The Modern Art Notes Podcast

This second guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast is Sarah Oppenheimer, a New York-based artist whose architectural interventions challenge our perception of space.

This week the Baltimore Museum of Art will re-open its remodeled contemporary wing. As part of the re-opening the museum will unveil two commissioned works by Oppenheimer that will be permanently on view at the museum. This is a detail of one of them, W-12, as seen from the second floor of the BMA (no Photoshop here!): As the viewer looks forward, on the left side she sees across the museum’s staircase. As she looks forward and to the right, she sees what’s… beneath her!

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This second guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast is Sarah Oppenheimer, a New York-based artist whose architectural interventions challenge our perception of space.

This week the Baltimore Museum of Art will re-open its remodeled contemporary wing. As part of the re-opening the museum will unveil two commissioned works by Oppenheimer that will be permanently on view at the museum. This is one of them, W-12, as seen from one of three vantage points: The museum’s contemporary wing stairwell. If it looks like the camera is positioned to look up, that’s because it is. If it seems as if the camera is seeing someone on the floor below, that’s because it is. Pretty wild, no? 

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This second guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast is Sarah Oppenheimer, a New York-based artist whose architectural interventions challenge our perception of space.

Next week the Baltimore Museum of Art will re-open its remodeled contemporary wing. As part of the re-opening the museum will unveil two commissioned works by Oppenheimer that will be permanently on view at the museum. This is one of them, P-0101 (2012). It consists of a giant diagonal cut in a limestone wall and an aluminum-and-glass insertion. It’s less peek-a-boo than it is ‘where am I?’

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This second guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast is Sarah Oppenheimer, a New York-based artist whose architectural interventions challenge our perception of space.

Next week the Baltimore Museum of Art will re-open its remodeled contemporary wing. As part of the re-opening the museum will unveil two commissioned works by Oppenheimer that will be permanently on view at the museum. This is one of them, W-12 (2012). There are no photo-tricks going on here: If the viewer looks through the aperture to the left, she sees straight ahead into a staircase. Through the right aperture, she sees the BMA gallery immediately below where she is standing. Art as real-world special-effect!

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features one of Europe’s best-known and most-admired artists: Olafur Eliasson. 

This is Eliasson’s Multiple grotto (2004), which is in the collection of (and often on view at) the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art has a related work, Flower observatory (2004). The best part: As you can see here, you walk into these pieces! 

An exhibition of Eliasson’s newest photographs — featuring his ancestral homeland of Iceland — opens this week at Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Also, Taschen has just published a new edition of “Studio Olafur Eliasson,” a 532-page ‘encyclopedia’ of Eliasson’s studio practice. (It’s available on Amazon for $25, a 40 percent discount.)

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Martha Rosler. An exhibition of Rosler’s pictures of Cuba, taken in January, 1981, are on view now at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea. Rosler and I talked last week in front of a live audience at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Rosler has been the subject of dozens of major exhibitions, including the 1999 retrospectinve “Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World,” which was organized by Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Generali Foundation, Vienna. That show traveled throughout Europe and to the New Museum and the International Center of Photography in New York. She will receive her first solo show at the Museum of Modern Art this fall when her Meta-Monumental Garage Sale takes over MoMA’s atrium for 13 days at the end of November.

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Image: Martha Rosler, The Gray Drape, 2008. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington.