Mendi + Keith Obadike

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

Kristin Lucas and Paul Slocum

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)

Kahlil Robert Irving

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.

Modern by Moonlight | Otsukimi Festival 2023

Modern by Moonlight | Otsukimi Festival
September 16, 7-10 pm
(Adult Event, Age 16+)

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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Paper Tigers

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.

Best of Enemies

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.

Past Lives

Past Lives feels so deliciously restrained that it makes even quiet dramas seem histrionic. And yet it’s a wide emotional field that gives its characters room to breathe ...

The Miracle Club

Set in 1967 in the rough-and-tumble Dublin neighborhood of Ballygar, three close friends’ (Maggie Smith, Agnes O’Casey, and Kathy Bates) dream of winning a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. With a little benevolent interference from their priest, and an unexpected traveling companion (Laura Linney), they take a journey in search of a miracle.
PG-13, 91 minutes