Thomas Demand
THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
To form something from nearly nothing, to obtain meaning by shaping, is what this picture promises.
Thomas Demand, referring to a photograph of Henri Matisse in his studio, “Thomas Demand on Matisse,” Tate Etc. 31 (Summer 2014)
Martha Tuttle
What is a word for collaboration between material will and human intention that implies generation rather than decay?
Martha Tuttle, artist statement
Frank Stella with Michael Auping
April 12 - Frank Stella, artist featured in Frank Stella: A Retrospective, in conversation with Modern Chief Curator Michael Auping
Fernando Bryce
Minus the gold leaf, they function like pictures with pronounced textual elements — in other words, illustrated manuscripts for the 21st century.
Christian Viveros-Fauné, “Fernando Bryce, One-of-a Kind Copyist, On View in Chelsea,” Village Voice, December 15, 2015.
Arne Svenson
What persists is an understated elegance and a sensitivity to gesture, color, and composition in fragmentary pictures: a silhouetted figure, a masked face, a veined arm. Presented in an oval format . . . the images might have been spied through a keyhole, and their Old Master allusiveness isn’t contradicted by the suggestion of dust and sweat.
New Yorker, review of Arne Svenson: The Workers at Julie Saul Gallery, 2015
Fergus Feehily
Feehily has a very good eye, and knows how to make modesty feel major. And that, evidently, is plenty.
Martin Herbert, review of Fergus Feehily at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, Frieze (October 2011).
Glenn Kaino
It is about the poetics of not knowing—about both mining and understanding the membrane between the known and the unknown. Glenn Kaino, in “Building Bridges: Glenn Kaino,” by Seth Hawkins, Artillery (May 2015).
Richard Wentworth with Gavin Morrison
February 23 – Richard Wentworth, a leading figure in British art since the 1970s, is in dialogue with curator and writer Gavin Morrison to mark the recent publication of Making Do and Getting By.
Spring Break Wonders
Take advantage of family programming at the Modern over the course of the week while your school-aged children are on Spring Break. Each session is led by a docent and includes a gallery project designed by the education department. Both the tour and project focus on selected works in the Modern’s collection. Registration is not required. Attendance is limited to 45 children per session; admission is free.
March 14 – Focusing on Color
March 15 – Focusing on Line
March 16 – Focusing on Shape
March 17 – Focusing on Value
Free Spring Break Monday
The Museum will be FREE and open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm for SPRING BREAK MONDAY.