This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Cory Arcangel, who is included in “The Sports Show” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. (Video here.) Arcangel is best-known for his tweaks of video games and his media-based tricksterism.
The still here is from Arcangel’s All the Parts from Simon and Garfunkel’s 1984 Central Park Performance Where Garfunkel Sings with His Hands in His Pockets (2004), which is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The piece is exactly what it says it is. It’s about six-and-a-half minutes long. Dana Ward wrote about the piece on SFMOMA’s blog. If I had a link to the video, I’d share it, alas…
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April 2012
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Cory Arcangel, who is included in “The Sports Show” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. (Video here.) Arcangel is best-known for his tweaks of video games and his media-based tricksterism.
Last year the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted a show of new Arcangel work titled “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools.” His work is in the collection of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
For the show’s second segment, I check in with the artist who held office hours in a former museum director’s office during her show. Zoe Strauss, whose exhibition “Ten Years” just closed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, explains how that unusual arrangement worked out. I wrote about my visit to her office here.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly to your mobile device/PC, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of the works discussed on this week’s show, click here.
Image: Cory Arcangel, still from Super Mario Clouds, 2002-. Visit Arcangel’s website to see the animated gif and more hacks and tweaks from the famed video game.
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has named “Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs” the photography book of the year. It’s the UK’s top award for photography books.
Huntington curator Jennifer Watts was my guest on Episode Eight of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. The Huntington has the second largest Watkins collection in the world. Watts’s essays in the book (and our conversation on The MAN Podcast) spotlight two of Watkins’s less-celebrated — and best — series: his California missions photographs and his pictures of southern California and Kern County.
Click here to download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, and click here to see images of the art discussed on the show.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Cory Arcangel, who is included in “The Sports Show” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Arcangel is best-known for his tweaks of video games and his media-based tricksterism.
Last year the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted a show of new Arcangel work titled “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools.” His work is in the collection of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
For the show’s second segment, I check in with the artist who held office hours in a former museum director’s office during her show. Zoe Strauss, whose exhibition “Ten Years” just closed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, explains how that unusual arrangement worked out. I wrote about my visit to her office here.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly to your mobile device/PC, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of the works discussed on this week’s show, click here.
Image: Cory Arcangel, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds, 2005. Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
There are fewer than two weeks left to see “Snapshot: Painters and Photography: Bonnard to Vuillard” at The Phillips Collection in Washington.
The exhibition spotlights six artists – Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Riviere and George Hendrik Breitner – and examines how their use of a new, hand-held Kodak camera, informed their work. Even more interesting: The exhibitions shows how their painting informed the pictures they took. It’s the kind of exhibition that has you bumping into other gallery-goers as you walk between photograph and painting, painting and photograph.
Exhibition curator Elizabeth Easton was the guest on Episode Seventeen of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. She tells great stories about Vuillard and his seemingly omnipresent mother, affairs between artists and their dealer’s wife (suggestions of which were captured by both camera and, er, canvas) and more. It’s a rollicking good show!
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Image: Edouard Vuillard, Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, 1893.
Today is Willem de Kooning’s birthday! He would have been 105.
On the occasion of the Museum of Modern Art’s tremendous 2011 John Elderfield-curated de Kooning retrospective, de Kooning co-biographer Mark Stevens came onto The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Stevens and his co-author Annalyn Swan won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for their biography of the artist, “de Kooning: Am American Master.” So far as I know, this program marked Stevens’s first thoughts on the exhibition.
Download the program directly to your PC/mobile device here. You can see images of the art Stevens and I discuss here.
Image: de Kooning, Woman, 1948. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Today the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced that it has acquired Shirin Neshat’s Speechless (at left), from the “Women of Allah” series (1993-1997).
Neshat was the guest on Episode Eleven of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Click here to download the program directly to your PC/mobile device. See images of the art we discussed here.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel.
A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work.
Zittel lives and works at A-Z West outside Joshua Tree, Calif., an enterprise that encompasses “all aspects of day to day living, [in which] home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs.” Zittel also operates High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the California desert.
For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island (2010), joins me to discuss her Zittel-based residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Image: Zittel, A-Z Wagon Station customized by Jonas Hauptman.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel. A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work.
Zittel lives and works at A-Z West outside Joshua Tree, Calif., an enterprise that encompasses “all aspects of day to day living, [in which] home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs.” Zittel also operates High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the California desert.
For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island, joins me to discuss her residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Ball chronicled her time in Indianapolis here. The website is full of photos, videos and stories. Who knew greywater, mycobooms and living on a Zittel could be so interesting?
