Alison Hearst, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator, opens her catalogue essay “Global Village” for the Modern’s I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen with a poignant quote by Cao Fei, an artist featured in Hearst’s timely exhibition. In this opening essay, Hearst acknowledges that Fei “sums up some of the ways that today’s hybrid world overlays so-called reality with a life that is increasingly lived through screens.” With that, Hearst launches her own investigation, celebration, and critique of “art and the digital screen” with an ambitious installation of work by no less than fifty artists who map and illuminate a history that increasingly forms and defines us, serving as a mirror.
For Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, Alison Hearst shares her fascination with the subject matter and planning of the exhibition and reveals her findings through the works of artists who are credited with art’s turn toward the digital and all that it represents, as well as younger artists uncovering new ground in today’s all-consuming digital age.
UPCOMING LECTURES
February 28 – Terrell James, artist
March 7 – Kahlil Irving, artist
March 21 – Kristin Lucas, artist and Paul Slocum, artist, musician, and founder of And/Or Gallery
March 28 – Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist
April 4 – Mendi + Keith Obadike, artists
April 8 – Special Program with Morehshin Allahyari and American Artist, artists
April 11 – Maria Elena Ortiz, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator
LOCATION
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Telephone 817.738.9215
Toll-Free 1.866.824.5566
www.themodern.org
Museum Gallery Hours
Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (before lectures until 6 pm)
Fri 10 am-8 pm
General Admission Prices (includes special exhibition)
$16: General (age 18 and above)
$12: Seniors (age 60+), Active/Retired Military Personnel and First Responders with ID
$10: Students with ID
Free: Under 18 years old
The Museum offers half-price tickets on Sundays and free admission on Fridays.
The Museum is closed Mondays and holidays, including New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas.