The Modern: Fort Worth's Art Anchor Since 1892

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is one of the oldest art museums in Texas, founded in eighteen ninety-two. For over a century it operated in borrowed quarters across the city, but in two thousand two it got a permanent home worthy of its collection: a building by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, a series of glass-and-concrete pavilions floating above a reflecting pond. Ando designed it so natural light shifts across the galleries throughout the day.

Inside are more than three thousand works, heavy on postwar American and European art, with Picasso, Rothko, Kiefer, and Serra all represented. It anchors Fort Worth's Cultural District alongside the Kimbell and the Amon Carter, making this one square mile one of the most concentrated museum corridors in the American South.