The Modern Art Notes Podcast

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.

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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Earlier this year Martha Rosler took over the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium with her Meta-Monumental Garage Sale. He work is back at MoMA now in “Performing Histories (1),” an exhibition that features an even more pointed work by Rosler: She Sees in Herself a New Woman Everyday (1976). The piece is made up of 12 color photographs of a woman’s shoes and legs arranged in a grid on the floor. (A detail from one of the 12 is above.) The piece includes sound of a woman having a talk with her own mother. The piece raises questions about gender and how gender-related identity is constructed.

Rosler was the guest on Episode No. 27 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, a program that was taped in front of a live audience at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Download the program to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe via iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. See images of art Rosler and I discussed.

Here’s a first look at The Phillips Collection’s new Wolfgang Laib wax room! It opened over this past weekend. (See the full image on the Phillips’ website and read more here.)

Episode No. 63 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast featured Laib talking with host Tyler Green about the two major pieces he’s installed in the U.S. this winter: Pollen from Hazelnut in the atrium at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Phillips piece. At 18-by-21 feet, the MoMA installation is the largest pollen field Laib has made. The Phillips’ Laib Wax Room, a new permanent installation, is the first permanent installation at the Phillips since the museum opened its famed Rothko Room in 1960.

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Episode No. 60 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast featured one of the best exhibitions of recent years: Museum of Modern Art curator Leah Dickerman’s “Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art.” It’s at MoMA through April 15. 

The show excavates the origins of abstraction — both in Europe and in America — and tells the story of how networks between artists and a new age of communication and inter-disciplinary practice and awareness helped fuel experimentation.

Dickerman is one of America’s top curators of modern art. Her 2006 exhibition “Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris” was one of the best and most important shows of recent years. More recently, she organized “Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art” (2011), which she also discussed here on The MAN Podcast.

One of the topics Dickerman and host Tyler Green discussed is how Dickerman’s show is a more inclusive history of the period than many recent shows — especially because it includes many more women, such as Natalia Goncharova (shown here). 

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Image: Natalia Goncharova, Koshki (luchistoe vospr.[iiatie] rozovoe, chernoe i zheltoe) (Carts [rayist percept.(tion) in rose, black, and yellow]), 1913. Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

This screen-capture from the live webcam in the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium reveals that Wolfgang Laib’s Pollen from Hazelnut is just about installed! It opens to the public on Wednesday. At 18-by-21 feet, it will be the largest pollen field Laib has made. 

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Laib, who is installing not one but two major works in the U.S. this season. The second will be at The Phillips Collection, which will open the Laib Wax Room, a new permanent installation, on March 2. It will be the first permanent installation at the Phillips since the museum opened its Rothko Room in 1960.

Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.