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The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators and conservators. Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee called The MAN Podcast “one of the great archives of the art of our time.” When the US chapter of the International Association of Art Critics gave host Tyler Green one of its inaugural awards for criticism in 2014, it included a special citation for The MAN Podcast.
Episode No. 593 remembers artist Phyllida Barlow. Barlow died this week. She was 78. Barlow came from an illustrious British family, one thick with Huxleys and Wedgwoods, a royal physician, and one particularly famous Darwin. Instead of joining a parade of ancestors within the British establishment, she devoted her life and career to questioning, u…
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Amalia Mesa-Bains, Transcendental Painting Group
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Episode No. 592 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and curator Michael Duncan. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is presenting "Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory," the first retrospective of the pioneering Chicana artist. The exhibition includes nearly 60 works including fourteen of Mesa-Bains' m…
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Kahlil Robert Irving, Rogelio Báez Vega
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Episode No. 591 features artists Kahlil Robert Irving and Rogelio Báez Vega. Kahlil Robert Irving is included in "I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen" at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Across more than 25,000 square feet, the exhibition examines the screen’s vast impact on art from 1969 to the present. It was curated by Alison Hea…
Episode No. 590 features artist Monique Verdin. It was taped live at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Verdin is included in the Nasher's "Spirit in the Land," an exhibition that considers today’s ecological concerns and demonstrates how our identities and natural environments are intertwined. The show particularly focuses on the relatio…
Episode No. 589 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Rose B. Simpson. Rose B. Simpson is included in two ongoing presentations in New England: her Counterculture is installed at Field Farm, a Trustees property in Williamstown, Mass.; and in "Ceramics in the Expanded Field," at MASS MoCA through April 10. Counterculture was organized by Jamil…
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"Portraits of Resistance," portrait miniatures
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Episode No. 588 features author Jennifer Van Horn and curator Elizabeth Kornhauser. Van Horn is the author of "Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery," which was recently published by Yale University Press. The book investigates American portraiture, a discipline which until recently was dominated by European-American artists and th…
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Mark di Suvero, African Modernism in America
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Episode No. 587 features curators Jed Morse and Perrin Lathrop. Morse is the curator of "Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper" at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The exhibition surveys di Suvero's career with a special focus on di Suvero's in-studio practice, such as his drawings and his little-considered modestly scaled sculptures (which make u…
Episode No. 586 features artist Justine Kurland. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford recently acquired a complete vintage set of Kurland's 69-picture "Girl Pictures" suite (1997-2002) and has installed it in the museum's 1934 Avery Court. (The building is known for having the first international style spaces of any American art museum.) The exhibiti…
Episode No. 585 features artist Matthew Ritchie. The Frist Art Museum in Nashville is presenting "Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood," a survey of the last 20 years of Matthew Ritchie's career. The exhibition shows how Ritchie has brought together biology, physics, creation stories, epic poetry and history across painting, sculpture, video and …
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Vittore Carpaccio, East of the Pacific
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Episode No. 584 features curators Gretchen Hirschauer and Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander. The National Gallery of Art in Washington is presenting "Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice," through February 12. The exhibition was curated by Peter Humfrey in collaboration with Andrea Bellieni and Hirschauer. It presents Carpaccio, a …
After a brief introduction, this episode is a re-air of host Tyler Green's 2014 conversation with artist Michael Snow. Snow died on January 5. He was 94.
Episode No. 583 features artist William Cordova and curator Michelle White. Cordova is featured in "Beyond the Surface: Collage, Mixed Media and Textile Works from the Collection" at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition is on view through May 14. Cordova's work uses a range of media to address and re-make historical narrative…
Episode No. 582 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday clips episode with artist Lari Pittman. Museo Jumex in Mexico City is presenting "Lo que se ve, se pregunta," a retrospective of Pittman's work that descends from a 2019 version of the exhibition that originated at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibition was curated by Connie But…
Episode No. 581 is a holiday clips episode with artist Lari Pittman. Museo Jumex in Mexico City is presenting "Lo que se ve, se pregunta," a retrospective of Pittman's work that descends from a 2019 version of the exhibition that originated at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2019. The exhibition was curated by Connie Butler; the Mexico CIty pre…
Episode No. 580 features artist Sheila Pree Bright. Sheila Pree Bright is included in "Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund," which is at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia through January 8, 2023. The Do Good Fund is a Columbus, Ga.-based charity that collects and makes available to museums…
Episode No. 579 features artist Uta Barth. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is presenting "Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision," a retrospective of Barth's work. For over forty years Barth has made work about the act of looking, perception, movement and the passage of time. The exhibition debuts Barth's newest work: a project commissioned in celebr…
Episode No. 578 features curators Diana Tuite and Allegra Pesenti. Tuite is the curator of "Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine," a retrospective of Thompson's brief but hugely productive career. It is at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles through January 8, 2023. The Hammer's presentation was coordinated by Erin Christovale with Vanessa Arizmendi. An o…
Episode No. 577 is a holiday clips episode featuring author Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gilmore is the author of "Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination," which was just published by the University of North Carolina Press. The book examines how Bearden's address of his native South -- he was born and was initially raised in the Charlotte, …
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Bonus: Darkwater Project 2022 digital colloquium, session six
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Audio from Session Six of The Darkwater Project's 2022 digital colloquium, "Historical American Art, Whiteness, and the Idea of the American Nation." Watch the session on YouTube. Follow The Darkwater Project on Instagram.By The Darkwater Project
Episode No. 576 features photographer Anthony Barboza and curator Maika Pollack. "Eye Dreaming," a monograph spanning Barboza's sixty-year career was just published by Getty Publications. The book comes out just as the two-year, four-venue exhibition "Working Together: Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop," an exhibition which presented Barboza a…
Episode No. 575 features curators Vincenzo de Bellis and Leo Mazow. de Bellis is the curator of the retrospective "Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts," which is at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis through February 26, 2023. Kounellis was a significant figure in the arte povera movement of the 1960s and 1970s whose work was on the vanguard of melding …
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Bonus: Darkwater Project 2022 digital colloquium, session five
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Audio from Session Five of The Darkwater Project's 2022 digital colloquium, "Historical American Art, Whiteness, and the Idea of the American Nation." Watch the session on YouTube. Follow The Darkwater Project on Instagram. Sign up for Session Five (November 17, 3:30 pm ET).By The Darkwater Project
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Cubism and Trompe l’Oeil, Mark Steinmetz
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Episode No. 574 features curator Emily Braun and artist Mark Steinmetz. With Elizabeth Cowling, Braun is the co-curator of "Cubism and the Trompe L'Oeil Tradition" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibition considers cubist works by Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso in the context of the centuries-long trompe l'oeil pai…
Episode No. 573 features artists Matthew Ronay and Jade Doskow. The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas is presenting "Matthew Ronay: The Crack, the Swell, an Earth, an Ode" through January 15, 2023. The exhibition features a nearly 24-foot-long sculpture that functions as both an introduction to Ronay's exploration of surrealism, abstraction, repres…
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Bonus: Darkwater Project 2022 digital colloquium, session four
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Audio from Session Four of The Darkwater Project's 2022 digital colloquium, "Historical American Art, Whiteness, and the Idea of the American Nation." Watch the session on YouTube. Follow The Darkwater Project on Instagram. Sign up for Session Five (November 3, 3:30 pm ET).
