August 31, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

TUESDAY EVENINGS AT THE MODERN
Alejandro Cesarco, September 13

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 13
Alejandro Cesarco

For Tuesday Evenings, Alejandro Cesarco an artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay, who lives and works in New York, presents his work, as seen most recently in A Common Ground for the Uruguay Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, as well his curatorial pursuits, which include exhibitions in the United States, Uruguay, and Argentina. Cesarco’s work addresses, through different formats and strategies, his interests in repetition, narrative, and the practice of reading and translating. Similar sensibilities contribute to his role as director of the nonprofit arts organization Art Resources Transfer, where he initiated and edits Between Artists, an ongoing series of conversation-based books. “Cesarco uses the opacity of language to create narratives and cultural landscapes of melancholic precision, often cued from high-modern literature. His work seems to have always been there, granted like an old friendship, yet it confronts us with a vague and foreboding feeling of loss. In short, it feels like a traumatized but romantically healing experience of the last chapter of modernity.”—Nicolás Guagnini, Bomb magazine, winter 2009 For more information on Alejandro Cesarco, visit www.cesarco.info.

Upcoming lectures:

September 20-No lecture, museum closing at 5 pm

September 27-Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, daughter of artist Richard Diebenkorn

October 4-Jayson Musson, artist and writer,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

October 11-Dr. Frances Colpitt, art critic, contributing editor to Art in America, and Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth

October 18-Julie Snow, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Julie Snow Architects, Inc.

October 25-David Pagel, curator, art critic, and associate professor of art, Claremont University, Claremont, California

November 1- Koki Tanaka, artist, Los Angeles, California

November 8- Michael Auping, chief curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

November 15 - Katy Siegel, contributing editor for Artforum and assistant professor of art history, Hunter College, CUNY, New York*

*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.