August 16, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Fall 2011 Tuesday Evenings Lecture Series
at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

September 6-November 15
This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public. To assure seating, free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern's admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250. A live broadcast of the lectures is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Lectures begin at 7 pm. The Museum galleries and the café remain open until 7 pm on Tuesdays during the series.

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September 6 – Sean Dockray, artist, writer, and founding director of Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles, California, has initiated critical and innovative projects, including The Public School and AAAARG.ORG. For Tuesday Evenings, he presents Exhibitability, a reflection on the sometimes destructive threshold he observed while running an art space as well as his own queries on alternatives to the exhibition model.

September 13 – Alejandro Cesarco, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, is an artist living and working in New York. For Tuesday Evenings, he presents his work as seen in the Uruguay Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, as well as his curatorial endeavors in Uruguay, the United States, and Argentina.

September 20 – No lecture, the Museum will close at 5 pm on September 20

September 27 – Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, daughter of Richard Diebenkorn, shares her insights and thoughts on the life and art of her father on the occasion of Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, the most comprehensive show to date of Diebenkorn’s celebrated works, the Ocean Park paintings.

October 4 – Jayson Musson is an artist and writer living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For Tuesday Evenings, he shares his multifaceted body of work, which includes provocative performances, drawings, and writings, as well as Art Thoughtz by his “cousin” Hennessey Youngman.

October 11 – Dr. Frances Colpitt, art critic, corresponding editor to Art in America, and holder of the Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University, presents the problems of abstract painting in the postmodern/electronic age in her Tuesday Evenings lecture, Problems and Possibilities for Abstract Painting in Postmodernism.

October 18 – Julie VandenBerg Snow, FAIA, here as the lead juror for the Forth Worth AIA annual Design Awards, presents her thoughts on architecture today and how those ideas relate to the designs and buildings produced by her “studio-based, project-driven” practice, Julie Snow Architects Inc.

October 25 – David Pagel, curator, art critic, and associate professor of art at Claremont University in Claremont, California, presents Getting It Wrong in Just the Right Way: Diebenkorn’s West Coastism, addressing the various ways some prominent California artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, have been out of step with prevailing trends and tendencies, often doing things wrong to get their art right.

November 1 – Koki Tanaka, born in Tochigi, Japan, is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. For Tuesday Evenings, he presents the development of his playful and insubordinate art that, as he describes in an interview with Akiko Miki, a curator at Palais de Tokyo, has moved from an interest in “how the exhibition is structured to the ordinary process of making of the work, to how the content is developed.”

November 8 – Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, presents Los Angeles: Light and Space at Land’s Edge, focusing on the unique qualities of light in Southern California and how those qualities have inspired painters, sculptors, and installation artists for decades. What began as painterly replications of light—both abstract (Richard Diebenkorn, John McLaughlin) and representational (Ed Ruscha and Vija Celmins)—evolved into architectural investigations of the phenomenology of light (Robert Irwin, Maria Nordman, and Bruce Nauman).

November 15 – Katy Siegel, contributing editor for Artforum and professor of art history at Hunter College, CUNY, discusses her recent book, Since ’45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, a fairly theoretical study of how temporal discontinuity figured in the understanding of art during that period ... and was essentially based on reading American art criticism and related writing in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.—Katy Siegel in an interview with Phong Bui, Brooklyn Rail.
* A book signing in conjunction with the publication of Siegel’s recent book, Since ’45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, will precede the lecture.

Tuesday Evenings Cocktails and Light Bites
Guests can enjoy refreshments from 5 to 7 pm in Café Modern before Tuesday Evenings lectures. Choose from Café Modern’s unique cocktail menu or distinctive wine list. Coffee, tea, and light snacks are also available.

LOCATION
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Telephone 817.738.9215
Toll-Free 1.866.824.5566
Fax 817.735.1161
www.themodern.org

Museum Gallery Hours
Tue 10 am–7 pm (Sep-Nov)
Wed-Sun 10 am–5 pm
Fri 10 am–8 pm

General Admission Prices (includes special exhibition)
$4 for students with ID and seniors (60+)
$10 for adults ($13+)
Free for children 12 and under
Free for Modern members
Free every Wednesday and the first Sunday of every month

CAFÉ MODERN
Lunch
Tue-Fri 11 am-2:30 pm
Brunch
Sat-Sun10 am-3 pm
Dinner
Fri 5-10 pm
Coffee, snacks, and dessert
10 am-4:30 pm

The Museum is closed Monday and holidays including New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas.