Frances Stark
Frances Stark, an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Los Angeles, gives a brief overview of the evolving role of reading and the page in her work over the past 25 years, in conjunction with the Modern’s FOCUS: Frances Stark.
Edith Devaney
Edith Devaney, formerly the modern and contemporary curator at the Royal Academy of Arts and the curator of the major retrospective at the Modern Milton Avery, presents “Milton Avery: An Introduction.”
Hubbard-Birchler Interview
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler’s Flora and Bust create a narrative that interweaves documentary with reenactment to present the untold story of Flora Mayo (1898–1972), an American woman who moved to Paris in the 1920s to pursue her career as an artist.
The Capote Tapes
Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New York’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked the downfall of the iconic author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood. Through never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote’s famous friends and infamous enemies, The Capote Tapes reveals the rise and fall of one of America’s most influential writers and public figures.
98 minutes
Sean Scully with Timothy Rub
For this special Tuesday Evenings event, Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the organizer of this exhibition, is in conversation with the artist.