Posts tagged Sebastian Smee
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.
My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”
Freud’s most famous late work is likely his 2001 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, shown here.
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Image: Lucian Freud, Queen Elizabeth II (detail), 2001. The Royal Collection, London.
Is the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston too besotted with unchallenging art, private wealth and with the baubles of the fortunate, and not enough interested in intellectual inquiry?
On this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee address that question, one he’s raised repeatedly this summer in the Globe.
Also discussed on this week’s show: Painter Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.
Smee was a friend of Freud’s and has written several books on his work. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year, also joins me.
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.
Image: A Dale Chihuly at the MFA Boston. Photo via Flickr user Christopher S. Penn.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.
My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”
Both Auping and Smee talk with me about how Freud exists outside the usual modernist narrative… but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t occasionally fit right in (albeit over half-a-century late). Take this painting, Standing by the Rags (1988-89), in which Freud flattens space in a manner that recalls an early modernist master. Is Freud’s model lying down? Or is she standing?
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Image: Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags, 1988-89. Collection of Tate, London.
Is the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston too besotted with wealth and the baubles of the fortunate, and not enough interested in intellectual inquiry?
On this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee address that question, one he’s raised repeatedly this summer in the Globe.
Also discussed on this week’s show: Painter Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.
Smee was a friend of Freud’s and has written several books on his work. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year, also joins me.
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.
Image: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, via the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism Flickr stream.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.
My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”
Among the Freud portraits that Auping and I discuss is this one, of a painter friend we’re more used to seeing as a blur…. it’s Francis Bacon!
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.
Image: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, 1952. Collection of Tate, London.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.
My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year.
Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.
Image: Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-Portrait) (detail), 1985.
