Podcasts by The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Francis Bacon, Henri Matisse from 2021-07-22T21:45:05

Episode No. 507 features authors Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan; and Kathryn Brown.

Stevens and Swan are the...

Sarah Cain, Supernatural America from 2021-07-15T21:29:46

Episode No. 506 features artist Sarah Cain and curator Robert Cozzolino.

The National Gallery of Art is showing Cain's Listen

Joel Meyerowitz, Elizabeth James-Perry from 2021-07-08T20:02:09

Episode No. 505 features artists Joel Meyerowitz and Elizabeth James-Perry.

Damiani has published a new edition of Listen

Holiday clips: Alison Saar from 2021-07-01T19:10:16

Episode No. 504 is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Alison Saar.

The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. and the Armory Center for...

Wael Shawky, Rosie Lee Tompkins from 2021-06-24T23:26:30

Episode No. 503 features artist Wael Shawky and curator Elaine Yau.

Shawky's work is on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Listen

Artemisia Gentileschi's Lucretia, Orazio's Danaë from 2021-06-17T19:36:23

Episode No. 501 features curator Davide Gasporotto and conservator Marcia Steele.

Gasporotto, the senior curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum...

Ekene Ijeoma, Chloe? Bass from 2021-06-14T11:55:42

Episode No. 501 features artists Ekene Ijeoma and Chloe? Bass.

Ijeoma is featured in "All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy" at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha...

Nancy Grossman, Stacy Lynn Waddell from 2021-06-03T19:35:12

Episode No. 500 features artists Nancy Grossman and Stacy Lynn Waddell.

Grossman is featured in Listen

Holiday clips: Senga Nengudi from 2021-05-27T11:34:04

Episode No. 499 is a Memorial Day weekend clips episode featuring Senga Nengudi.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting Listen

Ken Gonzales-Day, Tony Conrad from 2021-05-20T19:15:58

Episode No. 498 features artist Ken Gonzales-Day and curator Rachel Adams.

Gonzales-Day is among the artists included in "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA" at...

Printing the Revolution, Michael Menchaca from 2021-05-13T21:09:18

Episode No. 497 features curator E. Carmen Ramos and artist Michael Menchaca.

Ramos has curated "¡Printing the Revolutio...

Alice Neel, Soutine/de Kooning from 2021-05-06T20:05:47

Episode No. 496 features curator Kelly Baum and art historian Judith Zilczer.

Along with Randall Griffey, Baum is the co-curator of the retrospective exh...

Natural Bridge, Americans in Spain from 2021-04-29T14:03:33

Episode No. 495 features curators Chris Oliver and Corey Piper.

Oliver is the curator of Listen

Jennifer Roberts, Phil Sanders from 2021-04-22T20:00

Episode No. 494 features art historian Jennifer Roberts and master printer and author Phil Sanders.

Beginning this Sunday, April 25, Roberts will deliver...

Buck Ellison, Louis Sloan from 2021-04-15T21:00:50

Episode No. 493 features artist Buck Ellison and curator Lewis Tanner Moore.

Buck Ellison is included in Listen

"Promise, Witness, Remembrance," Magic Realism from 2021-04-08T17:54:23

Episode No. 492 features curators Allison Glenn and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll.

Glenn is the curator of ...

Holiday clips: Torkwase Dyson from 2021-04-01T22:50:37

Episode No. 491 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Torkwase Dyson.

Dyson is included in Listen

Juan Gris, David Driskell from 2021-03-25T20:50:30

Episode No. 490 features curators Nicole R. Myers and Julie McGee.

With Katherine Rothkopf, Nicole R. Myers is the co-curator of Listen

Juan Gris, David Driskell from 2021-03-25T20:50:30

Episode No. 490 features curators Nicole R. Myers and Julie McGee.

With Katherine Rothkopf, Nicole R. Myers is the co-curator of Listen

Arthur Dove, Samuel van Hoogstraten from 2021-03-18T21:42:08

Episode No. 489 features art historians Debra Bricker Balken and Celeste Brusati. 

