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TUESDAY EVENINGS AT THE MODERN SPRING 2007 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. The spring series begins February 4 and ends April 17. 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 6 – Ralf Ziervogel, an exciting young artist from Berlin whose work is the subject of the Modern's FOCUS exhibition February 4 through April 8, excavates his giant drawing Real Estate in this presentation by the same title.
February 13 – Andrea Karnes, Modern curator, expands on her exhibition Pretty Baby by presenting the provocative history of the image of the child in art for Tuesday Evenings at the Modern.
February 20 – Ryan Humphrey an artist based in New York who combines cultural signifiers of his youth with art historically significant principles and practices, presents his work and some recent excursions in this Tuesday Evenings presentation.
February 27 – James Hayward, an artist based in Los Angeles who has devoted the past thirty years to Monochrome painting and who lives by the maxim "No risk, no paint," shares his convictions in a presentation of his categorically luscious paintings.
March 6 – Nikki S. Lee, born Lee Seung-Hee, is an artist based in New York and Seoul, Korea, who has developed an international reputation by assuming various identities to effectively infiltrate a variety of subcultures and ethnic group. For Tuesday Evenings, Lee screens her sixty-minute film, a.k.a. Nikki S. Lee, followed by thirty minutes of Q & A. (a.k.a. Nikki S. Lee, 2006, is courtesy of Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.)
March 13 – no lecture
March 20 – Mike Womack, an artist based in Brooklyn, adopts principles of technology with a nuts-and-bolts approach, eliciting active viewing with art that changes as vantage points shift. For Tuesday Evenings, Womack shares his fascination for how things work physically and conceptually in his presentation Lo-fi.
March 27 – Anna Gaskell is an artist based in New York known for haunting photographs that suggest the narrative structure of film. Featured in the Modern's exhibition Pretty Baby, Gaskell discusses her various photographic series, which are described by Francis Richards in Artforum as "quasi-Freudian hothouses in which every symbol is loaded."
April 3 – Lance Fung, an exciting independent curator who has been praised for his ambitious 2006 Snow Show, is currently organizing the first international, large-scale exhibition of public installations in Beijing, China, for the Summer Olympics and has recently been announced as the curator for SITE Santa Fe's 2008 biennial exhibition.
April 10 – Barnaby Furnas is an artist based in Brooklyn whose work is presented in the Modern's FOCUS exhibition April 15 through June 10. For Tuesday Evenings, Furnas presents his phenomenal narrative paintings, in which he takes on grand themes of life and death while skillfully negotiating the history of painting.
April 17 – Jim Hodges, based in New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts, is renowned for his poetic presentation of the everyday in works that are philosophically grand yet intimate in their materials and presentation. For Tuesday Evenings, Hodges presents his impeccably crafted and thoughtfully considered installations and public works.
Tuesday Evening Cocktails and Light Bites
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CAFÉ MODERN
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