Ernest and Célestine return in this delightful and joyous follow-up to their first Academy Award®-nominated adventure, which introduced a bear and mouse as the unlikeliest of friends. It is up to Ernest and Célestine and their new friends, including a mysterious masked outlaw, to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.
I’m also very excited to work with the audiences at the Modern. I’ve been there just for a couple of weeks, and I’ve been very impressed when I walk through the galleries, hearing people talking about art and the type of conversations that they’re having. I’ve just never seen anything like it, to be honest...” —María Elena Ortiz, excerpt from a conversation with Marcheta Fornoff for the Fort Worth Report (September 13, 2022)
Mendi: We are trying to experience what the sounds hold. ... As Keith said to me earlier “change the air.” Keith: It is a subtle way of working. I think it’s what we like about it. Mendi: Our ephemeral inheritance also holds information. —Excerpts from Mendi + Keith Obadike - Being There: Tuesday Evenings with the Modern (November 11, 2020), with guest curator and artist lauren woods
The most playful interactive work in “I’ll Be Your Mirror” is Kristin Lucas’s “FlARmingos,” an augmented reality experience that allows the user to dance with animated flamingos superimposed on real-life settings. First created in 2017, the piece has evolved through the years. —Susan Delson, “Making Art for the Age of Screens,” Wall Street Journal (January 13, 2023)
Your work can be everlasting. There are always citations inside of the citations. Process inside of process. You’re underscoring the relationship between body and machine. You as the creator and the ways various technology informs your process...
—Legacy Russell, from a 2022 interview she and Thelma Golden conducted with Kahlil Robert Irving for the Museum of Modern Art exhibition they curated, Projects: Kahlil Robert Irving.
In recognition of the rich heritage of Tadao Ando, the architect of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth building, you are invited to celebrate Otsukimi, the annual Japanese festival that honors the autumn moon and the season ahead.
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Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible Opening Reception
Contributor level members and above
August 10, 6-8 pm
Enjoy an exclusive preview of the new exhibition followed by beer, wine, and light bites with artist Jammie Holmes and Curator María Elena Ortiz. Remarks will be at 6:30 pm in the exhibition gallery.
Paper Tigers chronicles a year in the life of Lincoln High School in the community of Walla Walla, Washington. The kids who come to Lincoln have a history of truancy, behavioral problems and substance abuse. After Lincoln's principal is exposed to research about the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), he decides to radically change the school's approach to discipline. With the aid of diary camera footage, the film follows six students.
David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama. In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.
“Shortcomings takes some bruising blows at cultural expectations ... it’s also about growing up a little too late.” Nick Allen, Roger Ebert.com.
