Special Exhibition Tour
A public tour focused specifically on current special exhibitions is available at 2 pm on the second Saturday of each month. This tour does not require prior arrangements and begins in the Museum lobby.
Architecture Tour
This tour focuses on the Modern’s renowned building, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Tadao Ando. Learn the concepts behind Ando’s design and explore the variety of gallery spaces, the reflecting pond and grounds, the iconic concrete Y-columns, and many other aspects of what has been named one of the “World’s Most Beautiful Art Museums” by Travel + Leisure.
This tour occurs every first Saturday and is free with gallery admission. Meet by the information desk in the Grand Lobby.
First Friday Spotlight Tour
This short, 20-minute tour is narrowly focused on a single theme and is the perfect break from the First Friday action of the Grand Lobby. The tour starts at the information desk. Gallery admission is free on Friday.
Slow Art Tour
The aim of the Slow Art movement is to break with the often frenetic pace of modern life to simply enjoy works of art in a deliberate and unhurried fashion. Slow Art at the Modern invests in this pause with a 30-minute spotlight tour focusing on one work of art.
Slow Art Tours are every third Friday and are free with no registration required.
First Friday at the Modern
Join us for First Friday at the Modern. We invite you to enjoy an evening of art and music.
The first Friday of each month, the Modern and Café Modern team up to bring you live music from the First Friday House Band, and drink specials and tasty light bites in the museum's Grand Lobby from 5 to 8 pm. Invite friends to enjoy a unique opportunity to experience the Modern in the evening.
First Friday at the Modern
Join us for First Friday at the Modern. We invite you to enjoy an evening of art and music.
The first Friday of each month, the Modern and Café Modern team up to bring you live music from the First Friday House Band, and drink specials and tasty light bites in the museum's Grand Lobby from 5 to 8 pm. Invite friends to enjoy a unique opportunity to experience the Modern in the evening.
The Modern and Kimbell Art Museum Member Open House
Members are invited to spend time with two works by the New York–based portraitist Kehinde Wiley, who was named Apollo Magazine’s Artist of the Year in 2021.
See Colonel Platoff on his Charger, 2007, at the Modern, recently installed to complement the Kimbell Art Museum’s new Focus exhibition, SLAY: Artemisia Gentileschi & Kehinde Wiley.
My Old School
“Told through the eyes of his jovial classmates and augmented with whimsical animation and pop music, this fun comic-tragic tale of arrested development unravels to reveal the unexpected legacy Lee left behind with his classmates.” Sheri Sanders, Chicago Reader.
My Donkey, My Lover & I
Antoinette, a schoolteacher, is looking forward to her long-planned summer holiday with her married lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When she learns that Vladimir has to cancel because his wife organized a surprise hiking vacation, Antoinette decides to follow their tracks, accompanied by a protective donkey named Patrick.
97 minutes; French with English subtitles
Fire of Love
Fire of Love tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of our planet by capturing the most explosive volcano imagery ever recorded. Along the way, they changed our understanding of the natural world and saved tens of thousands of lives. Previously unseen hours of pristine 16-millimeter film and thousands of photographs reveal the birth of modern volcanology through an unlikely lens—the love of its two pioneers.