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.

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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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wangechi Mutu. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is currently showing “Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey,” the first mid-career survey of Mutu’s work. Curated by the Nasher’s Trevor Schoonmaker, the exhibition is on view through July 21. On May 23 the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney will debut a concurrent (but obviously different) Mutu survey. It will be up through August 14.

Mutu was born in Nairobi, Kenya, schooled in Wales and New York and lives in Brooklyn. Her work, which began as mostly collage-based but has evolved to include sculpture and room-sized installations. The winner of the 2010 Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year,” Mutu has been featured in solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Pace, the Miami Art Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, the Art Gallery of Ontario and more.

This is a detail from Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies (2005) from the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Garry Winogrand

There are about six weeks left to see the Garry Winogrand retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It closes on June 2. 

Episode No. 70 of The  Modern Art Notes Podcast featured photographer and essayist Leo Rubinfien, who curated the show. He was a fantastic guest who told great stories and shared some smart insights.

Winogrand’s pictures, typically taken with a hand-held camera, are classics of the street-photography genre that dominated American photography in the 1950s and ’60s. They captured American prosperity, the flight to the suburbs, the tumult of the Vietnam era and the retreat of Americans into a kind of self-interested hedonism in the 1970s and early ’80s.

Among the subjects that interested Winogrand was politics, whether at the city level (as in Kalamzaoo, Mich.) or at the national level. As he progressed through his career, Winogrand became more and more interested in politics-as-spectacle, a subject Rubinfien and host Tyler Green discussed on this week’s program. 

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features photographer and essayist Leo Rubinfien, who curated the Garry Winogrand retrospective on view through June 2 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Winogrand’s pictures, typically taken with a hand-held camera, are classics of the street-photography genre that dominated American photography in the 1950s and ’60s. They captured American prosperity, the flight to the suburbs, the tumult of the Vietnam era and the retreat of Americans into a kind of self-interested hedonism in the 1970s and early ’80s.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Garry Winogrand

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features photographer and essayist Leo Rubinfien, who curated the Garry Winogrand retrospective on view through June 2 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Winogrand’s pictures, typically taken with a hand-held camera, are classics of the street-photography genre that dominated American photography in the 1950s and ’60s. They captured American prosperity, the flight to the suburbs, the tumult of the Vietnam era and the retreat of Americans into a kind of self-interested hedonism in the 1970s and early ’80s.

Among the subjects that interested Winogrand was politics, whether at the city level (as in Kalamzaoo, Mich.) or at the national level. As he progressed through his career, Winogrand became more and more interested in politics-as-spectacle, a subject Rubinfien and host Tyler Green discussed on this week’s program. 

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features photographer and essayist Leo Rubinfien, who curated the Garry Winogrand retrospective on view through June 2 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Winogrand’s pictures, typically taken with a hand-held camera, are classics of the street-photography genre that dominated American photography in the 1950s and ’60s. They captured American prosperity, the flight to the suburbs, the tumult of the Vietnam era and the retreat of Americans into a kind of self-interested hedonism in the 1970s and early ’80s.