The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Selected films by Bas Jan Ader at UbuWeb

UbuWeb offers an eleven-and-a-half-minute reel which features six Bas Jan Ader films, including:

  • Fall 1 (Los Angeles 1970);
  • Fall II (Amsterdam 1970);
  • I’m Too Sad To Tell You (1971);
  • Broken Fall (Geometric) [West Kapelle - Holland];
  • Broken Fall (Organic) [Amsterdamse Bos - Holland]; and
  • Nightfall.

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Alexander Dumbadze. Dumbadze’s new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere,” mixes the story of Ader’s life and work in a thoughtful and entertaining way. Published by the University of Chicago Press, it’s the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington.

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Alexander Dumbadze on the life of Bas Jan Ader. Dumbadze’s new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere,” mixes the story of Ader’s life and work in a thoughtful and entertaining way. Published by the University of Chicago Press, it’s the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington.

The image above is a detail from the photograph I’m Too Sad to Tell You (1970) from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The photograph is likely from an early version of the work Ader made in California and later re-made in the Netherlands. I’m Too Sad to Tell You is best-known through a three-and-a-half-minute film Ader made in 1971. The film shows Ader in deep anguish, apparently crying for the entirety of the work. The intensity of this piece is typical of Ader’s art. 

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

It’s Ken Price week in New York! The late artist is the subject of two retrospectives opening this week: The Stephanie Barron-curated, LACMA-originated survey of Price’s sculpture opened yesterday at its final venue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’ll be there through September 22. A survey of Price’s works on paper debuts at The Drawing Center tomorrow and will remain on view through August 18. It was curated by Douglas Dreishpoon, the chief curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

The image at top is Price’s Underhung (1997). The second image is an acrylic-and-ink drawing, Liquid Rock (2004).

Barron was the lead guest on Episode No. 45 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. She and host Tyler Green discussed Price’s work, his sense of humor, his tendency to include orifices in his work and much more. 

To hear about Ken Price on The MAN Podcast: Download the show directly to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. See images of art discussed on the show.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Joyce Pensato

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Joyce Pensato. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently showing “I Killed Kenny,” a survey of Pensato’s work. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition will be on view through August 17.

This is Pensato’s first solo museum show. She’s been the focus of a three-person show at the Saint Louis Art Museum (with Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon), at the Wexner Center for the Arts and more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

This is a detail of Pensato’s 2009 charcoal drawing Liza at Berlin. 

On the second segment, Alexander Dumbadze discusses the life of Bas Jan Ader and his new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere.” It was published by the University of Chicago Press. It is the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington.

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

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Back at the Whitney, Tinkering With Perception

The New York Times’ Randy Kennedy writes up the return of a landmark 1977 Robert Irwin installation to the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

Irwin was the guest on Episode No. 26 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Download it and see images discussed on the program!

This is Fall 2 (Amsterdam 1970), Dutch-American artist Bas Jan Ader’s first video. It’s just 19 seconds long, but along with Fall 1 it sets up the rest of Ader’s short, influential career. (He died at approximately 33 years-old when he was lost at sea performing a piece.) In five years, Ader made just over two dozen works.

On the second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, art historian Alexander Dumbadze talks about “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere,” his new book on Ader. Part mini-monograph and part biography, the book is a strikingly readable presentation of one of conceptual art’s first important artists. (The book starts by describing how Ader made Fall 1.) Dumbadze’s conversation with MAN Podcast host Tyler Green starts at about the 34-minute mark of this week’s show.

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Joyce Pensato. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently showing “I Killed Kenny,” a survey of Pensato’s work. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition will be on view through August 17. This is Pensato’s first solo museum show. She’s been the focus of a three-person show at the Saint Louis Art Museum (with Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon), at the Wexner Center for the Arts and more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. This is Pensato’s 2012 Batman (2012). On the second segment, Alexander Dumbadze discusses the life of Bas Jan Ader and his new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere.” It was published by the University of Chicago Press. It is the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington. How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Joyce Pensato. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently showing “I Killed Kenny,” a survey of Pensato’s work. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition will be on view through August 17.

This is Pensato’s first solo museum show. She’s been the focus of a three-person show at the Saint Louis Art Museum (with Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon), at the Wexner Center for the Arts and more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

This is Pensato’s 2012 Batman (2012).

On the second segment, Alexander Dumbadze discusses the life of Bas Jan Ader and his new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere.” It was published by the University of Chicago Press. It is the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington.

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Joyce Pensato. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently showing “I Killed Kenny,” a survey of Pensato’s work. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition will be on view through August 17.

This is Pensato’s first solo museum show. She’s been the focus of a three-person show at the Saint Louis Art Museum (with Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon), at the Wexner Center for the Arts and more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

This is a detail of Pensato’s 2012 You’re Just the One I’ve Been Waiting For.

On the second segment, Alexander Dumbadze discusses the life of Bas Jan Ader and his new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere.” It was published by the University of Chicago Press. It is the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington.

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Joyce Pensato. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently showing “I Killed Kenny,” a survey of Pensato’s work. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition will be on view through August 17. This is Pensato’s first solo museum show. She’s been the focus of a three-person show at the Saint Louis Art Museum (with Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon), at the Wexner Center for the Arts and more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. This is Pensato’s 2012 Punk Homer.  On the second segment, Alexander Dumbadze discusses the life of Bas Jan Ader and his new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere.” It was published by the University of Chicago Press. It is the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington. How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Joyce Pensato. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently showing “I Killed Kenny,” a survey of Pensato’s work. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition will be on view through August 17.

This is Pensato’s first solo museum show. She’s been the focus of a three-person show at the Saint Louis Art Museum (with Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon), at the Wexner Center for the Arts and more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

This is Pensato’s 2012 Punk Homer. 

On the second segment, Alexander Dumbadze discusses the life of Bas Jan Ader and his new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere.” It was published by the University of Chicago Press. It is the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington.

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Joyce Pensato. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently showing “I Killed Kenny,” a survey of Pensato’s work. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition will be on view through August 17.

This is Pensato’s first solo museum show. She’s been the focus of a three-person show at the Saint Louis Art Museum (with Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon), at the Wexner Center for the Arts and more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

This is a detail of Pensato’s 2004 charcoal drawing Felix, which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. On this week’s program, host Tyler Green and Pensato discuss her long-time interest in drawing.

On the second segment, Alexander Dumbadze discusses the life of Bas Jan Ader and his new book, “Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere.” It was published by the University of Chicago Press. It is the most significant book on Ader’s life and work published to date. Dumbadze teaches art history at The George Washington University in Washington.

How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

A weekly podcast featuring artists, curators, art historians and authors. An independent production of Modern Art Notes Media. Produced and hosted by Tyler Green, edited by Wilson Butterworth.

This week's program features artist Joyce Pensato, the subject of a survey exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

On the second segment, art historian Alexander Dumbadze discusses his new book "Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere."

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