FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 11, 2015
Fort Worth, TX
Kendal Smith Lake
Manager of Communications
817.840.2167
www.themodern.org

 
TUESDAY EVENINGS AT THE MODERN
 LECTURE SERIES
Fall 2015 Schedule, plus Special Presentation

This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public each Tuesday from September 15 through November 10 (excluding September 22), with an additional lecture on December 8. Visit www.themodern.org/programs/lectures for more information on each talk.

 

Lectures begin at 7 pm in the Museum's auditorium. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250; a live broadcast of the presentations is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Free admission tickets (limit two) are available at the Modern's information desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. The museum galleries remain open until 7 pm on Tuesday evenings during the series (general admission applies). 

 

Café Modern serves cocktails, salads, and appetizers on Tuesday nights during the lecture series.   

 

Revisit the insightful lectures from Tuesday Evenings or discover new ways to look at works in the Museum's collection with the Modern Podcasts. Hear artists speak about their work, or listen to curators' perspectives and discussions. Visit www.themodern.org/podcasts or subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes or using the RSS feed in your preferred program.

 

 

SCHEDULE   

 

September 15 - Kehinde Wiley, the artist featured in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, is in conversation with the exhibition curator, Eugenie Tsai of the Brooklyn Museum.

 

September 29 - LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, a poet, sound artist, and author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013), who contributed to the Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic catalogue, expands on her presentation delivered this June for the 16th Poesiefestival in Berlin.

 

October 6 - Andria Hickey, Curator at the Public Art Fund where she has curated exhibitions throughout New York City with artists such as Danh Vō, Katharina Grosse, and Oscar Tuazon, discusses curating in the public realm and its relationship to sculpture today.

 

October 13 - In conjunction with Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, the Modern screens Sans Soleil, a meditation on the nature of memory in an essay-like format composed of thoughts, images, and scenes from different parts of the world by the artist and filmmaker Chris Marker.

 

October 20 - Randy Brown, FAIA, in conjunction with the 2015 Fort Worth AIA Design Awards, presents the ideas and work of Randy Brown Architects, based in Omaha, Nebraska, and known for an approach to architecture that meshes modern design with an appreciation for the land and lifestyle of its region.

 

October 27 - Charles Gaines, a Los Angeles-based artist and longstanding professor at California Institute of the Arts, investigates how rule-based procedures produce meaning. He is currently represented in the Venice Biennale by two major new series that bring texts, drawings, and music together to address issues of social justice. For his lecture, he shares ideas that have informed his long and influential career.

 

November 3 - Valerie Hegarty, a Brooklyn-based artist who creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that often address themes of memory, place, and history-such as "Alternative Histories," her 2013 intervention in the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum-shares her work and experiences in the lecture "Valerie Hegarty: Reverse Archeology, the Creation of Decay and Other Uncanny Transformations." 

 

November 10 - Lauren Woods,a conceptual artist whose hybrid media projects-film, video and sound installations, public interventions, and site-specific work-engage history as a lens through which to view the sociopolitical nature of the present, shares her work.

 

A Special Lecture on Tuesday, December 8, 7 pm

Sally Mann, one of America's most renowned photographers, presents her highly acclaimed and much-anticipated book Hold Still,recently published by Little, Brown. Come early for a book signing at 6 pm.

 


The Tuesday Evenings at the Modern lecture series is made possible in part by a grant from the Web Maddox Trust.


LOCATION

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

3200 Darnell Street

Fort Worth, Texas 76107

Telephone 817.738.9215

Toll-Free 1.866.824.5566

Fax 817.735.1161

www.themodern.org

 

Museum Gallery Hours

Tue 10 am-7 pm (Jun-Jul, Sep-Nov, Feb-Apr)

Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm

Fri 10 am-8 pm

 

General Admission Prices

(includes special exhibitions)

$4 for students with ID and seniors (60+)

$10 for adults (13+)

Free for children 12 and under

Free for Modern members

Free every Sunday in 2015 and half-price every Wednesday.

 

CAFÉ MODERN
Lunch 

Tue-Fri 11 am-2:30 pm
Brunch 

Sat-Sun 10 am-3 pm
Dinner 

Fri 5-8:30 pm
Coffee, snacks, and dessert

10 am-4:30 pm

 

The Museum is closed Monday and holidays including New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas.

 
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