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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.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 10m
Clare Rojas, "Rooted in Place"
Episode No. 781 features artist Clare Rojas and curator Hillary Olcutt. The Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art is presenting "Clare Rojas: Returning" a survey of 60 works the Ohio-born Rojas has made mostly over the last decade. It particularly spotlights works Rojas has made that examine the cyclical nature of life. "Rojas" was curated by Katherine Brodbeck and is on view through February 7, 2027. Rojas' distinct visual language is equally comfortable presenting figurative scenes and minimal abstract compositions that feature symbology and fantasy. Her pictures often engage with fauna and Peruvian mythology. Rojas' work has been included in exhibitions at museums such as SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, San Francisco, The Contemporary Austin, and more. This is her most significant museum solo show to date. As discussed on the program: Peggy Honeywell discography (Rojas' musician alter ego); Clare Rojas wallpapers. Olcutt is the curator of "Rooted in Place: California Native Art" at the de Young Museum, San Francisco. The presentation, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's reimagining of its Arts of Indigenous America galleries, is the first in a series of exhibitions that highlights specific regions of Native California. This first installation looks at art from northwestern California, home to the Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tolowa, Tsnungwe, and Wiyot communities. It's on view through June 6, 2027. Instagram: Clare Rojas, Tyler Green. Air date: October 22, 2026.
- 2 weeks ago1h 19m
John Constable, Bruce Nauman
Episode No. 780 features curator Edward Town and author Tim Barringer, and curator Leigh Arnold. The Yale Center for British Art is presenting Town's "John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined" through July 25, 2027. The exhibition examines Constable's open-air paintings, pictures which helped transform European landscape painting, and which had significant impacts on United States painters too. "Constable" features works such as cloud studies, oil sketches, and two of Constable's vaunted six-footers, including YCBA's own Hadleigh Castle, one of the most iconic works of English landscape painting. It is the only major US exhibition of Constable's work on the 250th anniversary of his birth. The exhibition is accompanied by Barringer's Constable, the third installment in YCBA's Collection Series. The book includes a contribution from Nicholas Robbins. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for $35-37. Arnold is the curator of "Bruce Nauman: Identical" at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The exhibition features a group of polyurethane, silicone rubber, and plaster-cast animal forms, alongside a rotating selection of drawings and a 3D video, made from elements that the artist had in his New Mexico studio. It is on view through March 21, 2027. Instagram: Edward Town, Tim Barringer, Leigh Arnold, Tyler Green. Air date: October 15, 2026.
- 3 weeks ago50 min
Holiday clips: Stacy Kranitz
Episode No. 779 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday weekend clips show featuring artist Stacy Kranitz. This week Terrible Baby Books is publishing Kranitz's Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, a new book that examines the evolving representation of the Appalachian mountaineer, tracing how poverty in the region has been constructed, challenged, and reimagined over time. Work in the book will be exhibited this fall at the Biennale Images Vevey in Vevey, Switzerland, The Contemporary Dayton, in Dayton, Ohio, and at The Gallatin Galleries, New York University. Ain't No Grave is available from Terrible Baby for $70. Kranitz's work, primarily made in the southern Appalachian Mountains, presents the complexity and instability of a rugged region on which industry has preyed. Her work is in the collection of museums such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Harvard Art Museums, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her sold-out 2022 book As it Was Give(n) to Me was published by Twin Palms and was shortlisted for a Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award. This episode was taped in 2023 when Kranitz was included in "A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845" at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The exhibition considered the South as a forger of American identity and examines how Southern photographers have contributed to both the advance of their medium, and the US project. It was curated by Gregory J. Harris and Sarah Kennel. For images and links to images, please see Episode No. 620. Instagram: Stacy Kranitz, Tyler Green. Air date: October 8. 2026.
- 4 weeks ago59 min
Celeste Rapone
Episode No. 778 features artist Celeste Rapone. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Atrium Project: Celeste Rapone" in the museum's two-story entrance space through Jun 20, 2027. The presentation was organized by Jamillah James with Korina Hernandez. Rapone's work centers domesticity, intimacy, and daily life, particularly as experienced by women. She has been included in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and the Georgia Museum of Art; her work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (promised). Instagram: Celeste Rapone, Tyler Green. Air date: October 1, 2026.