Balken is the author of Listen

Early Lichtenstein, Candice Lin from 2021-03-04T21:45:07

Episode No. 487 features curators Marshall N. Price and Elizabeth Finch, and artist Candice Lin.

Price and Finch are the co-curators of ...

Baseera Khan, Futurefarmers from 2021-02-25T23:02:33

Episode No. 486 features artists Baseera Khan and Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers.

Kahn and Futurefarmers are among the artists included in Listen

Holiday clips: Kelli Morgan from 2021-02-18T19:43:03

Episode No. 485 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday week clips episode featuring former curator and historian Kelli Morgan.

Earlier this week, Charles Venable, the director of Ne...

Deborah Willis, Leidy Churchman from 2021-02-11T20:27:49

Episode No. 484 features historian Deborah Willis and artist Leidy Churchman.

Willis is the author of "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" from NYU P...

Emma Amos, Marie Watt from 2021-01-29T01:14:59

Episode No. 482 features curator Shawnya L. Harris and artist Marie Watt.

Harris is the curator of "Emma Amos: Color Odyssey," a retrospective of Amos's career that opens Saturday, Jan. 30...

Michael Rakowitz, Frank Duveneck from 2021-01-21T21:31:48

Episode No. 481 features Michael Rakowitz and Julie Aronson.

Rakowitz is the winner of the 2020 Nasher Prize, given by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The museum is showing Rakowitz...

Jill Mulleady, Umar Rashid from 2021-01-15T01:40:51

Episode No. 480 features artists Jill Mulleady and Umar Rashid.

Mulleady and Rashid are included in "Made in L.A. 2020: A Vision" the Hammer Museum's biennial that has been installed -- bu...

Monica Majoli, Mario Ayala from 2021-01-07T18:41:14

Episode No. 479 features artists Monica Majoli and Mario Ayala.

Majoli and Ayala are in "Made in L.A. 2020: A Vision" the Hammer Museum biennial that has been installed -- but is not yet o...

Holiday clips: Dread Scott from 2020-12-31T22:07:57

Episode No. 478 is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Dread Scott.

For thirty years, across sculpture, installation, performance, photography and video, Scott’s art has relen...

Holiday clips: Paul Mpagi Sepuya from 2020-12-24T22:19:12

Episode No. 477 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya. 

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha is showing "Intimate Actions," a set of three solo exhibitio...

Siddhartha Mitter, Marina Adams from 2020-12-17T19:56:21

Episode No. 476 features journalist and critic Siddhartha Mitter and artist Marina Adams.

The New York-based Mitter writes about artists and communities of artists that fall outside the co...

Amy Cutler, Degree Zero from 2020-12-10T21:49:31

Episode No. 475 features artist Amy Cutler and curator Samantha Friedman.

Cutler is in "Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing" at the Toledo Museum of ...

Terry Adkins, Mari Carmen Ramírez from 2020-12-03T19:15:58

Episode No. 474 features curators Stephanie Weissberg and Mari Carmen Ramírez.

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is presenting "Terry Adkins: Resounding" through Feb. 7, 2021. Adkins wa...

Thanksgiving clips: Nicole R. Fleetwood from 2020-11-27T02:43:32

Episode No. 473 is a Thanksgiving clips episode with author Nicole R. Fleetwood. 

Fleetwood is the author of “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” an examination of how the...

Bisa Butler, Malcolm Daniel from 2020-11-19T15:52:13

Episode No. 472 features artist Bisa Butler and curator Malcolm Daniel.

The Art Institute of Chicago is showing "Bisa Butler: Portraits" through April 19, 2021.

Butler's work is a...

Radcliffe Bailey from 2020-11-12T23:02:40

Episode No. 471 features artist Radcliffe Bailey.

Bailey is included in "Person of Interest" at Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The exhibition explores portra...

Imogen Cunningham, Gold Rush daguerreotypes from 2020-11-05T19:57:12

Episode No. 470 features curators Paul Martineau and Jane L. Aspinwall.

Martineau is the author of "Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective," which was recently published by Getty Publications....

Alia Ali, the Zealy daguerreotypes from 2020-10-29T19:25:15

Episode No. 469 features artist Alia Ali and historian Molly Rogers.

