Wrap It Up in the Modern Shop
Modern members are invited to this annual shopping event featuring local designers, live jazz, complimentary wine and light bites. Members receive an extra 10% off all regularly priced items.
Educator Evening
The Modern and twelve other area institutions will celebrate teachers during this year’s Educator Evening in the Cultural District. During this event, view current exhibitions at each Cultural District institution, network with other educators, enjoy great food, learn about educational programs, and receive free classroom resources. Administrators, homeschool educators, librarians, PreK–12 teachers at public and private schools, preservice teachers, and university faculty are welcome. No reservations are needed.
North Texas Giving Day 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018, is the day to Get Up and Give to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. It’s North Texas Giving Day! Log on to the Modern’s direct link at www.northtexasgivingday.org/modern-art-museum-of-fort-worth between 6 am and midnight to donate your gift. It makes a difference!
North Texas Giving Day is a one-day, online giving event that benefits many charitable organizations in our community, including the Modern.
Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham
Our so-called “pillow talk” is so much about what we do. Not the specifics of how we make our work or what happened in the studio today as much as what it’s like to move your work from your mind to the studio to the world and, like, what exactly are we doing being artists in the 21st century? Laurie Simmons, interview with Sheila Heti for Interview magazine, March 4, 2014
Liliana Porter
There is also something to be said for zooming out from the granular political immediacies and considering the bigger picture. . . .
Hans Butzer, AIA*
*A reception will be held in the Grand Lobby at 5:30 pm, the lecture begins at 6 pm, and award announcements are at 6:45 pm.
The purpose for our architecture, as with the National Memorial, is always to offer a z-axis for one’s individual and social identity in time, and a sense of hope for our natural environment and community. BAU Butzer Architects and Urbanism
Noah Simblist and Lauren woods converse with Dr. Max Krochmal
In this panel discussion, What Remains: The Legacy and Future of Confederate Monuments, curator, writer, and artist Dr. Noah Simblist and artist lauren woods converse with American historian Dr. Max Krochmal concerning the ways that communities tell the stories of our shared histories through art, scholarship, archives, and the built environment.
Andrea Karnes in conversation with Laurie Simmons
The strange emotional pull in each picture comes from the artist’s obsessive need to make it. Calvin Tomkins, “A Doll’s House: Laurie Simmons’s Sense of Scale,” New Yorker, December 10, 2012
Iva Kinnaird in conversation with Shelby David Meier
Both artists have what I call, at close range, “real artist” DNA. This means they make unexpected and very clever connections and juxtapositions—the kind the average human does not—that shows up in their work somewhere along a spectrum of abject and sublime. Christina Rees, review of Shelby David Meier & Iva Kinnaird: Make Time, Glasstire, October 9, 2016
Jonathan Marshall
Making things is a process by which to explore a universe out of reach, from within the limitations of our finite form. Jonathan Marshall
Austin-based artist Jonathan Marshall investigates historical perspectives and how they relate to a sense of place, conveying his commitment to making and sharing ideas as a means of declaring one’s presence on this planet at this time, what he sees as the thread that has connected the ancient language of art since its inception.