Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth evolved from its original founding in 1892 through several name changes and locations in the Texan city of Fort Worth . His current tasks are to collect, exhibit and interpret international developments in the art of the time after the Second World War in all their forms .
Structure and location
The museum building was opened to the public in 2002. The architect is the Japanese Tadao Andō . The buildings are five elongated pavilions that are reflected in a water surface in front of them.
The museum is part of a cultural district of the city that also houses two other museums, the Kimbell Art Museum by architect Louis I. Kahn and the Amon Carter Museum , designed by Philip Johnson .
Exhibition space and collection
The more than 2,600 works by post-war artists owned by the museum are shown on an exhibition space of around 4,900 m². These include, among many others, works by Pablo Picasso , Anselm Kiefer , Robert Motherwell , Jackson Pollock , Gerhard Richter , Susan Rothenberg , Richard Serra , Andres Serrano , Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol .
Special exhibitions
The museum also has areas where special exhibitions on the area of collection are regularly shown.
- 2012: Lucian Freud . Portraits .
- 2015: Focus: Mario Garcia Torres .
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Coordinates: 32 ° 44 ′ 57.4 " N , 97 ° 21 ′ 47" W.