Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has evolved from an original founding in 1892 through several name changes and locations in the Texas city of Fort Worth. His tasks today are to gain international developments in the art of the period after the Second World War, in all its forms, exhibit and interpret.

Building and location

The museum building was opened to the public in 2002. Architect Tadao Ando, the Japanese. The buildings are five elongated pavilions, which are reflected in a preceding water surface.

The museum is part of a cultural district of the city of Fort Worth, in which there are two other museums, the Kimbell Art Museum by the architect Louis I. Kahn and the Amon Carter Museum, designed by Philip Johnson.

Exhibition space and collection

At about 4,900 m² of exhibition space, more than 2,600 works of post-war artists are shown, which are in the possession of the museum. For this purpose, 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

The museum also owns land on which there are special exhibitions the collection area regularly.

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