Cocktails with the Curator: Mark Bradford End Papers

Modern Contemporaries members (The Modern’s Under-Forty Friends!) are invited to join Michael Auping, former chief curator at the Modern, for a special look at the Museum’s newest exhibition, Mark Bradford: End Papers, which he guest-curated. Enjoy a relaxed evening of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a private, after-hours tour of the exhibition. Members will have the rare opportunity to ask Michael questions in an informal setting to learn more about Mark Bradford, the significance of this body of work, and how it came to be at the Modern. 

Mark Bradford: End Papers

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the exhibition Mark Bradford: End Papers. Curated by Michael Auping, former Chief Curator at the Modern, this exhibition focuses upon the key material and fundamental motif the artist employed early in his career and has returned to periodically over the past two decades.

The Burnt Orange Heresy

Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.


R; 99 minutes

Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Tickets are $10; $8 for Modern members; $7 for Reel People. The Sunday noon show time is half price. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.

Ordinary Love

“Sure, it's sometimes tough going, but the hardship and fear are laced with wit, warmth and a comforting sense of authenticity.” Ed Potton, Times (UK). Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville star in this extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Ordinary Love is a story about love, survival, and the epic questions life throws at each and every one of us.

R; 92 minutes

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

“[Director] Céline Sciamma's work with the actors here reflects an inspired effort - going far beyond costume and décor - to evoke the inner life of the historical period.”Richard Brody, New Yorker.

France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of a young woman who has just left the convent. She is a reluctant bride-to-be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her subject by day to paint her secretly. Céline Sciamma received the award for Best Screenplay at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

The Traitor

“The Traitor is big, bold, confident film-making.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. The Traitor is the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds" and the first mafia informant in Sicily.


R; 145 minutes; Italian with English subtitles

Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Tickets are $10; $8 for Modern members; $7 for Reel People. The Sunday noon show time is half price. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

“Despite some grim ecological statistics and a conservationist message, the movie is so inspirational it feels like the sort of old-fashioned family film that can now be excavated on Disney+.” Elizabeth Weitzman, The Wrap. In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.

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