- Sep 24, 202637 min
Jitish Kallat
Episode No. 777 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Jitish Kallat. The Menil Drawing Institute is presenting "Wall Drawing: Series: Jitish Kallat" through August 8, 2027. For the exhibition Kallat has produced a site-specific wall drawing that grows out of his years-long engagement with Project A119, a partly declassified 1958 US Air Force plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The drawing Kallat has made for the MDI, Wall Drawing / Redux: A119, presents enlarged images derived from Kallat's 2025 Accordion of Drawings / Project A119 / Early Intuitions, in which watercolors evoke an unrealized Cold War story of ambition, secrecy, and the exporting of global violence to the moon. The presentation was curated by Edouard Kopp. Kallat's work often blends the intimate and specific and the immense, and references history, science, time, and philosophy. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Tate Modern, London, and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and he has participated in biennials in Venice, Gwangju, Havana, and more. Instagram: Jitish Kallat, Tyler Green. Air date: September 24, 2026.
- Sep 17, 20261h 38m
Mark Thomas Gibson, O'Keeffe and architecture
Episode No. 776 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mark Thomas Gibson and curator Ben Colman. The Tang Museum at Skidmore College is presenting "Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are a Constellation," a survey of Gibson's recent considerations of US history and the relationship between our past and our present. The exhibition was curated by Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist and is on view through January 3, 2027. Gibson's work is also featured in "The Crossing: Picturing the American Revolution" at the Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Penn. "The Crossing" looks at how artists have represented Continental Army commander-in-chief George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776. "The Crossing" is particularly interested in how artists have built on and often 'refuted' Emanuel Leutze's famed 1851 Washington Crossing the Delaware, which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition, which was curated by Laura Igoe, is up through January 10, 2027. An exhibition of Gibson's recent work opens at Philadelphia's Fleisher/Ollman Gallery tomorrow, and remains on view through November 7. Among the institutions that have presented solo shows of Gibson's work are the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Colman is the curator of "Georgia O'Keeffe: Architecture" at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Across about 35 paintings, the exhibition examines O'Keeffe's career-long interest in buildings and the built environment. It's on view through January 3, 2007. The DIA has published a catalogue that is available from Amazon and Bookshop for $32-34. Instagram: Mark Thomas Gibson, Ben Colman, Tyler Green. Air date: September 17, 2026.
- Sep 10, 20261h 23m
Richard J. Powell, Odilon Redon
Episode No. 775 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features art historian Richard J. Powell and curator Danielle Canter. Powell is the author of "Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect," which was just published by Princeton University Press. The book examines the historical and cultural work color does in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, Hervé Télémaque, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Nina Chanel Abney. The book builds on Powell's 2022 National Gallery of Art Mellon Lectures of the same title. Bookshop and Amazon offer "Colorstruck!" from $46-61. Powell's Mellon Lectures may be viewed here. Powell, a professor at Duke University, is the author of numerous books, including "Going There: Black Visual Satire," "Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture," and "Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson." Canter is the curator of "Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions" at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The exhibition spotlights Redon's works on paper, including charcoal drawings, lithographs, and pastels. It particularly focuses on Redon's fantastical world of tonal and psychological darkness, and also his luminous color. It's on view through October 18. A Getty-published catalogue is available from Bookshop and Amazon for $25. Instagram: Richard J. Powell, Tyler Green. Air date: September 10, 2026.
- Sep 3, 202658 min
Summer clips: Edmonia Lewis
Episode No. 774 is a summer clips episode featuring curators Shawnya L. Harris and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll. Harris and Richmond-Moll are the curators of "Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone" at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. The exhibition presents the life and work of nineteenth-century Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis in the context of her contemporaries and artists she may have influenced. It is on view through January 3, 2027. A valuable catalogue was published by the Peabody Essex Museum and Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $50-55. As discussed on the program: Gisela Torres, Reverie and Slumber, 2020. For images, please see Episode No. 748.
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