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Article: New Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Opens to Visitors.
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- December 15, 2002
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By Selwyn Crawford, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 15--FORT WORTH, Texas-Levi Swinney was excited about being among the first official visitors Saturday to the new Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
But Mr. Swinney, of Fort Worth, didn't come for the paintings by Pablo Picasso or Andy Warhol. He wasn't even pulled in by Michelangelo Pistoletto's The Etruscan or Ron Mueck's exquisitely detailed Seated Woman. In fact, Mr. Swinney wasn't there for the artwork at all.
"I came for the building," said Mr. Swinney, a senior architecture student at the University of Texas at Arlington who said he was awed by the ...