Simmons’ work spans decades now, and reverberates with the politics of feminism and Simmons’ poignant and focused scrutiny of gender roles — both from intentional observations, and as a result of politics catching up to her photographs.
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced the guests for the spring season of its longtime acclaimed lecture series, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, which kicks off on February…
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Keasler took a deep breath and dove into this esoteric and unlikely subculture with her eyes and lens wide open.
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On Sunday, August 13 at 11 a.m., DFW artist/musicians Bruce Blay, Gregory Ruppe and Danny Skinner will perform a sound-based interpretation of Doug Aitken’s current retrospective at the Modern Art Museum…
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This morning Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s director Marla Price announced the retirement this summer of Chief Curator Michael Auping. Auping has been with the museum since 1993. Prior to…
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Aitken's work is uneven, and the Fort Worth show drives that point home. It’s a show I want to like more than I do.
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Every season the lecture series Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (at the Modern at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) hosts at least a few international bona-fide bigwigs that…
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Culture Hole, the strange and nifty underground vault within the Power Station (Dallas) that’s become an art space curated by artists Gregory Ruppe and Jeff Gibbons, is holding one of its…
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced its speaker schedule for the upcoming spring season for its acclaimed Tuesday Evenings at the Modern series. Curated by the Modern’s Curator…
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The fact that these explorations into the human condition are already the subject of his source material appears to have escaped the imagination of the artist.
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For four days in mid-September, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is hosting a continuous marathon reading of the entirety of Moby-Dick, arguably the greatest American novel. The reading…
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There is going to be a ton of projected art in Texas this weekend! The Aurora Picture Show is putting on its free-for-all BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) at Houston’s…
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I’m increasingly convinced that too much contemporary art making is becoming cultic and pseudo-religious.
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"Birds sing in the tree, but they don’t need to learn how to, right?"
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As we are all well aware, Tom Sachs– the New York-based MacGyver/MacGruber of the art world– has essentially taken over Austin for a spate, but on March 17, he comes…
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Not because they were better painters or the paintings were better, but because of who and what they were, when they lived, what they ate, how they dressed, how they sat. All these things… .
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Following yesterday’s news about Austin’s Museum Day comes news of Fort Worth’s similar initiative, now in its ninth year, called a Day in the District (meaning FW’s Art District). This family-friendly…
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I have followed Glenn Ligon’s work over the past twenty years. He’s not known for his subtlety. In fact, he deliberately provokes his viewers. Given that his work examines race,…
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The Fort Worth Modern is laying out the welcome mat for graduate students in art and art history, offering free admission and backstage access to visiting artists and lecturers in…
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No need to panic when you turn the corner of the second floor gallery at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and discover Melissa Miller‘s epic painting The Ark…