The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features William Powhida discussing new work he’s exhibiting at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. The gallery has made available a PDF catalogue of the exhibition.
Powhida’s work typically engages in a pointed critique of the art market and the institutions and individuals who are part of its ecosystem.
This is a detail from Powhida’s 2013 Some Asset Class (Digital) Paintings — Color Fields, a piece Powhida and host Tyler Green discussed at length. They discussed the piece’s origins in artistic practices embraced by the art market and its enablers.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Philip Taaffe. An exhibition of Taaffe’s most recent work is on view at Luhring Augustine gallery in Chelsea through June 15. Taaffe has re-designed his website just in time for the show. Among the better artist websites, it features most (if not all) of the paintings he’s made since 1980.
Taaffe’s work engages cultural, natural and art history, often all at once. Taaffe’s work is in the collection of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A 2001 survey of his work was launched by the Galleria Civica of Trento, Italy.
This is Taaffe’s Pine Columns (1988), one of the works he discusses on this week’s show.
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John J. Egan, installation view of Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley (1850) in the exhibition The River: Images of the Mississippi, 1976
As part of the US bicentennial celebration, the Walker Art Center presented an exhibition focused on the Mississippi River—a major US waterway that finds its primary source in Itasca, Minnesota, and winds through Minneapolis/St. Paul on its way south to the Gulf of Mexico. The exhibition included historical works such as this panorama, measuring 90 inches wide by 348 feet long, on loan from the St. Louis Art Museum, as well as commissioned works by contemporary artists inspired by the mighty river. The Walker used this moment to address important waterfront topics, including urban redevelopment along the shores of the Mississippi, and conservation issues.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Philip Taaffe. An exhibition of Taaffe’s most recent work opens Friday, May 3 at Luhring Augustine gallery in Chelsea. Taaffe has re-designed his website just in time for the show. Among the better artist websites, it features most (if not all) of the paintings he’s made since 1980.
Taaffe’s work engages cultural, natural and art history, often all at once. Taaffe’s work is in the collection of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A 2001 survey of his work was launched by the Galleria Civica of Trento, Italy.
On the second segment, William Powhida discusses new work he’s exhibiting at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. The gallery has made available a PDF catalogue of the exhibition. Powhida’s work typically engages in a pointed critique of the art market and the institutions and individuals who are part of its ecosystem. Despite living and showing in New York, he has not been included in a Whitney Biennial because, well… awkward.
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The picture at the top of this post was taken in 1983 by the second guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast: David Maisel. It’s titled Wall of Ash, Walking to the Crater, Mount St. Helens.
On the program Maisel and host Tyler Green discussed the relationship between Maisel’s picture and Paul Cezanne’s paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire in Provence. The two examples of Cezannes here are both from 1902-06. The top one is at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City; the one on the bottom is from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Maisel was on The MAN Podcast to discuss his beautiful new book “Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime,” which is just out from Steidl. An exhibition by the same title of Maisel’s work is on view at the University of Colorado Art Museum through May 11.
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This is a detail from a sheet included in Carl Andre’s 1963 Historical References. This 8 1/2-by-11 sheet, from the collection of the Chinati Foundation and on view now in Marfa, Texas, addresses Eadweard Muybridge and the story of his killing of Harry Larkyns, the lover of Muybridge’s wife Flora. Today on Modern Art Notes, I tease out some of the links between Andre’s typed poems, his sculpture and Muybridge’s work.
Muybridge’s murder of Larkyns is at the center of Edward Ball’s new book, “The Inventor and the Tycoon.” It tells the story of the relationship between Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, one of the Big Four who built the western half of the transcontinental railroad. Stanford famously commissioned Muybridge’s famous ‘animal locomotion’ pictures and stood by his man even as Muybridge faced that murder charge.
How to listen: Download the Ball show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball talking about his new book “The Inventor and the Tycoon.” The book tells the story of the relationship between photographer (and murderer) Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, one of the Big Four who built the western half of the transcontinental railroad. Stanford famously commissioned Muybridge’s famous ‘animal locomotion’ pictures and stood by his man even as Muybridge faced a murder charge. Ball’s book weaves together the story of their lives, their success and their eventual enmity into a rollicking-good narrative.
Ball won the National Book Award in 1998 for “Slaves in the Family,” which examine’s his family’s ownership of slaves in South Carolina.
On the second segment, David Maisel discusses his new book “Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime,” which is just out from Steidl. An exhibition by the same title of Maisel’s work is on view at the University of Colorado Art Museum through May 11.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
JUST LAUNCHED: The web-based digital exhibition “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990” is now live. Part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., this online-only exhibition brings together scholars, artists, authors, and critics to explore the photographic treasure trove that is the Southern California Edison archive, donated to The Huntington in 2006.
