If you’re about to head into a four-day mini-vacation, you might consider taking advantage of a few museum deals. First, if you are a Bank of America cardholder, you can flash your card and get free admission to the Dallas Museum of Art, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Museum of Nature [...]
QUICK WORK: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth posted a cool time-lapse video of its crew installing four works in a first-floor gallery. The Modern has gone a good job of adding these types of behind-the-scenes looks to its blog. Hopefully more museums will follow the Modern’s lead. DINNER AND A MOVIE: Over on [...]
Sun-sneezers blow light bubbles, 2008, steel, muslin and tamarind kernel powder New art enters museum collections in a variety of ways. At the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, one method is interactive. Patrons who join the Modern’s Director’s Council select one work for purchase from each of the museum’s three annual “FOCUS” shows. Each [...]
I hate this time of year, and if given the opportunity I will spit in your hot chocolate and tell little children there is no Santa Claus. HOWEVER… I am an avid fan of culture on the cheap, and by cheap I mean free. Behold this fine press release: MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH [...]
Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and arts conservationist. I was out early Tuesday picking up some of the items on our Thanksgiving shopping list, items that will soon be transformed into numerous plates and platters of steaming, traditional goodness. The kind of food that after consumption turns even the loudest of [...]
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is a lovely place to see a film. Wednesday night’s screening of Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits brought out a rich mix of die-hard film fans, Fort Worth Modern devotees, KERA members and even a Harvard alumnus who had taken classes with Alcalay in her college days. After the [...]
With the Impressionists at the Kimbell and all the King Tut hooplah taking over the Dallas Museum of Art, you might not have noticed that the other blockbuster exhibition in the area — and one that’s just a leettle more contemporary and risk-taking than the other two — closes this weekend. It’s your last chance [...]
Kara Walker Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and art conservationist. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth was expecting to have a full house for Kara Walker’s lecture Tuesday night, but I was surprised that the allocated 500 seats would not be enough to accommodate even those people standing in line [...]
Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and art conservationist. This Tuesday Sept. 23, Kara Walker will be talking about My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, her landmark exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Over the last few years there have been some really wonderful exhibits in the [...]
KERA radio story: Expanded online story: [UNDER: sounds of museum gallery] At the Dallas Museum of Art, there’s an nkisi nkondi [pronounced en-keesee enkondee]. It’s a wooden statue from the Congo that bristles with iron nails hammered into it. It stands in the Center for Creative Connections, the museum’s new learning center, and there’s a [...]
