The Modern Art Notes Podcast

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Kate Shepherd. Her work is included in the group show “The Artist’s Palette: The Primary Colors on Paper” at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. It’s on view through June 2. Many images of Shepherd’s work are available at her website.

This is a detail of Shepherd’s Wallpaper (2012). On this program, Shepherd and host Tyler Green talk about her interest in the primary colors.

Shepherd’s work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Chinati Foundation and at The Phillips Collection. Her work is in the collection of museums such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Seattle Art Museum. 

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is currently exhibiting “Portraits of Spain: Masterpieces of the Prado,” an exhibition of Spanish painting from one of the world’s greatest museums. 

Episode No. 31 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast featured a rare treat: A visit from Jonathan Brown, America’s top historian of Spanish art. Brown had just come out with his updated “Murillo: Virtuoso Draftsman,” a catalogue raisonne of drawings by the great Spanish Golden Age artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo. The book was published by Yale University Press.

This is a detail from one of three Murillos in the Houston show, a Virgin and Child from 1655-65. Murillo painted many versions of this subject, but this one is particularly tender. Note the way that Mary seems to be reluctant to let her son leave her protection… and in turn, he seems reluctant to leave as well. (Or is his right arm actually the beginning of a push away from her?) 

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features the new Museum of Fine Arts Houston exhibition “War Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath.” Anne Wilkes Tucker, the show’s co-curator (along with MFAH’s Will Michaels and Natalie Zelt) joins me to discuss the exhibition and the related 600-page book from the MFAH and the Yale University Press.

The show, which opens this weekend and runs through February 3, includes almost 500 objects, images by more than 280 photographers on six continents, all of it covering 165 years of war. The exhibition and catalogue are presented thematically, with sections on war-related topics such as recruitment, training, daily routine, patrol, the wait, the fight itself, leisure time and more.

On the second segment I talk with 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 on view permanently at the museum. Photographs of the installations were unavailable as of show-time. When they become available I’ll add them here and feature them via social media, especially on our new Facebook page.

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Image: Luis Sinco, Marlboro Marine (detail), November 8, 2004. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.