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CANCELLED Fort Worth, TX | Curator-Led Tour of Surrealism & Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940
July 18 | 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm
Join ArtTable Fellowship alum María Elena Ortiz, Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, on a private tour of her current exhibition. Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940, on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth until July 28. As the Modern’s first exhibition exploring art of the Caribbean and the African diaspora from an intergenerational perspective, Surrealism and Us includes more than 80 works dating from the 1940s through the present, exploring the history of Caribbean Surrealism, the Affrosurreal in American art, and global interpretations of modernism.
Exploring themes developed in Suzanne Césaire’s essay “1943: Surrealism and Us,” Ortiz’s exhibition features a multi-media selection of work by Belkis Ayón, Firelei Báez, Romare Bearden, Nick Cave, Aimé Césaire, Hew Locke, Kerry James Marshall, Ana Mendieta, Wangechi Mutu, Naudline Pierre, Betye Saar, Kara Walker, and other artists who examined the histories of Black resistance and the European avant-garde for their own creative purposes.
Admission:
- ArtTable Members – $20
- Member Guests – $25
- Public – $30
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