The Modern Art Notes Podcast

This week’s Memorial Day weekend Modern Art Notes Podcast...

modernartnotes — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:39:43 -0400

This week’s Memorial Day weekend Modern Art Notes Podcast features a return visit from artist Tom Friedman and clips of Shirin Neshat and Lari Pittman.

The Saint Louis Art Museum opens a new David Chipperfield-designed wing on June 29, and one of Friedman’s new works, Untitled (Seascape) (2012) graces the first gallery. The museum acquired the work last year. Friedman, who was born and raised in Saint Louis, returns to the show to tell us about the piece.

Then we’ll have clips featuring Pittman and Neshat. Each is the subject of a career survey now at U.S. museums: A retrospective of Neshat’s work is on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts through July 7 and “Lari Pittman: A Decorated Chronology” opens Friday, May 24 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. It’s up through August 11.

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This is a detail from Tom Friedman’s extraordinary...

modernartnotes — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:24 -0400

This is a detail from Tom Friedman’s extraordinary 2012 Untitled (Seascape), which was recently acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum. When SLAM opens its new David Chipperfield-designed wing next month, this artwork will be in the first gallery of curator Simon Kelly’s excellent installation of contemporary art.

The piece looks like an oh-so-familiar seascape, a scene captured a zillion times over many centuries of art, from Jan van Goyen to Gustave Courbet to the more recent, ubiquitous sea-and-horizon photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto. However, there’s one key difference: Friedman’s artwork isn’t an oil painting or a photograph, it’s essentially a trompe l’oeil construction meant to recall paintings and photographs. The Friedman is made out of slightly creased paper (!!).

Friedman, a native Saint Louisan, was the lead guest on Episode No. 14 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. The show is smart, funny, one of our absolute favorites.

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Earlier today MANPodcast.com re-shared Episode No. 52 of The...

modernartnotes — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:28 -0400

Earlier today MANPodcast.com re-shared Episode No. 52 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, an episode which featured Eleanor Jones Harvey, the curator of “The Civil War and American Art.” That exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art next week.

Episode No. 73 of the program featured the other Civil War show now at the Met: “Photography and the American Civil War.” The exhibition surveys photography of and related to the conflict, including battlefield daguerreotypes, post-battle scenes and intense pictures of the dead and wounded. Episode No. 73’s lead guest was Jeff Rosenheim, the curator of the exhibition and the author of the excellent book that accompanies it. “Photography and the American Civil War” will be on view through September 2. Over 50 of the pictures in the show are available online.

Rosenheim is the curator in charge of the Met’s photography department. His primary focus is American photography: He facilitated the Met’s acquisitions of the complete archives of photographers Walker Evans in 1994 and Diane Arbus in 2007.

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Here are all five of Donald Judd’s multicolored floor...

modernartnotes — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:27:00 -0400

Here are all five of Donald Judd’s multicolored floor pieces. (A sixth floor piece, in ‘blank’ galvanized iron, is at the Tate.) One of them, the version in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, is included in “Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works” at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts through January 4. Exhibition curator Marianne Stockebrand is this week’s guest on The Modern Art Notes Podcast.

“The Multicolored Works” is the first museum exhibition to focus on Judd’s use of color, and more specifically Judd’s use of color in the 1980s, when he discovered a process that enabled a new kind of sculpture. It includes 23 Judd sculptures as well as works on paper and collages from the collection of the Judd Foundation that reveal Judd’s creative process. The gorgeous exhibition is a shoo-in to rank highly on critics’ year-end top-ten lists.

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All of the multicolored floor pieces are untitled. From the top, where they are: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1989), Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1984), , Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf (1989-90), Museum of Modern Art, New York (1989), Herbert Collection, Ghent (1984).

