First Friday at the Modern

Performance by the Kevin Townson Trio
Special cocktail: The Sizzler

The first Friday of each month, the Star-Telegram, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Café Modern team up to bring you live music and cocktails from 5 to 8 pm. Bring your friends to enjoy diverse live performances, cocktail selections, and the opportunity to dine in Café Modern by night.

A docent-led, twenty-minute tour of the galleries is available at 6:30 pm. The tour is free for Modern members and Star-Telegram Press Pass Holders.

First Friday at the Modern

Performance by the Texas Gypsies
Special Cocktail: Texas Sunset

The first Friday of each month, the Star-Telegram, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Café Modern team up to bring you live music and cocktails from 5 to 8 pm. Bring your friends to enjoy diverse live performances, cocktail selections, and the opportunity to dine in Café Modern by night.

A docent-led, twenty-minute tour of the galleries is available at 6:30 pm. The tour is free for Modern members and Star-Telegram Press Pass Holders.

First Friday at the Modern

Performance by the Steve Story Trio.
Special Cocktail: Summer Breeze

The first Friday of each month, the Star-Telegram, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Café Modern team up to bring you live music and cocktails from 5 to 8 pm. Bring your friends to enjoy diverse live performances, cocktail selections, and the opportunity to dine in Café Modern by night.

A docent-led, twenty-minute tour of the galleries is available at 6:30 pm. The tour is free for Modern members and Star-Telegram Press Pass Holders.

Coming Together

Frederic Rzewski's minimalist masterpiece Coming Together combines a provocative text with a simple and powerful artistic concept to explore and question the American experience – which is why it's coming together with America, the mid-career retrospective of Glenn Ligon's work at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

First Friday at the Modern

Performance by St. Frinatra
Special cocktail: May Day

The first Friday of each month, the Star-Telegram, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Café Modern team up to bring you live music and cocktails from 5 to 8 pm. Bring your friends to enjoy diverse live performances, cocktail selections, and the opportunity to dine in Café Modern by night.

A docent-led, twenty-minute tour of the galleries is available at 6:30 pm. The tour is free for Modern members and Star-Telegram Press Pass Holders.

Lucy Lippard

Lucy Lippard is a distinguished writer, curator, editor, lecturer, and activist who has long been appreciated for her expansive scholarship and insight, having been one of the first to recognize the dematerialization of the work in art’s movement toward conceptualism as well as an early champion of feminist art. The author of 21 books, curator of 50 exhibitions, cofounder of Printed Matter Inc., the Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, Artists Call Against U.S.

Gregg Bordowitz

Writer and artist Gregg Bordowitz presents Testing Some Beliefs, an ongoing series of lectures/performances that consider the strength and longevity, as well as the present relevancy, of some personal and collective beliefs.

"Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics' by José Esteban Muñoz

Sign up for one or all of the following discussions on literature relating to Glenn Ligon: AMERICA. This program is free and open to the public, but is limited to the first 15 people who register. To register, send an e-mail to education@themodern.org and include "Ligon Reading and Discussion" in the subject line. The books can be purchased at the Modern Shop and should be read before the meeting.

"Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin

Sign up for one or all of the following discussions on literature relating to Glenn Ligon: AMERICA. This program is free and open to the public, but is limited to the first 15 people who register. To register, send an e-mail to education@themodern.org and include "Ligon Reading and Discussion" in the subject line. The books can be purchased at the Modern Shop and should be read before the meeting.