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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Sophie Calle.
Calle’s work is featured in the new exhibition “The Progress of Love,” a three-venue collaborative project now on view at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, the Menil Collection in Houston and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos. The exhibition is now on view at all three venues. For closing dates at the various venues, see the exhibition website. The catalogue was published by the Yale University Press.
The Pulitzer’s section of the exhibition includes Calle’s Take Care of Yourself (2007), an installation that was first exhibited at the 2007 Venice Biennale. The piece documents how 107 women responded to a break-up letter Calle received from her lover via email. This is the first time Take Care of Yourself has been shown in an American museum.
In addition, Siglio Press has published Calle’s “The Address Book,” the first time the book has been published in its entirety in English. The artwork dates back to 1983 when it was published in Paris’ Liberation newspaper and consists of Calle’s documenting her experiences contacting the people in a lost address book she found on a Parisian street. Amazon offers the book for $20, a $10 discount.
On the second segment, Walters Art Museum curator Joaneath Spicer talks about her new show “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe,” which is on view in Baltimore through Jan. 21, 2013. The exhibition documents the increasing presence of Africans in European art from around 1400 through the 16th century. The website the Walters has put together for the show is particularly good. The exhibition’s excellent catalogue is not available via the usual online sources; it’s $25 at the Walters’ own store.
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With 10 days left in The Menil Collection’s “Silence” exhibition, here’s a special sound-art bonus for MANPodcast.com visitors and followers: A clip of Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello’s The Spaces Contained in Each (2012), a live improvisation performed live at Houston’s Rothko Chapel on July 28!
Here’s the background: The second segment of Episode No. 40 of the Modern Art Notes Podcast featured Roden and Vitiello discussing The Spaces Contained in Each. Performed in association with “Silence” at the Menil, Roden and Vitiello’s work was inspired by their shared interest in John Cage, and in particular Cage’s 4’33”.
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Image: Stephen Vitiello and Steve Roden performing at The Rothko Chapel, Houston on July 28. Photo by Sari Roden.
Special bonus for MANPodcast.com visitors, subscribers: A second clip of Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello’s The Spaces Contained in Each (2012), performed live at Houston’s Rothko Chapel on July 28, 2012!
Here’s the backgrounder: The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello discussing The Spaces Contained in Each, their recent improvised collaboration at Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Performed in association with the exhibition “Silence” at The Menil Collection, Roden and Vitiello’s work was inspired by their shared interest in John Cage, and in particular Cage’s 4’33”.
To download this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the program.
Image: Stephen Vitiello (left) and Steve Roden at their soundcheck at The Rothko Chapel, Houston on July 28. Photo by Sari Roden.
On the second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, artists Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello join me to discuss their recent collaboration in Houston. In association with the exhibition “Silence” at The Menil Collection, Roden and Vitiello performed a sound piece at The Rothko Chapel. Even cooler: Roden and Vitiello have also provided an extended audio clip from their improvised performance, The Spaces Contained in Each. It’s at the end of this week’s show, in stereo. BONUS: I’ll have a second audio clip from their performance on MANPodcast.com on Monday! Click here to follow MANPodcast.com on Tumblr.
The show’s first segment remembers Austrian artist Franz West, who died two weeks ago at age 65. West was one of European art’s most Puckish innovators. His art was playful and sly — he often encouraged viewers to pick up and play with or to sit down on his work — but it was also deeply rooted in the intellectual history of Vienna, his lifelong hometown.
Joining me to discuss West’s life and work is Darsie Alexander, the chief curator at the Walker Art Center. In 2008 Alexander curated West’s only American retrospective, which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Image: Photo of Vitiello greeting the crowd before the Roden/Vitiello performance at The Rothko Chapel on July 28. Photo by David A. Brown, courtesy of the Menil.