Starting next week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be the...

modernartnotes — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:14:55 -0400

Starting next week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be the place to see art about the Civil War. The museum is already exhibiting “Photography and the American Civil War,” and on Monday it will open “The Civil War and American Art,” an exhibition that explores how artists addressed the war — both metaphorically and the actual thing — in their work. Modern Art Notes named the exhibition’s catalogue the best art book of 2012.

Eleanor Jones Harvey curated “The Civil War and American Art” and joined host Tyler Green on Episode No. 54 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. They discussed how artists served in the war, how and why they (mostly) painted what they did, and the layers of meanings that might — and probably should — be read into the period’s art.

Later today MANPodcast.com will “re-air” the episode featuring “Photography and the Civil War” curator Jeff Rosenheim.

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Image: Winslow Homer, Sharpshooter (detail), 1863. Collection of the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:58:00 -0400

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne Stockebrand, the curator of “Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works” and the former director of the Chinati Foundation. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, where “The Multicolored Works” is on view through January 4.

This is the first museum exhibition to focus on Judd’s use of color, and more specifically Judd’s use of color in the 1980s, when he discovered a process that enabled a new kind of sculpture. “The Multicolored Works” includes 23 Judd sculptures as well as works on paper and collages from the collection of the Judd Foundation that reveal Judd’s creative process. The gorgeous exhibition is a shoo-in to rank highly on critics’ year-end top-ten lists.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:23:32 -0400

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne Stockebrand, the curator of “Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works” and the former director of the Chinati Foundation. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, where “The Multicolored Works” is on view through January 4.

This is the cover of a 2000 European book devoted to Judd’s work in color throughout his career.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:53 -0400

This is the cover of arguably the most important English-language monograph on Judd’s work. It was published by the Tate in 2004 on the occasion of the Tate Modern’s Judd retrospective. There has never been a full-career American Judd retrospective.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:18:20 -0400

Surprisingly, there is only one significant American-published monograph on Judd’s work. This is it: David Raskin’s 2010 “Donald Judd.” The work on the cover is an untitled 1968 piece in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:25:26 -0400

This is an untitled piece from 1987.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:01:39 -0400

This is a detail of an untitled floor piece from 1989. One of just six unique Judd floor pieces, it’s in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:01:00 -0400

This is an untitled Donald Judd from 1963, an example of the two-color ‘rule’ that Stockebrand and host Tyler Green discussed on this week’s program. One of the four editions of this sculpture is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:01:27 -0400

This is a detail of an untitled work from 1985.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:01:04 -0400

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modernartnotes — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:48:40 -0400

This is a detail of an untitled work from 1985.

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modernartnotes — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:00 -0400

This detail of an untitled 1962 work in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is Judd’s final painting. Stockebrand and host Tyler Green discussed this work — in particular its being a typical mature Judd in that the artist limited himself to a palette of two colors— on this week’s show.

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modernartnotes — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:57:00 -0400

Among the topics Stockebrand and host Tyler Green discussed is how Judd arrived at colors. In an essay Judd wrote just before his death, “Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular,” Judd wrote about how important this Roger van der Weyden Crucifixion (ca. 1460) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was to him (Judd briefly lived in Philadelphia in 1947 and remembered the painting from that time): “The colors I remember are blue, not soft, and red, high and slightly rosy. In my present vocabulary, they are similar to RAL-Farben 3027, Himbeerrot, and RAL-5013.”

As Stockebrand pointed out on this week’s program, Judd wasn’t trying to copy those colors in his painting — to him they remained stolidly van der Weyden’s — but to depart from them. Pictured here are the van der Weyden and RAL-3027, the exact appearance of which may vary widely depending on your screen. At the bottom is an untitled 1989 Judd piece which may have been informed by the van der Weyden’s red. It may not be a RAL-3027-colored work/

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:00 -0400

The exhibition includes one of Judd’s six multicolored ‘floor pieces’: This untitled work from 1989 in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:55:56 -0400

This is one of the smallest pieces in the show, an untitled work from 1985.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne...

modernartnotes — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:08:56 -0400

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