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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Modern ’til Midnight
Friday, October 17, 6 pm–midnight
This event is presented in conjunction with the special exhibitions Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love and Hubbard/Birchler: No Room to Answer. This is the last weekend to view the Kara Walker exhibition which closes on October 19. Hubbard/Birchler is on view through January 4. Tickets will be available at the door or can be purchased in advance; call 817.738.9215 or visit the museum admission desk.
Modern ’til Midnight returns October 17 with a night of world-class art and unique performances. Experience the art with tours and gallery projects designed to engage and entertain by providing imaginative ways in which to connect with the artists’ creations. Find your favorite spot outside in our sculpture garden, sit and relax, in time for our first band, Baby Dee at 7 pm, followed by Stumptone, Telegraph Canyon, Mount Righteous, Dove Hunter and our headliner, Mucca Pazza. The bands will perform on stage and in the crowd!
In the Modern auditorium, The Lone Star International Film Festival will present the Best of Fest: 2007 featuring a few choice selections from last year’s festival program that you may have missed or must see again. Screenings will take place beginning at 8 pm. (Titles will be announced at a later date.) Have a bite to eat at Café Modern or on the Café Terrace and make time for late-night shopping, and music from DJ Who?, and friends in the lobby.
Café Modern and Lobby Bar
KARA WALKER: MY COMPLEMENT, MY ENEMY, MY OPPRESSOR, MY LOVE
The first full-scale American museum survey of the work of Kara Walker is organized by Philippe Vergne, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator, at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in close collaboration with the artist. My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love features works ranging from Walker’s signature black cut-paper silhouettes to film animations to more than one hundred works on paper.
Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained national and international recognition for her room-size tableaux depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation through the genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War, Walker’s compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses, slaves, women, and children enact a subverted version of the past.
HUBBARD/BIRCHLER: NO ROOM TO ANSWER
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Curator Andrea Karnes present an exhibition of photographs and videos by the collaborative team of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, their first major survey in an American museum.
The Swiss/American artist duo Teresa Hubbard (born 1965 in Dublin, Ireland) and Alexander Birchler (born 1962 in Baden, Switzerland) live and work in Austin, Texas. In a career of more than fifteen years, they have become known for their picturesque, color-saturated photographic series and their deliberately slow-paced video installations, which feature slow pan shots, endless loops, and puzzling plot lines. Starting with their early staged photographs, No Room to Answer presents key works from 1991 to 2008. Their most recent video, Grand Paris Texas, 2008, which debuts with this exhibition, was commissioned by the Modern Art Museum and will become part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
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