This week Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees count down the top five museums in Texas.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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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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For the second year, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is extending through the summer its Tuesday evening programming (its long-running acclaimed visiting-artist lecture series, organized by Terri Thornton, runs…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on art-world after parties, paintings so heavy they require new walls, and germ factories as art.
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Joyce Pensato’s recent solo show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has come and gone, but given the ongoing and semi-flexible nature of the Modern’s excellent speaker…
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In this age of information static there’s something reassuring about settling into a room full of one artist’s works.
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"we are the anonymous army. cross us and you will fail."
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“Note: these are for museums and non-profits who have released their schedules, or who have updated websites. Hint, Hint.” Rainey Knudson’s picks: 1. Mark Flood: Gratest Hits Contemporary Arts Museum…
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"If there’s not someone in a giant cockroach costume reading Kafka, I’ll be disappointed."
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Vernon Fisher, artist and pillar of the Texas scene (and based in Fort Worth) has a retrospective opening at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles on June 18. Fisher’s work…
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Dallas-based artist/photographer Misty Keasler’s work has been acquired by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and features in its current show Framing Desire, alongside works by international biggies such…
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The longtime, ever-popular lecture series Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) usually only runs through what we think of as the school year.…
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For years, if you missed one or live outside of DFW, you could listen to a podcast of any of the individual lectures from the excellent long-running series, Tuesday Evenings…
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The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Granberry reported last night that the Dallas Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Crow Collection of…
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Tomorrow night (February 24 at 7pm), photography and video will battle it out in a talk at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Curator Andrea Karnes will hold a…
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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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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is participating in the 25th anniversary year of Visual AIDS Day/ A Day With(out) Art by screening a new series of short films…
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Following an Instagram program he admired at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Texas-based photographer Olaf Growald is helping launch a version of the photo-sharing initiative at the…
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That’s the era we live in: No blank walls no matter how desperate or cheap we may be. Are blank walls that bad?
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This Tuesday, March 11 at 7 pm, the editors of the innovative digital magazine Triple Canopy, Alexander Provan and Lucy Ives, will be at the Modern Art Museum of Fort…