Valerie Hegarty

Valerie Hegarty is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that often address themes of memory, place, and history. Her site-specific 2012 exhibition Alternative Histories, in which Hegarty “activated” the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum, exemplifies her work. In an article on the show by Benjamin Sutton for Blouin Artinfo, the artist explained, “This is really setting a movie scene, the way you have to think about the framing in here, like framing a painting.

Politics of the Anthropocene. Humans, Things and Reification in Contemporary Art Presented by Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud (b. 1965) is a French curator, writer, art critic, and author of theoretical essays on contemporary art.  Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art at Tate Britain, London, where he curated The Tate Triennial: Altermodern (2009). He co-founded and was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from 1999 to 2006.

Weeks 2 and 3 with Carlos Don Juan

For our next two Sundays with Dallas-based artist and educator Carlos Don Juan, T/AP students continued to develop their masks and integrate them into a large backdrop painting. Students were grouped into pairs, leading to conversations, creative negotiations, and an opportunity to collaborate and familiarize themselves with their peers.

The content that found its way into the backdrop paintings included Jules de Balincourt references, neon skylines, iPhone screensavers, and pine trees.

Turtle Creek Chorale

Turtle Creek Chorale in the Grand Lobby

Preview of the holiday season concert HOME. Admission is free to the performance at the Modern. Tickets are not necessary.
"During the holidays, sometimes the only place you want to be is home.  It's the place you find love, acceptance and joy.  It can also be the place that drives you mad -- which we'll examine.  But, in the end, there's no place like home for the holidays."

Magnolia at the Modern Film Schedule November 13-December 20

For Immediate Release
October 19, 2015
Fort Worth, TX

Andria Hickey

“The Public Object: On Sculpture and Thingness in Public Space”
What makes an object a sculpture? What makes a thing recognizable as art? How does the public realm shape these questions differently than the white cube?

Harold Steward

Sundays with the Modern offers unique perspectives on the Museum’s current exhibitions. Artists, art historians, critics, writers, and architects hold conversations and lead tours in the galleries. This special program is free and begins at 1 pm on the first Sunday of selected month

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