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Course 1
Assortment of House-made Chacuterie
Paired with Chateau Recougne Blanc 2012
Course 2
Grilled Mackerel with Tomato
Paired with Basa White 2011
Course 3
Braised Rabbit and Chickpea Crepes
Paired with Ch Recougne Bourdeaux 2009
Course 4
Lamb Chop with White Bean Stew
Paired with Telmo Rodriguez M2 2005
Course 5
Manchego and Membrillo Ice Cream
Paired with Quinta Do Noval Black N/V
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Café Modern announce a Valentine’s Day Dinner on Friday, February 14. The evening will feature cocktails and music in the Grand Lobby from 5 to 8 pm, and dinner in the Café. Start dinner early and finish the evening with our featured film, A Man and A Woman, at 8:30 pm in the auditorium.
Everybody Needs an Outlet. How About a Creative One?
Thursday, March 27
Join Modern Contemporaries members in the studio for wine, beer, and a little artmaking of your own. We’ll visit the exhibition David Bates for some inspiration.
Cocktails with the Artist: David Bates
Friday, March 7
Join fellow Modern Contemporaries members for cocktails and a private tour of the special exhibition David Bates led by David Bates himself. You will not want to miss this opportunity to hear directly from the artist!
Modern Contemporaries @ FOCUS: Fred Tomaselli
Friday, January 10
Join members of the Director’s Council for a FOCUS show opening and reception.
April 1 – Matthew Buckingham is a filmmaker and multimedia artist recognized for utilizing photography, film, video, audio, writing, and drawing to question the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. After earning an MFA from Bard College and attending the Whitney’s Independent Study Program, Buckingham received the 2003 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship and a 2007 Artpace residency. His projects create physical and social contexts that encourage viewers to question what is most familiar to them.
March 25 – Kenneth Goldsmith is, among many distinctions, the 2013 inaugural Poet Laureate of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and founding editor of online archive UbuWeb. With eleven books of poetry to his name, Goldsmith’s writing has been called “some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry” by Publishers Weekly. He was invited to read at President Obama’s “A Celebration of American Poetry” at the White House, where he also held a poetry workshop with First Lady Michelle Obama.
March 18 – Cynthia Daignault, a New York painter recognized for her tenacious and poetic spirit, makes work that highly regards its predecessors while honoring the present solitary and unsung moment within nature, technology, and unsuspecting spaces. With a BA from Stanford in 2001, Daignault has had early success with a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.
March 11 – Triple Canopy is a magazine based in New York. Since 2007, Triple Canopy has advanced a model for publication that encompasses digital works of art and literature, public conversations, exhibitions, and books. This model hinges on the development of publishing systems that incorporate networked forms of production and circulation. Working closely with artists, writers, technologists, and designers, Triple Canopy produces projects that demand considered reading and viewing.
March 4 – HOMECOMING! Committee is an assembly of artists and creatives who seek to develop collaborative projects in conjunction with their individual artistic production, establishing initiatives and venues in which all manner of creative individuals can operate as co-collaborators. This relational aesthetics-like program has proven successful. The group’s first endeavor, Launch Party in 2011, set into motion what has been a flourishing exhibition and event schedule.
