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 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 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 Erin on April 17, 2012 - 5:00pm
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
Is it not the nature of creativity to be boundless and open-ended, free of restraint? Several of this summer’s educator workshops...
Posted by Michael M. on September 13, 2011 - 12:20pm
Categories: On the Walls, Viewfinder, Within the Walls
"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have." -- Tadao Ando
Posted by Andrea D. on August 12, 2011 - 9:20am
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
Every time I walk past the Modern's Cornwall Summer Circle, 1995, by Richard Long, it reminds me of Stonehenge.
Posted by Terri on March 7, 2011 - 10:42am
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
Why did the artist cross the road?
To see the other side
To see from the other side...
Posted by Andrea D. on February 18, 2011 - 10:18am
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
In the fall of 2009, I began working at the Modern as an intern where I did my blogging from a cozy little nook next to the PR offices. Now I work at the Museum as the online media coordinator and over the past few weeks I have been organizing the “intern nook” into an office.
Posted by Terri on February 15, 2011 - 10:37am
Categories: Within the Walls
Uta Barth was here last week for the Modern’s first 2011 Tuesday Evenings lecture...
Posted by Terri on December 6, 2010 - 3:52pm
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
While sitting at my desk, thinking of a passage in William Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying" concerning the horizontal and vertical in life, death, and art, I conjured up a mental image of the space and art in the fifth gallery...
Posted by on December 1, 2010 - 2:27pm
Categories: Within the Walls
Poison Tree from Modern Art Museum of FW on Vimeo.
Vernon Fisher's work, currently on view in Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism, is often noted for its allusive quality.
Posted by Andrea D. on September 27, 2010 - 12:30pm
Categories: Within the Walls
1. Tadao Ando’s homage to Marcel Duchamp is...
Posted by Terri on September 21, 2010 - 10:29am
Categories: Within the Walls
Conversation is plentiful after the Eve Sussman|Rufus Corporation presentation...
Posted by Terri on September 13, 2010 - 3:44pm
Categories: Podcasts, Within the Walls
This past Tuesday, in spite of torrential rain and tornado watches, ninety-four undeterred people gathered to hear from artist, writer, and professor Michael Corris. These faithful folks were rewarded with a sometimes dense, often funny, and consistently thoughtful presentation on issues concerning the use of text in contemporary art.
