Wonderful Wednesdays, Virtual
Modern educators lead a family-oriented project via a short instructional video designed in relation to works in the Modern’s permanent collection.
Modern educators lead a family-oriented project via a short instructional video designed in relation to works in the Modern’s permanent collection.
*This is a virtual event on Facebook Live*
Children learn with local artists as they lead informal projects on Facebook LIVE. 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.
The Modern is open and free to the public the Monday of Spring Break!
While the museum is normally closed on Mondays, on March 15 our doors are open, admission is waived, and families will enjoy visiting the museum together.
Explore Robert Motherwell's Elegy for the Spanish Republic, 1960, part of a large series of works memorializing the anti-fascist cause early in the last century. See how Motherwell, in vigorous black and white contrasting shapes, laments the dead and informs the living. Led by a Modern Docent.
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.