Episode No. 121 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Vivien Greene and Veronica Roberts.
The program considers “Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. It is the first overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States. It’s on view through September 1.
The first guest is Guggenheim curator Vivien Greene, who organized the show. Greene’s previous exhibitions include “The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914–18,” (which she co-organized with Mark Antliff), “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” and “Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy.”
On the second segment, Blanton Museum of Art curator Veronica Roberts details her new exhibition “Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt,” which examines the two artists’ friendship and the ways in which they informed each other’s work. The exhibition is accompanied by an excellent catalogue co-published by the Blanton and Yale University Press. It reproduces not only numerous works by the two artists, but marvelous examples of their correspondence. It’s available from Amazon for just $25. The exhibition is on view through May 18.
Air date: Feb. 27, 2014.
Ivo Pannaggi, Speeding Train, 1922.
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio), 1913 (cast 1949). Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound, 1913-14. Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Etienne-Jules Marey, Morin, Walk, 1886.
Giacomo Balla, Iridescent Interpenetration No. 7, 1912. Collection of the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin.
Giacomo Balla, Lines of Movement and Dynamic Succession, 1913.
Giacomo Balla, Sketch for Man’s Suit, 1914.
Giacomo Balla, Balbo and the Transatlantic Fliers, 1931.
Gino Severini, Cannons in Action, 1915.
Gino Severini, Armored Train in Action, 1915. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gino Severini, Cannons in Action, 1915.
Tato, The Perfect Bourgeois, 1930. Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Filippo Masoero, Descending over Saint Peter, ca. 1927–37 (possibly 1930–33).
Mario Bellusi, Modern Traffic in Ancient Rome, 1930.
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #46 (detail), 1970.
Page one of Sol LeWitt’s April 14, 1965 letter to Eva Hesse.
Eva Hesse, Accession V, 1968.
Eva Hesse, No title, 1963.
Eva Hesse, Metronomic Irregularity II, 1966.
Sol LeWitt, Nine Boxes, 1963.