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G. Haven Bishop, Edison Advertising Program - Virginia Thompson and old light bulb, 1939. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Included in ARCHIVE / ARCHIVO, curated by Jennifer Watts.
Joseph Fadler, Electric Clothes Drying Promotional Campaign, 1956. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Included in CONSUMPTION / CONSUMO, curated by Eric Avila.
Joseph Fadler, El Segundo Steam Station, 1968. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Included in FABRICATION / CREACIÓN, curated by Catherine Opie.
Joseph Fadler, People Living in All Electric Home, 1955. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Included in DOMESTICITY / DOMESTICIDAD, curated by Dianne Harris.
On the second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, David Maisel discusses his new book “Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime,” which is just out from Steidl. An exhibition by the same title of Maisel’s work is on view at the University of Colorado Art Museum through May 11.
This is the cover to the new book, which arrives in U.S. stores this week. It’s not just beautiful but it’s strikingly readable. Don’t miss this one!
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
On the second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, David Maisel discusses his new book “Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime,” which is just out from Steidl. An exhibition by the same title of Maisel’s work is on view at the University of Colorado Art Museum through May 11. His The Mining Project (Clifton, AZ 5) (1989) is above. It’s among the works Maisel and host Tyler Green discuss on this week’s show.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball talking about his new book “The Inventor and the Tycoon.” The book tells the story of the relationship between photographer (and murderer) Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, one of the Big Four who built the western half of the transcontinental railroad. Stanford famously commissioned Muybridge’s famous ‘animal locomotion’ pictures and stood by his man even as Muybridge faced a murder charge. Ball’s book weaves together the story of their lives, their success and their eventual enmity into a rollicking-good narrative.
Ball won the National Book Award in 1998 for “Slaves in the Family,” which examine’s his family’s ownership of slaves in South Carolina.
This is a detail of Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Plate #773, made at the University of Pennsylvania. Muybridge frequently made use of animals from the Philadelphia zoo for his work at Penn.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball talking about his new book “The Inventor and the Tycoon.” The book tells the story of the relationship between photographer (and murderer) Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, one of the Big Four who built the western half of the transcontinental railroad. Stanford famously commissioned Muybridge’s famous ‘animal locomotion’ pictures and stood by his man even as Muybridge faced a murder charge. Ball’s book weaves together the story of their lives, their success and their eventual enmity into a rollicking-good narrative.
Ball won the National Book Award in 1998 for “Slaves in the Family,” which examine’s his family’s ownership of slaves in South Carolina.
On the second segment, David Maisel discusses his new book “Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime,” which is just out from Steidl. An exhibition by the same title of Maisel’s work is on view at the University of Colorado Art Museum through May 11. His Terminal Mirage 1 (2003) is above.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball talking about his new book “The Inventor and the Tycoon.” The book tells the story of the relationship between photographer (and murderer) Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, one of the Big Four who built the western half of the transcontinental railroad. Stanford famously commissioned Muybridge’s famous ‘animal locomotion’ pictures and stood by his man even as Muybridge faced a murder charge. Ball’s book weaves together the story of their lives, their success and their eventual enmity into a rollicking-good narrative.
Ball won the National Book Award in 1998 for “Slaves in the Family,” which examine’s his family’s ownership of slaves in South Carolina.
On the second segment, David Maisel discusses his new book “Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime,” which is just out from Steidl. An exhibition by the same title of Maisel’s work is on view at the University of Colorado Art Museum through May 11.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wangechi Mutu. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is currently showing “Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey,” the first mid-career survey of Mutu’s work. Curated by the Nasher’s Trevor Schoonmaker, the exhibition is on view through July 21. On May 23 the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney will debut a concurrent (but obviously different) Mutu survey. It will be up through August 14.
Mutu was born in Nairobi, Kenya, schooled in Wales and New York and lives in Brooklyn. Her work, which began as mostly collage-based but has evolved to include sculpture and room-sized installations. The winner of the 2010 Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year,” Mutu has been featured in solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Pace, the Miami Art Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, the Art Gallery of Ontario and more.
This is a detail from Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies (2005) from the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wangechi Mutu. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is currently showing “Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey,” the first mid-career survey of Mutu’s work. Curated by the Nasher’s Trevor Schoonmaker, the exhibition is on view through July 21. On May 23 the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney will debut a concurrent (but obviously different) Mutu survey. It will be up through August 14.
Mutu was born in Nairobi, Kenya, schooled in Wales and New York and lives in Brooklyn. Her work, which began as mostly collage-based but has evolved to include sculpture and room-sized installations. The winner of the 2010 Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year,” Mutu has been featured in solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Pace, the Miami Art Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, the Art Gallery of Ontario and more.
This is a still from the trailer of Wangechi Mutu’s The end of eating everything (2013), her newest video piece. It features Santigold and is debuting at the Nasher. Visit MANPodcast.com to see the trailer.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
