When patrons walk into the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth this fall, they won\u2019t be exploring a new special exhibition focused on one artist. Instead, they\u2019ll see the museum\u2019s permanent collection captured in the spotlight for nearly a year.<\/p>\n
Starting Oct. 31, the museum will showcase its catalog of modern and contemporary art in \u201cIn the Making: Stories from the Collection<\/a>.\u201d The self-proclaimed evolving exhibition will feature 10 stories \u2014 effectively mini-exhibits \u2014 that change over the course of its run to showcase the museum\u2019s collection of more than 2,500 artworks dating from 1945 to today.<\/p>\n The exhibition will be on view through Aug. 15, 2027.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the Making\u201d sets the stage for celebrating the 25th anniversary<\/a> of the Modern\u2019s Cultural District building in December 2027. The world-renowned minimalist concrete museum was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.<\/p>\n Director Halona Norton-Westbrook said the Modern is looking back to celebrate the past while looking forward to its future.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough this exhibition, we are excited to offer our community an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the artworks in our collection as well as an appreciation of the vibrant spirit that has built this incredible museum,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n A broader focus on the collection is one of Norton-Westbrook\u2019s primary goals. She joined the museum last July after longtime director Marla Price\u2019s retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Norton-Westbrook previously told the Fort Worth Report that the museum\u2019s curatorial team worked too frequently in a cycle of planning seasonal exhibitions.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not giving enough space to the permanent collection, so (we\u2019re) adjusting the balance of how often we do that,\u201d she said in August 2025<\/a>. \u201cWe also want to support our curators by giving them a longer runway of planning and conceiving.\u201d<\/p>\n In the weeks leading up to the exhibition\u2019s opening, the Modern will transform its lobby into a free, public studio for The Sculpture Project<\/a>. Starting Sept. 29, visitors of all ages can build their own sculptures from materials provided.<\/p>\n The Modern\u2019s current special exhibition, \u201cRashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers<\/a>,\u201d closes Sunday.<\/p>\n David Moreno is the arts and culture reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at david.moreno@fortworthreport.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Fort Worth Report\u2019s arts and culture coverage is supported in part by the Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation and the Virginia Hobbs Charitable Trust. At the Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This article<\/a> first appeared on Fort Worth Report<\/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When patrons walk into the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth this fall, they won\u2019t be exploring a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-447432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}