The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Canadians Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are now the subject of a “selected survey” at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. The exhibition opened earlier this month and is on view through August 18. The exhibition includes major works such as The Muriel Lake Incident (1999) and Storm Room (2009) and Cardiff’s The Forty-Part Motet (2001, detail above) in the Henry Moore sculpture gallery. 

This is a still from The Paradise Institute, which Cardiff and Miller showed when the represented Canada in the Venice Biennale. This work is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland through June 9.

Cardiff and Bures Miller were the guests on Episode No. 38 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Host Tyler Green asked them about their works at last year’s Documenta, the relationship between their work and trompe l’oeil and how they pick sounds to use in their works — and why many sounds often pop up again and again, in multiple pieces.

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Canadians Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are now the subject of a “selected survey” at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. The exhibition opened earlier this month and is on view through August 18. The exhibition includes major works such as The Muriel Lake Incident (1999) and Storm Room (2009) and Cardiff’s The Forty-Part Motet (2001, detail above) in the Henry Moore sculpture gallery. 

Many of Cardiff and Miller’s works are also available in varioius forms on their website.

Cardiff and Bures Miller were the guests on Episode No. 38 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Host Tyler Green asked them about their works at last year’s Documenta, the relationship between their work and trompe l’oeil and how they pick sounds to use in their works — and why many sounds often pop up again and again, in multiple pieces.

How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.

Episode No. 38 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. The Canadian duo’s The Murder of Crows (2008) is receiving its U.S. debut at New York’s Park Avenue Armory where it will remain on view for a couple more weeks, through September 9. This is a picture of the NYC installation, shot from above. For more installation views, see the Park Avenue Armory’s Facebook photo album.

Cardiff and Bures Miller are also showing two new pieces at Documenta, in Kassel, Germany through September 16. (We talked about those works on the show as well.) Don’t miss the Cardiff-and-Miller-provided YouTube videos of the Documenta pieces: The Alter Bahnhof Video Walk, of which the YouTube video provides a strikingly good experience, and Forest (for a thousand years).

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Image: Cardiff and Miller, The Murder of Crows, 2008.

The Murder of Crows, a 2008 sound installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, is now on view at the Park Avenue Armory. The presentation in New York is the work’s American debut and remains on view through September 9. More pictures of the NYC install are available here.

Last week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast featured Cardiff and Bures Miller talking about The Murder of Crows and lots, lots more. Cardiff and Bures Miller are also showing two new pieces at Documenta, in Kassel, Germany through September 16, and we talked about those too.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. The Canadian duo’s The Murder of Crows (2008) will receive its U.S. debut at New York’s Park Avenue Armory on Friday and will remain on view through September 9. Cardiff and Bures Miller are also showing two new pieces at Documenta, in Kassel, Germany through September 16.

The Paradise Institute (2001, pictured above, must-see video/audio of the piece here) is one of the pieces we discuss on this week’s show, particularly when Cardiff and Miller and I discuss their interest in the audio version of trompe l’oeil and the relationship between their art and trompe l’oeil painting.  

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Image: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, The Paradise Institute, 2001. Collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s Alter Bahnhof Video Walk may be one of the big hits of Documenta in Kassel, Germany, but there’s a Cardiff video walk closer to home that’s wowing audiences too.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has included Cardiff’s The Telephone Room (2001, above) in its exhibition “Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media.” The 15-minute video walk, which is in SFMOMA’s collection, starts just outside the museum’s auditorium and leads visitors through stairwells, hallways and the museum’s collection galleries. Because SFMOMA is closing in 2013 for an expansion project, this may be the last time visitors can experience the Cardiff. (SFMOMA visitors may pick up the The Telephone Room in the museum’s lobby, at the same stand that’s been set up for the Cindy Sherman audio tour.) Read more about the piece on Cardiff and Miller’s website — and hear an audio excerpt too!

On this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, Cardiff, Miller and I discussed how they make these video walks, whether Cardiff worried that audiences wouldn’t follow her instructions, and how they hope their audience is entertainingly confused by the surreal audio + video + real world they construct.  

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On Friday Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s The Murder of Crows (2008) will receive its U.S. debut at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. It will remain on view through September 9. 

The point of departure for the installation was Goya’s etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1797-99, detail above), plate No. 43 in “The Caprichos” series, and the etching originally intended to be the frontispiece of the portfolio. On this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, Cardiff and Miller explain why Goya’s etching interested them when they made the piece in 2008, at the end of the George W. Bush administration. 

Images from European installations of The Murder of Crows are here. Plus: There’s an audio excerpt from the piece on this week’s MAN Podcast!

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. The Canadian duo’s The Murder of Crows (2008) will receive its U.S. debut at New York’s Park Avenue Armory on August 3 and will remain on view through September 9. Cardiff and Bures Miller are also showing two new pieces at Documenta, in Kassel, Germany through September 16.

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Image: Cardiff and Miller, The Murder of Crows, 2008.