The New Orleans Museum of Art is exhibiting "Alia Ali: FLUX" through November 15. 

When Los Angeles County all...

Jeffrey Gibson, Jess T. Dugan from 2020-10-22T20:02:37

Episode No. 468 features artists Jeffrey Gibson and Jess T. Dugan.

The Brooklyn Museum is showing "Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks," through January 10, 2021.
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Tomashi Jackson, Delaney & Baldwin from 2020-10-16T13:30:12

Episode No. 467 features artist Tomashi Jackson and curator Stephen Wicks.

The Wexner Center for the Arts is showing "Tomashi Jackson: Love Rollercoaster" through Dec. 27.

Jackson...

Humboldt in the US, "Riffs and Relations" from 2020-10-08T11:01:06

Episode No. 466 features curators Eleanor Jones Harvey and Adrienne L. Childs.

Harvey is the curator of “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture” at the Smit...

Virginia Jaramillo from 2020-10-01T21:44:28

Episode No. 465 features artist Virginia Jaramillo.

The Menil Collection is presenting "Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969-74" through July 3, 2021. It is the first solo m...

Torkwase Dyson, Dennis Reed from 2020-09-24T20:46:04

Episode No. 464 features artist Torkwase Dyson and historian Dennis Reed.

The New Orleans Museum of Art is showing "Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought, 15 Paintings for the Planta...

Everett Spruce, Barry X Ball from 2020-09-17T20:49:03

Episode No. 463 features curator Shirley Reece-Hughes and artist Barry X Ball.

Reece-Hughes is the curator of "Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce" at the Amon Carter Museum in Fo...

"Goya," and "Landmarks" on UCSD's Stuart Collection from 2020-09-10T20:08:28

Episode No. 462 features author Janis A. Tomlinson and Stuart Collection director and author Mary Beebe.

Tomlinson is the author of "Goya: A Portrait of the Artist," which Princeton Univer...

Holiday clips: Judd from 2020-09-03T19:05:09

Episode No. 461 is a holiday clips episode featuring curator Ann Temkin.

Less than two weeks after opening on March 1, the Museum of Modern Art, New York's exhibition "Judd" was temporaril...

Nzinga Simmons, Jacob Lawrence from 2020-08-28T00:26:40

Episode No. 460 features critic Nzinga Simmons and curator Elizabeth Turner.

Simmons joins host Tyler Green to discuss the Vanity Fair cover featuring an Amy Sherald painting of Breonna Ta...

Listener Q&A with Catherine Wagley from 2020-08-20T18:19:24

Episode No. 459 is a listener Q&A episode with critic and journalist Catherine Wagley.

Wagley is a Los Angeles-based critic who writes for a range of publications, including Artnet, Momus,...

Cabinet Cards, "True to Nature" from 2020-08-13T17:33:12

Episode No. 458 features curators John Rohrbach and Mary Morton.

Rohrbach curated "Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and Modern Photography," which opens Aug. 18 at the Amon Carter Museum of Ameri...

Sofonisba Anguissola, John Edwin Mason from 2020-08-06T17:29:52

Episode No. 457 features art historian Michael W. Cole and historian John Edwin Mason.

Cole is the author of "Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work" which was recently publ...

Trevor Schoonmaker, Sarah Beetham from 2020-07-30T18:33:08

Episode No. 456 features museum director Trevor Schoonmaker and art historian Sarah Beetham.

Schoonmaker, the director of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, discusses how art mus...

Ilona Katzew, Lava Thomas from 2020-07-23T15:24:27

Episode No. 455 features curator Ilona Katzew and artist Lava Thomas.

Katzew is a curator at LACMA. She joins host Tyler Green to discuss how she tries to do her work, especially research ...

Lewis Carroll, Monument Lab in St. Louis from 2020-07-16T19:47:17

Episode No. 454 features author Diane Waggoner and curator and historian Paul Farber.

Waggoner wrote "Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood" from Princeton University Press. It ...

Naima J. Keith, Kelli Morgan from 2020-07-10T00:41:03

Episode No. 453 features curators Naima J. Keith and Kelli Morgan.

