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.
James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all—if only he could win the heart of his true love, Roxane. There’s just one big problem: He has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano, or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight? Edmond Rostand’s masterwork is adapted by Martin Crimp and directed by Jamie Lloyd (Betrayal).
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.
Art materials are always personal. We make them personal. But they are often also connected to something else. In my case, it’s community. Mark Bradford, in Michael Auping, “Working Papers,” Mark Bradford: End Papers
Join us for First Fridays at the Modern and enjoy live music from the Bobby Falk Group.
If I look to these specific works and see what’s happening, I think it relates easily to the United States because there is contentious politics, war, different kinds of public executions, and tragedies caused by natural disasters. We share history, and we share problems as well. And we are all human in the end. Hrair Sarkissian, “Making History: Hrair Sarkissian and Omar Kholeif in Conversation,” for FOCUS: Hrair Sarkissian
Hrair Sarkissian: Syria, Belonging Not Longing
Presented by the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, part of the Hamon Arts Library at SMU
Admission free
As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colorful life is in danger of spiraling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic, and soul-searching. Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) stars in this provocative comedy.
Presented by Amphibian Stage in partnership with the Modern
