FORT WORTH, UNITED STATES - Dec 29, 2018: Roxy Paine Trees at Fort Worth Modern Art Museum  The stainless steel is bent into lifelike shapes  Also The museum and reflecting pond

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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Fort Worth


In a stunning building across from the Kimbell Art Museum, this stimulating museum displays paintings by the likes of Picasso, Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon, as well as sculptures including Anselm Kiefer’s lead-wrought Book with Wings and Martin Puryear’s soaring wooden Ladder for Booker T Washington.

Its artful restaurant, Café Modern, seems to float on the water of the surrounding reflective pools.


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