Along with Diana Nawi, Keith is the curator of the Prospect triennial, "Yesterday We Said Tomorrow," in New Orleans. It w...

Holiday clips: Beuford Smith, Hedda Sterne from 2020-07-02T19:54:38

Episode No. 452 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Beuford Smith and art historian Shaina Larrivee.

Smith is featured in two exhibitions that are on view at recently re-opened Ame...

Anne Brigman, Sheldon acquisitions from 2020-06-25T21:39:34

Episode No. 451 features art historian Kathleen Pyne and curator Melissa Yuen.

Pyne is the author of "Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment," which was published by Yale University...

Listener Q&A with Jillian Steinhauer from 2020-06-18T22:05:19

Episode No. 450 of is a listener Q&A episode with critic Jillian Steinhauer.

Steinhauer is a New York City-based critic who writes for a range of publications, including the New York Times...

Nicole R. Fleetwood, Allegra Pesenti from 2020-06-11T22:09:23

Episode No. 449 features author Nicole R. Fleetwood and curator Allegra Pesenti.

Fleetwood is the author of "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration," an examination of how the ...

Dread Scott from 2020-06-04T23:40:58

Episode No. 448 features artist Dread Scott.

Scott's 2015 "A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" is one of the major American artworks of the decade, and is sadly, immediately relevant in...

Holiday clips: Mark Dion from 2020-05-29T00:09:10

Episode No. 447 is a post-holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Mark Dion.

This week, Amazon Prime Video debuted "The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion," an hour-long documen...

John Edmonds, Tamara Johnson from 2020-05-21T23:31:06

Episode No. 446 features artists John Edmonds and Tamara Johnson.

This month the Brooklyn Museum planned to open "John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance." The opening date is now TBD; it will be ...

Humboldt in the United States from 2020-05-14T23:17:15

Episode No. 445 features curator Eleanor Jones Harvey.

Harvey is the curator of "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture" at the Smithsonian American Art Mus...

"Riffs and Relations" from 2020-05-07T23:29:17

Episode No. 444 features curator and historian Adrienne L. Childs.

Childs is the curator of "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition" at the Phil...

Blake Gopnik on "Warhol" from 2020-04-30T23:12:04

Episode No. 443 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features author Blake Gopnik.

Gopnik is the author of "Warhol," a new biography of artist Andy Warhol. The book was published by Ecco, a Har...

Sabine Eckmann, Rebecca Rabinow from 2020-04-29T00:16:09

In a special pandemic bonus episode, art museum directors Sabine Eckmann (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in Saint Louis) and Rebecca Rabinow (Menil Collection, Houston) dis...

Boston's Apollo, Late Bacon from 2020-04-23T23:39:28

Episode No. 442 features curators Nathaniel Silver and Alison de Lima Greene.

Silver curated "Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent" at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Muse...

Louis Draper & Kamoinge, Horace Pippin from 2020-04-17T00:38:49

Episode No. 441 features curator Sarah Eckhardt and author and art historian Anne Monahan.

Eckhardt is the curator of "Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop" at the VMFA...

Bonus: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Kate Shepherd from 2020-04-15T00:08:10

In a special pandemic bonus episode, artists Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Kate Shepherd discuss the extraordinary experience of having an exhibition of new work open and close at just about the same time. 

Holiday clips: Nell Painter from 2020-04-10T00:45:14

Episode No. 440 is a holiday clips edition featuring author and artist Nell Painter.

Painter is the author of Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over. “Starting over” refers to Painte...

Bonus: Christopher Knight, Antwaun Sargent from 2020-04-07T02:59:11

COVAD-19 pandemic bonus episode No. 2. Critics on looking (or not) during a pandemic. 

Christopher Knight is the longtime art critic at the Los Angeles Times. Earlier this year he won the ...

Michelangelo from 2020-04-03T01:57:31

Episode No. 439 features author and art historian William E. Wallace and curator Julian Brooks.

Wallace is the author of "Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Gr...

Bonus: Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Ursula von Rydingsvard from 2020-03-31T00:18:52

In a special bonus episode, artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, and Ursula von Rydingsvard discuss being artists in the midst of a global pandemic.