Director’s Council Kick-Off with KAWS
Followed by a cocktail reception at a private home.
Followed by a cocktail reception at a private home.
Members’ Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Building
Saturday, the eighth of December
six until eight o’clock
Docent tours of the new Tenth Anniversary Acquisitions
Music by Saint Frinatra
Modern Shop open for Holiday shopping with special drawings for prizes!
Modern Contemporaries: 10th Anniversary Cheer
Join fellow Modern Contemporaries members for cake and champagne in celebration of the Modern’s 10th anniversary in the new building!
If you are in your 20s or 30s and want to be included in these and many other exclusive events at the Museum, visit www.themodern.org/membership.html or call 817.840.2115.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Tadao Ando
A public lecture in honor of the 10 year anniversary of the Modern’s building
Saturday, October 20; noon
Museum Auditorium
Book signing prior to lecture beginning at 11 am.
$35
Tickets will be available on a first come, first serve basis, online, beginning October 1 at 7 am.
Seating is limited.
Tickets are sold out.
Day in the District is a celebration of the rich and diverse cultural organizations in Fort Worth, with exciting, entertaining, and interactive programming and performances. The museums, in the Cultural District, offer free admission, and various performing arts organizations offer free performances in and around the museums. This festival is designed to invite local residents to enjoy the world-class cultural experiences offered in Fort Worth.
Mark Haddon’s celebrated, multi-award-winning novel is beautifully and imaginatively adapted into a stage play for the first time.
Julie Walters plays Judy Haussman with Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory as her children in his eagerly-anticipated new play: a funny, touching and sometimes savage portrait of a family that’s losing its grip.
Simon Russell Beale takes the title role in Shakespeare’s strange fable of consumption, debt and ruin, written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton.
Jenny Holzer is internationally recognized for her daring approach to public art and her dramatic site-specific installations in galleries and museums. Since the mid-1970s, Holzer has used language as her primary means of expression, delivering various statements and stories through a wide range of media. Beginning with inexpensively printed posters, Holzer’s art has steadily evolved in sophistication, expanding into a lexicon that includes advertising billboards, radio, television, clothing, and the medium she is most associated with—the electronic sign.
Howard Rachofsky is an internationally renowned collector of contemporary art living in Dallas. He began collecting in the mid-1970s, and over the past three decades has amassed a world-class collection of paintings, sculpture, video, and installation art by many of the era’s greatest artists, including Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, and Mark Rothko, among many others.