The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Garry Winogrand, Laughing Woman with Ice Cream Cone, 1968.

On the second segment of this week’s show, Denver Art Museum curator Eric Paddock and I discuss photographer Garry Winogrand. Fifty photographs from Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series are on view now at the Denver Art Museum.

The show’s lead guest is Mitch Epstein. His work is in the collection of virtually every major museum in the world. He was the winner of the 2011 Prix Pictet for his series “American Power.” His most recent work, an examination of the trees of New York City, is on view now at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea.

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Mitch Epstein, Untitled, New York, 1996. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mitch Epstein. As this photograph demonstrates, Epstein’s new photographs of the trees of New York City aren’t his first pictures of his adopted hometown. He has photographed New York plenty of times before, including here in 1996. On this week’s MAN Podcast, Epstein talks about being watched and how various security forces were unnerved by his presence as he made his “American Power” series. (He tells some great stories, so don’t miss ‘em!) I bet Epstein, more than most of us, is acutely aware of surveillance…

Epstein is one of America’s most prominent and most honored photographers. His work is in the collection of virtually every major museum in the world. He was the winner of the 2011 Prix Pictet for his series “American Power.” His most recent work, the aforementioned examination of the trees of New York City, is on view now at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea.

On the second segment of this week’s MAN Podcast, Denver Art Museum curator Eric Paddock and I discuss work by Epstein’s teacher, Garry Winogrand. Fifty photographs from Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series are on view now at the Denver Art Museum.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here or click on the image. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of more of the works discussed on this week’s show, click through to Modern Art Notes.

Garry Winogrand, Woman with Teardrop Earring, 1975.

On the second segment of this week’s show, Denver Art Museum curator Eric Paddock and I discuss photographer Garry Winogrand. Fifty photographs from Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series are on view now at the Denver Art Museum.

The show’s lead guest is Mitch Epstein. His work is in the collection of virtually every major museum in the world. He was the winner of the 2011 Prix Pictet for his series “American Power.” His most recent work, an examination of the trees of New York City, is on view now at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here or click on the image. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of more of the works discussed on this week’s show, click through to Modern Art Notes.

Mitch Epstein, American Elm, Central Park, New York, 2012, 2012.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mitch Epstein.

Epstein is one of America’s most prominent and most honored photographers. His work is in the collection of virtually every major museum in the world. He was the winner of the 2011 Prix Pictet for his series “American Power.” His most recent work, an examination of the trees of New York City, is on view now at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea.

On the second segment of this week’s MAN Podcast, Denver Art Museum curator Eric Paddock and I discuss work by Epstein’s teacher, Garry Winogrand. Fifty photographs from Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series are on view now at the Denver Art Museum.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here or click on the image. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of more of the works discussed on this week’s show, click through to Modern Art Notes.

Mitch Epstein, Eastern Cottonwood Tree, Staten Island II 2011, 2011.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mitch Epstein.

Epstein is one of America’s most prominent and most honored photographers. His work is in the collection of virtually every major museum in the world and has been exhibited recently at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. He was the winner of the 2011 Prix Pictet for his series “American Power.” His most recent work, an examination of the trees of New York City, is on view now at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea. (The gallery has an unusually good website: Click-through to see large images of all the works in the show, plus installation shots.)

Epstein and I discuss:

• After spending several years traveling to make “American Power” and to work in Berlin, why he chose to focus on trees in his own city;
• The unexpected, often disjunctive relationships he noticed between trees and the neighborhoods in which he found them;
• How trees began to interest him as he was working on “American Power”;
• The trees of “American Power”; and
• How the history of trees in photography motivated his new work.

On the second segment of this week’s show, Denver Art Museum curator Eric Paddock and I discuss work by Epstein’s teacher, Garry Winogrand. Fifty photographs from Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series are on view now at the Denver Art Museum.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here or click on the image. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of more of the works discussed on this week’s show, click through to Modern Art Notes.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is an independent production of Modern Art Notes Media. It is released under this Creative Commons license. 

Richard Serra standing in Two Corner Cut: High Low (2012), a site-specific drawing he just created for The Menil Collection in Houston.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Richard Serra, our greatest living sculptor. A retrospective of his drawings has just opened at its originating institution, The Menil Collection. It will be on view through June 10.  The exhibition was previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It was organized by the Menil’s Michelle White and Bernice Rose, and SFMOMA’s Gary Garrels.

The Menil installation results in an exhibition that bears virtually no resemblance to the presentation at the Met. The spaces are more thoughtfully created to emphasize the physicality of the work and they’re better-lit. The show’s narrative is clearer. Just as great: Serra has created a site-specific drawing for the Menil, Two Corner Cut: High Low. White and Serra have installed it in the last gallery of the show — and to me it’s the best work there. It’s the rare, remarkable drawing that leaves a viewer feeling unsteady and disoriented.

On the program, Serra and I discuss:

• How the Met’s installation of the exhibition stacks up against the Menil’s presentation;
• The new, site-specific drawing installation he did for the Menil, Two Corner Cut: High Low;
• The role drawing played in Serra’s acceptance into Yale’s art school;
• The relationship between steel and Serra’s formative years in San Francisco;
• Why Serra thinks there’s a link between his landmark Pulitzer Piece and the first anti-Vietnam War newspaper editorial;
• The emotional responses that viewers have to his torqued ellipses and spirals, complete with special on-tape appearances by Kirk Varnedoe and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; and
• What happened when Richard Serra cut into one of Tadao Ando’s architectural models as he suggested a modification to an Ando design.

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. You can stream the program and see more images of artworks discussed on the podcast here.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is an independent production of Modern Art Notes Media. It is released under this Creative Commons license. This week’s program was edited by Wilson Butterworth. 

You can also stream the show from the MANPodcast.com post immediately below this one.

Shirin Neshat, Way In Way Out from the “Women of Allah” series, 1994. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This artwork has just gone on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the exhibition “Contemporary Iranian Art from the Permanent Collection.” The show, installed in the museum’s new suite of Islamic art galleries, will stay on view through September 3.

A few weeks ago Shirin Neshat was my guest on Episode No. 11 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. We talked about her art, Iran, her hopes for her home country and more. Download the program here. You can see images of Neshat’s newest work as well as other artworks we discussed during the program here.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sea of Buddha, 1995.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts curator Francesca Herndon-Consagra, who joins me to discuss “Reflections of the Buddha,” on view at the Pulitzer through March 10. Among the topics we discuss is how Buddhism informed the work of Pulitzer architect Tadao Ando, a non-Buddhist. The museum recently published its online catalogue for the show. No one does this exhibition-specific micro-sites better than the Pulitzer: The pictures are fantastic and plentiful and there’s plenty of smart information available.

The first guest on the program is trickster-cum-artist Tom Friedman, whose first New York show in six years opens this weekend at Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine gallery. Friedman is also included in “Lifelike,” a major exhibition opening this month at the Walker Art Center. The show will travel to the New Orleans Museum of Art, MCASD and to the Blanton.

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. For more images of the works discussed on this week’s program, click here.