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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features three critics discussing their impressions of the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Guests include:
Christopher Knight, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the art critic of the Los Angeles Times; Tom Freudenheim, the former director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal; James Russell, the architecture critic for Bloomberg.
Discussed at length: The Chaim Soutines at the Barnes, easily the best place in America to see a range of Soutine’s work.
Knight reviewed the show here for the LAT. Russell reviewed the building here for Bloomberg. I wrote about the new Barnes here on MAN.
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Image: Chaim Soutine, The White Hat (detail), ca. 1923.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features three critics discussing their impressions of the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Joining me are:
Christopher Knight, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the art critic of the Los Angeles Times; Tom Freudenheim, the former director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal; James Russell, the architecture critic for Bloomberg.
Knight reviewed the show here for the LAT. Russell reviewed the building here for Bloomberg. I wrote about the new Barnes here on MAN.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here.
Image: Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de vivre, 1905-06.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features three critics discussing their impressions of the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Joining me are:
Christopher Knight, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the art critic of the Los Angeles Times; Tom Freudenheim, the former director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal; James Russell, the architecture critic for Bloomberg.
Knight reviewed the show here for the LAT. Russell reviewed the building here for Bloomberg. I wrote about the new Barnes here on MAN.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here.
This is Drowning Girl (1963), one of Roy Lichtenstein’s first comic-strip-referencing paintings. Lichtenstein, a fan and student of art history, said that the painting was inspired by Hokusai’s famed woodcut The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa (1829-32).
The painting is included in the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features the exhibition’s curator, James Rondeau, the head of the contemporary art department at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition is the first career-length survey of Lichtenstein’s art and the first retrospective of the artist in 18 years.
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Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, 1963. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
This is a detail from Cold Shoulder (1963), Roy Lichtenstein’s first painting to refer to a comic strip. According to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the painting’s home:
The artist’s son, actor Mitchell Lichtenstein, claims a bit of credit for his father’s very first comic-style painting.
“One day, when I was about five and my brother David was seven, we told our father that he wasn’t a real artist, because he didn’t paint anything people could recognize. To please us, he reproduced this comic strip image, and something clicked. In that moment Roy realized a new personal style.”
The painting is included in the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features the exhibition’s curator, James Rondeau, the head of the contemporary art department at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition is the first career-length survey of Lichtenstein’s art and the first retrospective of the artist in 18 years.
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Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Cold Shoulder (detail), 1963. Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Click here to see a JPEG of the entire painting.
It’s Roy Lichtenstein week at the Art Institute of Chicago — and on The Modern Art Notes Podcast! This week’s program features James Rondeau, the head of the contemporary art department at the Art Institute of Chicago, talking about his new Lichtenstein retrospective. Rondeau co-organized the exhibition with Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Sheena Wagstaff. The exhibition is the first career-length survey of Lichtenstein’s art and the first retrospective of the artist in 18 years.
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Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam! (detail), 1963. Collection of Tate, London. Click here to see the full image.
You can’t talk about Roy Lichtenstein without talking about art history. Here’s one of Roy Lichtenstein’s riffs on Henri Matisse, complete with goldfish, drawings, an arabesque, a cityscape and a semi-still-life on a tabletop. (Click on the image or here to see the entire painting.) I’ve opened photo-replying on this post: If you think you know Matisse paintings/drawings that informed this Lichtenstein painting, Still Life with Goldfish (1974) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reply with a JPEG!
It’s Roy Lichtenstein week on The Modern Art Notes Podcast! This week’s program features James Rondeau, the head of the contemporary art department at the Art Institute of Chicago, talking about his new Lichtenstein retrospective. It opens to the public tomorrow. The exhibition is the first career-length survey of Lichtenstein’s art and the first retrospective of the artist in 18 years.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. Click here to see images of art discussed on the show.
Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Still Life with Goldfish, 1974. Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
It’s Roy Lichtenstein week at the Art Institute of Chicago — and on The Modern Art Notes Podcast! This week’s program features James Rondeau, the head of the contemporary art department at the Art Institute of Chicago, talking about his new Lichtenstein retrospective. Rondeau co-organized the exhibition with Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Sheena Wagstaff. The exhibition is the first career-length survey of Lichtenstein’s art and the first retrospective of the artist in 18 years.
Rouen Cathedral V (1969), a detail of which Tumblr is showing above, is informed by Claude Monet’s paintings of Rouen Cathedral, which have their own spiffy, JPEG-laden Wikipedia page.
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Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral V (detail), 1969. Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Click here to see the full image.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art curator Keith Davis on his exhibition “Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs,” which is on view in Kansas City through September 2. O’Sullivan is one of the pioneers of American photography and took many of his most important pictures while exploring and chronicling the West with Clarence King. Don’t miss the exhibition catalogue, which is one of this year’s top books on American art.
This remarkable picture features a group of Shoshone. Note that O’Sullivan (and perhaps survey leader Clarence King) have posed the Shoshone with an American flag, a reference to the American conquest of Western lands and tribes. Note also O’Sullivan himself — or at least his shadow — in the lower-left. A 2,500-pixel-wide version with much more detail is available here, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. It’s well-worth the click!
On the first segment of this week’s program, I talk with James Rondeau, the head of the contemporary art department at the Art Institute of Chicago, talking about his new Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. Rondeau co-organized the exhibition with Sheena Wagstaff, the head of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition is the first career-length survey of Lichtenstein’s art and the first retrospective of the artist in 18 years.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. Click here to see images of art discussed on the show.
Image: Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Shoshoni, 1867-72. Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Mo., Library of Congress, Washington and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (from which this image comes).
