This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Josiah McElheny. A survey of McElheny’s work is on view through October 14 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Titled “Some Pictures of the Infinite,” it was curated by Helen Molesworth.
Concurrently, this McElheny, Crystalline Landscape After Hablik and Luckhardt III, is included in “Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012” at the Toledo Museum of Art. The show is on view through Sept. 9. Consider: Czech artists such as Wenzel Hablik and Wassili Luckhardt avoided communist censors by exploring abstraction in a seemingly benign medium: Glass.
McElheny was the recipient of a 2006 MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Museum of Modern Art.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Josiah McElheny. A survey of McElheny’s work is on view through October 14 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Titled “Some Pictures of the Infinite,” it was curated by Helen Molesworth.
Concurrently, McElheny’s The Past Was a Mirage I Had Left Far Behind (2011) is on view at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. The Whitechapel’s web page features not just stills from McElheny’s installation, such as the one above, but also video.
McElheny was the recipient of a 2006 MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Museum of Modern Art.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Josiah McElheny. A survey of McElheny’s work is on view through October 14 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Titled “Some Pictures of the Infinite,” it was curated by Helen Molesworth.
McElheny was the recipient of a 2006 MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Image: Josiah McElheny, Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction, 2004. Collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.
This piece, Czech Modernism Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely (2005, detail) is by this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast guest Josiah McElheny. It’s made of mirrors. No matter: As you look at it, you can’t see yourself reflected in any of them. Why not? On this week’s show, McElheny reveals how the piece works.
A survey of McElheny’s work is on view through October 14 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, which owns Czech Modernism. Titled “Some Pictures of the Infinite,” it was curated by Helen Molesworth.
McElheny was the recipient of a 2006 MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Museum of Modern Art.
Download the program directly to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe via iTunes, RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the show.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Josiah McElheny. A survey of McElheny’s work is on view through October 14 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Titled “Some Pictures of the Infinite,” it was curated by Helen Molesworth.
McElheny was the recipient of a 2006 MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Museum of Modern Art. During a 2005 fellowship at the Wexner Center for the Arts, McElheny collaborated with Ohio State University professor David Weinberg, a process which resulted in An End to Modernity (2005, detail above), which is now in the collection of the Tate. The fantastic Wexner publication that chronicled the residency and the resulting work is available for free as a PDF.
On the second segment of the show I talk with Kansas City-based artist A. Bitterman, who is currently in residence at Indy Island, Andrea Zittel’s live-in sculpture in the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s 100 Acres sculpture park. His project there is titled “Indigenous: Out of the Wild with A. Bitterman” and has a fantastic website.
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The art: Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do, 1989. The piece was ‘installed’ on New York City buses, a poster mounted on aluminum.
The news: “Chronicling AIDS activists’ darkest days: Harvard project collects an oral history,” by Martine Powers in the Boston Globe. The story discusses Harvard’s purchase of the oral history archive of ACT UP. Harvard’s involvement with the archive started via then-Harvard Art Museums curator Helen Molesworth, who curated this exhibition and who later helped initiate the acquisition. (Molesworth is now the chief curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston). You can view the archive here.
The source: Collection of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis; the New York Public Library; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
