Adults at all skill levels learn with local artists who lead informal activities in response to selected works from the Modern’s permanent collection. Investigate and respond to works of art from the Modern’s galleries from the comfort of your own home. Each online instructional video is uniquely designed so there is something new awaiting you—just show up with a sketchbook and pencils.
For ages 4-8 and ages 9-12
Learn with local artist Lillian Young in an informal project 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.
*This is a virtual event. Click here to watch.*
In hanabi-ra, 2002, Tabaimo uses animation to create a visual haiku relating the cycles of nature to the cycles of human life. This video takes its title from a Japanese phrase meaning "flower petal" and depicts a garden inside a human body. The garden undergoes various seasonal changes, and eventually the figure dissolves, leaving behind only pieces of paper.
This week's Slow Art focuses on Bernd and Hilla Becher. The Bechers called their series of photographs “typologies.” By looking at examples from their Water Towers series, this docent-led discussion investigates the way the Bechers’ systematic approach blurs the distinction between photography and conceptual art.
Join us for First Fridays at the Modern and enjoy live music from the Bobby Falk Group.
Presented by the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, part of the Hamon Arts Library at SMU
Admission free
This nuanced fusion of the intellect and sensual experience is precisely what York achieves. In doing so, she takes Minimalism past the post, and into a realm of her own. Lucy Lippard, Susan York: 3 Columns
The Museum will be FREE and open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm for SPRING BREAK MONDAY.
Join us for First Fridays at the Modern and enjoy live music from the Daniel Stone Trio.
The River and the Wall follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1,200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes and canoes. They set out to document the borderlands and explore the potential impacts of a wall on the natural environment, but as the wilderness gives way to the more populated and heavily trafficked Lower Rio Grande Valley, they come face-to-face with the human side of the immigration debate and enter uncharted emotional waters.