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Image: Zittel, Indy Island, 2010. (That’s Ball in the foreground!)
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger and artist Sarah Morris.
Until last week, Goldberger was the architecture critic for The New Yorker, a post he had held since 1997. Before that he was the architecture critic at The New York Times, where he won the Pulitzer in 1984. Goldberg left The New Yorker to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
He’s the author of numerous books, including “Why Architecture Matters.” He’s currently working on a biography of architect Frank Gehry that will be published by Alfred A. Knopf. Goldberger is also a superstar on Twitter.
My second guest is Sarah Morris, whose 2010 film installation Points on a Line was just on view now at the Wexner Center for the Arts. It was recently acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Points on a Line examines Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House and considers their relationships to each other and to other projects by Mies and Johnson.
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Image: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger and artist Sarah Morris.
Until last week, Goldberger was the architecture critic for The New Yorker, a post he had held since 1997. Before that he was the architecture critic at The New York Times, where he won the Pulitzer in 1984. Goldberg left The New Yorker to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
He’s the author of numerous books, including “Why Architecture Matters.” He’s currently working on a biography of architect Frank Gehry that will be published by Alfred A. Knopf. Goldberger is also a superstar on Twitter.
My second guest is Sarah Morris, whose 2010 film installation Points on a Line is on view now at the Wexner Center for the Arts. It was recently acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Points on a Line examines Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House and considers their relationships to each other and to other projects by Mies and Johnson.
To download this week’s MAN Podcast directly to your PC or mobile device, click here.
Image: Morris, Creative Artists Agency (Los Angeles), 2005. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
There are just two weekends left to see “Zoe Strauss: Ten Years” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It’s one of the best and one of the most important exhibitions of the year. Don’t miss it.
Throughout the exhibition, Strauss has kept office hours at the museum. Click here to see the calendar of events for the last 10 days of the show. This post on Modern Art Notes might give you a sense of what Strauss’s office hours are like.
Strauss was my guest on Episode Ten of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. It’s one of my favorite shows. Don’t miss the part where Strauss talks about how the preparation for her show was interrupted by a double murder on the south Philadelphia block on which she lives. Amazing stuff.
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Image: Detail from Strauss’s Daddy Tattoo, Philadelphia, 2002.
The art: Mitch Epstein, Amos Power Plant, Winfield, West Virginia, 2007.
The news: “New Rules for New Power Plants,” an editorial in The New York Times on the Obama administration’s new rules for new power plants.
The source: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Mitch Epstein talking about two series of work: “American Power,” in which he examines the links between energy and power in America and a new series of the trees of New York City. Click here to download the program directly to your PC or mobile device.
One of the best pictures of the 2000s.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mitch Epstein.
For me, this picture from Epstein’s “American Power” series and in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is one the best photographs of the 2000s. We discuss it at length on this week’s show, especially how it relates to Epstein’s new pictures of New York City trees.
Epstein is one of America’s most prominent and most honored photographers. His work is in the collection of virtually every major museum in the world. He was the winner of the 2011 Prix Pictet for his series “American Power.” His most recent work, an examination of the trees of New York City, is on view now at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea.
On the second segment of this week’s MAN Podcast, Denver Art Museum curator Eric Paddock and I discuss work by Epstein’s teacher, Garry Winogrand. Fifty photographs from Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series are on view now at the Denver Art Museum.
Click here to download this week’s show directly to your PC/mobile device.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mitch Epstein.
Epstein is one of America’s most prominent and most honored photographers. His work is in the collection of virtually every major museum in the world. He was the winner of the 2011 Prix Pictet for his series “American Power.” His most recent work, an examination of the trees of New York City, is on view now at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea.
On the second segment of this week’s MAN Podcast, Denver Art Museum curator Eric Paddock and I discuss work by Epstein’s teacher, Garry Winogrand. Fifty photographs from Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series are on view now at the Denver Art Museum.
Click here to download this week’s show directly to your PC/mobile device.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features painter Lari Pittman. One of Pittman’s most important paintings, The Veneer of Order (1985) is featured in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s.” The thesis of the exhibition, which was curated by Helen Molesworth, is that the political, often confrontational art of the 1980s had its roots in feminist art of the preceding decade.
On the second segment of this week’s show, Crown Point Press founder Kathan Brown joins me to talk about Richard Diebenkorn’s printmaking practice. Many of Diebenkorn’s Crown Point-published prints are on view in “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series,” which is on view now at the Orange County Museum of Art. I reviewed the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s presentation of the exhibition here.
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Image: Diebenkorn, Ochre (detail), 1986.
