In honor of Thanksgiving, David Bates’s "Thanksgiving Dinner" (1982) has been installed in the second floor galleries...
Posted by Andrea D. on October 29, 2010 - 3:07pm
Categories: On the Walls
One of my favorite holidays is fast approaching: Halloween. And while it's fun...
Posted by Laura M. on September 9, 2010 - 12:54pm
Categories: On the Walls
On August 15, the New York Times published an article documenting the journey of five scientists who left their electronically dependent lives...
Posted by Ailie on August 12, 2010 - 4:06pm
Categories: On the Walls
As summer comes to an end, I find myself thinking about some of the season's finer qualities. Despite the sometimes-oppressive heat...
Posted by Ailie on August 9, 2010 - 9:04am
Categories: On the Walls
Tucked in the corner of one of the Modern's upstairs galleries is a medium-sized, black-and-white photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto...
Posted by Laura M. on August 3, 2010 - 2:43pm
Categories: On the Walls
As a child, I was unnerved by our attic. Every Christmas, when my father climbed its ladder to retrieve a box of tinsel or lights...
Posted by Andrea D. on July 30, 2010 - 3:12pm
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
The first work of art that a visitor sees when walking into The Modern's downstairs galleries...
Posted by Ailie on July 19, 2010 - 1:14pm
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
I have often found that to gain a deeper understanding of a work of art, it helps to know its historical context...
Posted by Laura M. on July 13, 2010 - 2:19pm
Categories: On the Walls
In his book Color in Art, historian John Gage suggests that our taste for primary color in Modernist art began...
Posted by Andrea D. on July 12, 2010 - 3:45pm
Categories: On the Walls
The finals of the FIFA World Cup Soccer Tournament were played in Johannesburg, South Africa yesterday. Spain managed...
Posted by Andrea D. on July 6, 2010 - 3:54pm
Categories: On the Walls
It seems like the art of Ellsworth Kelly is everywhere, particularly around the Metroplex...
Posted by Ailie on June 14, 2010 - 1:45pm
Categories: On the Walls
Texas summers make me miss spring. The short glimmer of cool weather we have in north Texas...
Posted by Laura M. on June 8, 2010 - 12:33pm
Categories: On the Walls
Perhaps, while slaving through your liberal arts education (or simply perusing public television), you wandered into the world of mythology...
Posted by Andrea D. on June 4, 2010 - 3:42pm
Categories: On the Walls
In The Modern's latest FOCUS exhibition, Ben Jones takes the term "mixed media" as literally as possible...
Posted by Andrea D. on May 7, 2010 - 4:31pm
Categories: On the Walls
When wandering through Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, The Last Supper (1986) is undoubtedly one of the exhibition's standouts...
