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April 2012
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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.
March 2012
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features painter Lari Pittman. One of Pittman’s most important paintings, The Veneer of Order (1985, above or left) 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. Pittman’s painting, and indeed his oeuvre, is a clear example of how feminist discourse and art motivated art in and after the ’80s.
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.
Click here to download the program directly to your PC/mobile device.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast is devoted to Jan van Eyck, the greatest painter of the northern Renaissance.
The first guest on the program is art historian Craig Harbison, whose book “Jan Van Eyck: The Play of Realism,” has just been revised and expanded to reflect new research on van Eyck’s wrok. It’s smart and detailed, but reads lightly. It’s a too-rare example of a top art historian willing to allow his sense of wonder at his subject’s work to infuse every page.
This season’s second major van Eyck news is the creation of “Closer to van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece.” The website is remarkable for many reasons. First: It’s difficult to see the Ghent Altarpiece in any detail in person: Many of the panels are 15 feet off the ground, leaving them impossible to examine closely. Now anyone can examine high-resolution, digital versions of them in never-seen-before quality.
But the site is much more than that: Unlike popular macrophotography sites such as the Google Art Project, “Closer to van Eyck” offers four layers of technical documentation of the Ghent Altarpiece: The straightforward macrophotographic image, but also infrared macrophotography, infrared reflectography and x-ray images.
My second guest, Ron Spronk, coordinated the “Closer to van Eyck” project. He is a an art historian and a specialist in the technical documentation of paintings.
To download the program directly to your mobile device/PC, click here. To see images of the artworks discussed on this week’s show, click here.
Image: Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Detail from the “Singing Angels” panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432.
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The art: Brian Ulrich, Marshall Fields, 2009. Ulrich was my guest on Episode Seven of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. You may stream the program via the Tumblr player in this post. You may also download it to your mobile device/PC here. To see Marshall Fields as a much larger JPEG, click here.
The news: “Mall Rats: J.G. Ballard’s final novel, ‘Kingdom Come,’ envisions the collapse of consumerist culture,” by Scott Bradfield for The New York Times Book Review.
The source: Brian Ulrich’s fantastic website and his recent book “Is This Place Great or What?”
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast is devoted to Jan van Eyck, the greatest painter of the northern Renaissance.
Remarkably, there’s only one English-language monograph on van Eyck’s art. Titled “Jan Van Eyck: The Play of Realism,” it was written by my first guest, Craig Harbison. The book, which was first published in 1991 and has now been revised and expanded to reflect new research on van Eyck’s work, is a wonderful read. It’s smart and detailed, but reads lightly. It’s a too-rare example of a top art historian willing to allow his sense of wonder at his subject’s work to infuse every page.
This season’s second major van Eyck news is the creation of “Closer to van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece.” The website is remarkable for many reasons. First: It’s difficult to see the Ghent Altarpiece in any detail in person: Many of the panels are 15 feet off the ground, leaving them impossible to examine closely. Now anyone can examine high-resolution, digital versions of them in never-seen-before quality.
But the site is much more than that: Unlike popular macrophotography sites such as the Google Art Project, “Closer to van Eyck” offers four layers of technical documentation of the Ghent Altarpiece: The straightforward macrophotographic image, but also infrared macrophotography, infrared reflectography and x-ray images.
My second guest, Ron Spronk, coordinated the “Closer to van Eyck” project. He is a an art historian and a specialist in the technical documentation of paintings.
To download the program directly to your mobile device/PC, click here. To see images of the artworks discussed on this week’s show, click here.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mark Bradford. A mid-career survey of Bradford’s work is now on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Also, a couple of large-scale works are installed across the street from SFMOMA, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.) The exhibition was curated for the Wexner Center for the Arts by Christopher Bedford in 2010. The show has traveled to the ICA Boston, the MCA Chicago and to the Dallas Museum of Art.
This week’s program also features something new: Sound! Over the course of today’s program and each MAN Podcast, you’ll hear the entire piece artist Steve Roden made for the show. Roden is a painter, a sculptor and he works in various time-based media. Curator Howard Fox organized a 20-year retrospective of Roden’s work for Pasadena’s The Armory Center for the Arts in 2010. He joins me to talk about what he made for The MAN Podcast and about his work.
Click (or right-click) here to save the program to your PC/mobile device!
Image: Mark Bradford, Raspberry, 2002.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mark Bradford. A mid-career survey of his artwork is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Also, a couple of large-scale works are installed across the street from SFMOMA, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.) The exhibition was curated for the Wexner Center for the Arts by Christopher Bedford in 2010. The show has traveled to the ICA Boston, the MCA Chicago and the Dallas Museum of Art.
This week’s program also features something new: Sound! Over the course of today’s program and each MAN Podcast, you’ll hear the entire piece artist Steve Roden made for the show. Roden is a painter, a sculptor and he works in various time-based media. Curator Howard Fox organized a 20-year retrospective of Roden’s work for Pasadena’s The Armory Center for the Arts in 2010. He joins me to talk about what he made for The MAN Podcast and about his work.
Click (or right-click) here to save the program to your PC/mobile device!
Image: Mark Bradford, Method Man, 2004.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Richard Serra, our greatest living sculptor. A retrospective of Serra’s drawings has just opened at its originating museum, The Menil Collection in Houston. It will be on view through June 10.
This is our 18th program — and maybe our best. Serra was fantastically thoughtful, insightful and at times even emotional. If you enjoy the program, please subscribe to The MAN Podcast on iTunes!
To download the program to your PC/mobile device, click (or right-click) here.
Image: Richard Serra, Vortex (detail), 2002. Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Image via Flickr user Thomas Hawk.
