Learn with local artists as they lead informal projects on video. Hands-on exercises relate to works you might remember from visiting the Modern’s galleries or are introduced to here and can look forward to visiting in the future. Projects are designed with household materials in mind.
Though there won't be a new Drawing from the Collection this weekend, we encourage you to revisit some of your favorite projects from the past. Each online instructional video is uniquely designed —just show up with a sketchbook and pencils.
Modern educators lead a family-oriented project via a short instructional video designed in relation to works in the Modern’s permanent collection. This week's presentation will focus on Mark Bradford's Kingdom Day, 2010.
In this installment, we look at three works by Ellsworth Kelly, Red Panel, Dark Green Panel, and Dark Blue Panel, all completed in 1986. Kelly’s work often defies categorization, a fact that pleased him. Are these paintings? Sculpture? Installation? Kelly denied that they represented objects, saying, “They are objects themselves.” Explore the contradictions with a Modern docent.
John Chamberlain’s Scull’s Angel, 1974, shows the artist working in his signature material—crushed car parts. Chamberlain makes the familiar new in work that embodies the gesture and energy of Abstract Expressionism and the consumer imagery of Pop art. Take a close look at Chamberlain’s fascinating life and work. Led by a Modern docent.
Learn with local artist Shelby Orr in taking a closer look at Morris Louis, Beta Mu, 1960, and learn to design and mail a postcard painting. Projects are designed with household materials in mind.
This virtual event has be postponed.
In Colonel Platoff on his Charger, 2008, painter Kehinde Wiley renders a centuries-old statement of prestige and authority—a man astride a powerful horse—with an insightful, contemporary twist. Wiley re-creates an 1815 image of a Russian Cossack colonel, but he replaces the military leader with a modern Black youth in street clothes. Learn some of what Wiley suggests with such a substitution. Led by a Modern docent.
*This is a virtual event.*
Modern educators lead a family-oriented project via a short instructional video designed in relation to works in the Modern’s permanent collection and the special exhibition Mark Bradford: End Papers.
This project will focus on Francis Bacon's Self-Portrait, 1956.
Modern educators lead a family-oriented project via a short instructional video designed in relation to works in the Modern’s permanent collection and the special exhibition Mark Bradford: End Papers. The November session will focus on docent favorites!
Francis Bacon's Self-Portrait, 1956, captures several of the artist's distinctive features, including his broad face, deep-set eyes, and commanding stature. Delve further into this painting from the Modern's permanent collection in this docent-led video.
