The Modern Art Notes Podcast

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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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. 

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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.