Newman's "Untitled Etching #1, First Version", 1969, was recently installed in the first-floor galleries...
