 |
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern 2009 Schedule
These lectures in the Modern’s auditorium begin at 7 pm. The Tuesday Evenings series brings artists, scholars, and critics to discuss their work each week at the Modern. Admission is free and open to the public. Free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern’s admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to the first 250 ticketholders. A live broadcast of the lecture will be shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. The Museum galleries and Café Modern will remain open until 7 pm on Tuesdays during the series, (regular gallery admission charge applies).
|
February 10
Walid Raad is a New York-based artist known for mixed-media installations, performance, video and photography, and literary essays. Recognized for conceptual work that addresses the representation of traumatic events and collective history through fictional and factual means, Raad founded The Atlas Group in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of his native Lebanon. For Tuesday Evenings he presents The Loudest Muttering is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive. This mixed-media presentation uses photographic slides, notebook pages, and videotape excerpts as historical artifacts attributed to various sources or characters, such as Dr. Fadl Fakhouri, a leading scholar of Lebanese history; or Souheil Bachar, an ex-hostage. The findings and claims of these figures are inspired by historical circumstances and objects, like the role of the car bomb in the Lebanese wars and existing captivity narratives.
|
February 17
Jeff Elrod is an artist currently living and working in Marfa, Texas where he creates work described by Eleanor Heartney for Art in America as “paintings that look back at the beginning of the last century while incorporating motifs which could only belong to the beginning of this one.” These large, hybrid paintings of shallow spaces, hard-edged shapes, and fields of color that reference twentieth-century abstraction are coupled with computer-generated meandering lines that evoke graffiti or illegible handwriting. They are also the subject of the Modern’s second FOCUS exhibition of the 2008–09 season. This Tuesday Evenings presentation is a valuable and unique opportunity to hear about the work from the artist himself, shortly after FOCUS: Jeff Elrod, curated by Andrea Karnes, opens to the public on February 15.
|
February 24
Mike Smith is a performance and video installation artist working and living in Austin, where he teaches at the University of Texas, and New York. His Class Portraits (1999–), an ongoing annual project, was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Also in 2008, a survey of his career, Mike’s World, began at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin before traveling to the ICA in Philadelphia. In the 1970s Smith created the persona “Mike” which he describes as “the human equivalent of a supermarket generic brand.” This somewhat pathetic but lovable underdog persona is the driving force behind a comedic video and performance series that has brought Smith significant recognition and notoriety. It is work that often reveals great truths in its bland presentation of the “everyman.” For Tuesday Evenings Smith shares his experiences with “Mike” and more in his presentation A Night with Mike.
|
|
|
|
Tuesday Evening Cocktails and Light Bites
Guests can enjoy refreshments from 5 to 7 pm in Café Modern before the Tuesday Evenings lecture series. Choose from Café Modern’s unique Modern cocktail menu or distinctive wine list. Coffee, tea, and light snacks are also available.
|
|
