A public tour focused specifically on Lucian Freud: Portraits is available at 4 pm on Gallery Night.
This tour does not require prior arrangements and begins in the Museum lobby.
General museum admission applies.
Image: Lucian Freud, Two Irishmen in W11, 1984-5
Fourth Annual Get Up and Give! North Texas Giving Day
September 13, 2012
On September 13, 2012, from 7 am to midnight, The Modern is participating in Get Up and Give! North Texas Giving Day. Every donation $25 and above will be matched if you donate to us through www.DonorBridgeTX.org, North Texas’ online resource that connects donors with nonprofit organizations like us.
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.
The Miró Quartet
For information or to purchase tickets, call 817.877.3003 or visit www.chambermusicsocietyoffortworth.com.
Annual New Year’s Celebration concert with guest pianist, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and clarinetist, Gregory Raden
Camille King and Natalie Arduino perform works from the Italian court, including the “Salve Regina” and “Stabat Mater” by Domenico Scarlatti
For information or to purchase tickets, call 817.738.7939 or visit www.texascamerata.org.
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.
Bruce Nauman is one of the most influential artists working in the world today. The quintessential multi-media artist, Nauman has been a pioneer of performance and body art, conceptual photography, the use of language and sound as mediums, as well as video and site-specific installations. The Museum has recently acquired a new room-sized installation by the artist, Studio Mix, 2010. The work is inspired by a set of piano exercises that the composer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) wrote as a means of teaching children the piano.
