The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Receives Grand Lawncare Award
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Landscape Partners have received the Grand Award for the Modern’s landscaping in the 2012 Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET). The Grand Award, the highest within the program, recognizes the Modern’s campus on a national scale as a top commercial landscape, [...]
Fort Worth Modern Turns Ten, Opens Presents at Party in December
The Fort Worth Modern is celebrating ten years in its fancy Tadao Ando building by acquiring some big, fancy new art: Wall Drawing #50A, 1970, by Sol Lewitt consists of hundreds of hand-drawn lines in colored pencil (red, yellow, and blue) stretching across a large wall, overlapping each other, and measuring approximately 11×16 feet; a [...]
Texas Art Travel: Fort Worth
If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five renowned museums lined up right next to each other. Designed by a stellar roster of blue chip architects, including Pritzker Prize winners Philip Johnson and Tadao Ando, each building has [...]
Adam Silverman’s “Reverse Archaeology” for the Kimbell Art Museum
After studying and practicing architecture in the 80s and 90s, working in the clothing industry and studying business management, Adam Silverman couldn’t ignore his deep leanings toward ceramics anymore, a hobby he’d practiced since high school. By 2002, it was time to go all in. Silverman threw off all of his other hats to become [...]