The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,in conjunction with the Andy Warhol: The Last Decade and FOCUS: Ben Jones exhibitions, presents our sixth Modern ’til Midnight event Saturday, April 10 from 6 p.m. to midnight. The community will enjoy everything The Modern has to offer during our extended hours including live music from well-known artists, films, gallery activities, and late-night fare from Café Modern. Dress like your favorite 80’s celebrity if you are in the mood! Check the Modern’s Facebook page for contest details.
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All aboard for the Dallas Art News Museum Express Tour. The tour will visit eight Dallas and Fort Worth museums in one day using the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (The T), Trinity Railway Express (TRE) and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) as transportation between the institutions. The Dallas Art News Museum Express Tour will visit the Amon Carter Museum, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Meadows Museum, Nasher Sculpture Center and The Women’s Museum. The tour starts at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2010, when all tourists gather for a coffee kick-off at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.
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Fort Worth artist Billy Hassell will present a gallery talk in the Kimbell Art Museum’s “Artist’s Eye” series on Saturday, March 6, at 11 a.m. The Kimbell’s curator for Asian and non-Western art, Jennifer Casler Price, will moderate this free program.
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Invite your friends to listen to live jazz and sip a cool cocktail in the beautiful setting of the Kimbell Art Museum at “After Hours at the Kimbell” on Saturday, March 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The event features music by Los Noviembres, docent tours, gift giveaways, light hors d’oeuvres, and a cash bar (featuring this month’s signature cocktail—the “Hawaiian Sea Breeze,” plus wine and beer).
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Fort Worth Community Arts Center, with the help of Carter BloodCare, is hosting a special patient blood drive benefitting Elaine Taylor! Elaine has been a regular blood donor for many years but due to recent surgery, which she has made an excellent recovery from, she will not be able to give as much as she has in the past. Let’s help donate what she can’t!
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Richard R. Brettell, the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Texas at Dallas, will present a free lecture titled “Reflections on Collecting in Texas” on Friday, March 5, at 6 p.m. in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium.
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Dallas Art News is starting a webcomic section that will feature a new art related webcomic each week. We are inviting all established webcomic artists to participate via our Guest Webcomic Artist Program.
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An exciting afternoon of free hands-on activities and classical guitar performances by Christopher McGuire awaits families at the Kimbell Art Museum’s Free Family Festival, Saturday, February 20, from 1 to 4 p.m.
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Joseph D. Ketner II is currently the Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence, at Emerson College, a position that follows his post as the chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum where he organized Andy Warhol: the Last Decade.
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Christopher Lloyd, former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, The Royal Collection, UK, will present a free lecture titled Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasts in Royal Patronage on Friday, February 26, at 6 p.m. in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium.
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The 2nd Annual Funky Finds Spring Fling is an indie art & craft fair to be held on March 13 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The event will feature the work of over 120 artists, crafters & designers from various states. The first 50 attendees to purchase a minimum of five $1.00 raffle tickets will receive a hand-crafted swag bag full of goodies. All raffle proceeds benefit the Humane Society of North Texas & CASA of Tarrant County. Live music by Tahni Handal of Austin, Texas. The FREE indoor event is family & pet-friendly!
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In a small, square room on the second floor of the Amon Carter Museum lies the only space specifically allotted for photo exhibitions. On the walls of the finite space lies an infinite exploration through American life via Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture. Judging from the title of the exhibition, some might expect a display of portraits of movie stars and celebutantes from decades past, but instead viewers are taken (swiftly) through American history, as far back as the 1800s.
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The Amon Carter Museum has acquired a rediscovered painting by American artist George de Forest Brush. The Potter, painted in 1889, had been in private hands since 1946, when it was sold from the collection of the Galveston financier William L. Moody III.
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Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey exhibition to explore the work that this seminal American artist produced during the final eight years of his life. Warhol entered a period of renewed vigor and enthusiasm in the 1980s that resulted in what was arguably the most productive period of his career.
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This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, scholars, and critics at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth is free and open to the public. To assure seating, free admission tickets are available at the Modern’s admission desk beginning at 5 p.m. on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. and is limited to 250. A live broadcast of the lectures is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Lectures begin at 7 p.m. The Museum galleries and the café remain open until 7 p.m. on Tuesday evenings during the series.
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