Episode No. 119 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist David Bates.
The program was taped in front of a live audience on February 11 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Bates is the subject of a two-museum retrospective on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center and MAMFW. Both shows are on view through May 11. The Nasher show features mostly sculptures, but also paintings and works on paper. The MAMFW show features Bates’ paintings. Bates’ work has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, including most recently the 2010 “The Katrina Paintings” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.
Bates’ work is in numerous museum collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Air date: Feb. 13, 2014.
![David Bates, The Storm (Super Dome) [left], 2006-07. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.](https://modernartnotespodcast.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bates-the-storm-l-600.jpg?w=1100)
David Bates, The Storm (Super Dome) [left], 2006-07. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.
![David Bates, The Storm (Super Dome) [center], 2006-07. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.](https://modernartnotespodcast.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bates-the-storm-c-600.jpg?w=1100)
David Bates, The Storm (Super Dome) [center], 2006-07. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.
![David Bates, The Storm (Super Dome) [right], 2006-07. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.](https://modernartnotespodcast.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bates-the-storm-r-600.jpg?w=1100)
David Bates, The Storm (Super Dome) [right], 2006-07. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.