In celebration of William Shakespeare's birthday (and death-day) today, I have a confession to make: every time I walk by...
Posted by Andrea D. on April 6, 2010 - 3:02pm
Categories: On the Walls
The first time I encountered Andy Warhol's "The Last Supper (Christ 112 Times)" (1986), it was not in the galleries of The Modern. It wasn't even...
Posted by Andrea D. on March 25, 2010 - 3:35pm
Categories: On the Walls
Now that "Andy Warhol: The Last Decade" has been at The Modern for a few weeks, I've had the opportunity to take several of my friends on tours through the galleries, where we...
Posted by Andrea D. on March 8, 2010 - 2:49pm
Categories: On the Walls
When you approach the entrance to Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, there's a painting at the top of the stairs where Andy's green fright wig self-portrait used to stand...
Posted by Andrea D. on March 5, 2010 - 4:12pm
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
The most fascinating aspect of Gabriel Acevedo Velarde's "Cone Flow" exhibit is not, in my opinion, the art pieces themselves. It's a strange thing...
Posted by Andrea D. on February 16, 2010 - 2:58pm
Categories: On the Walls
In the early 1940's, a painter by the name of Jackson Pollock began developing a technique that allowed him to spontaneously drip enamel paint onto flat canvases, resulting in...
Posted by Andrea D. on February 5, 2010 - 2:16pm
Categories: On the Walls
Art History class teaches us many well-known facts about Andy Warhol...
Posted by Andrea D. on February 2, 2010 - 2:42pm
Categories: Behind the Walls, On the Walls
A few days ago, we were able to catch up with Andrea Karnes, Curator at the Modern, as she was taking a short break...
Posted by Andrea D. on January 22, 2010 - 1:50pm
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
Admittedly, drawing a correlation between the fluorescent light-fixture art of Dan Flavin and the teachings of one of Greek philosophy's founding...
Posted by Andrea D. on December 23, 2009 - 10:17am
Categories: On the Walls
The holidays are coming. And besides the generic holiday festivities that I'm looking forward to...
Posted by Andrea D. on December 18, 2009 - 10:11am
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
For some reason, I always seem to associate Rosemary Laing's "Groundspeed (Red Piazza) Number 2" with this time of the year...
Posted by Grace on November 19, 2009 - 9:46am
Categories: On the Walls, Within the Walls
While wandering around the museum, enjoying Tado Ando’s architectural design of the building, I couldn’t help but notice...
Posted by Andrea D. on November 4, 2009 - 10:51am
Categories: On the Walls
It is a fact of life that Texans don't immediately associate "horses" with "fine art."
Posted by Andrea D. on October 20, 2009 - 12:29pm
Categories: On the Walls
Last week's Tuesday Evening at the Modern was my first to attend, and will definitely not be my last...
