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No. 35: Brian Sholis, Mark Ruwedel

Episode No. 35 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Brian Sholis and artist Mark Ruwedel. 

The program spotlights a new exhibition at New York’s apexart titled “The Permanent Way.” The show looks at the continuing impact of the railroads on the way American artists look at landscape. The exhibition is on view through July 28.

Sholis is a New York-based writer, editor and PhD candidate at the City University of New York. He is the co-editor of “The Uncertain States of America Reader,” a 2006 anthology of writing on contemporary art and politics. He contributes to Artforum, where he was previously an editor and to magazines such as Aperture, Art in America, Bookforum and Frieze. His essay for “The Permanent Way” is available (for free) here.

Ruwedel is a California-based photographer whose work frequently examines the ways in which Americans have impacted the land in the American West. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SFMOMA and more. The book related to the project discussed on this week’s show, “Westward the Course of Empire,” was published in 2008 by the Yale University Press.

Air date: July 5, 2012.

W.E. Tunis, Railroad Map of the United States & Canada, 1859.

W.E. Tunis, Railroad Map of the United States & Canada, 1859.

Harry Gannett/US Census Office, Railroad Systems, 1890, 1898.

Harry Gannett/US Census Office, Railroad Systems, 1890, 1898.

Get the Safety Cable [Orange Train #1], ca. 1910.

Get the Safety Cable [Orange Train #1], ca. 1910.

Famous Horse Shoe Curve, on Main Line PRR, ca. 1910.

Famous Horse Shoe Curve, on Main Line PRR, ca. 1910.

Mark Ruwedel, San Diego and Arizona Eastern #7 from the series "Westward the Course of Empire," 2003.

Mark Ruwedel, San Diego and Arizona Eastern #7 from the series “Westward the Course of Empire,” 2003.

Gustave Courbet, Origin of the World, 1866. Collection of the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

Gustave Courbet, Origin of the World, 1866. Collection of the Musee d’Orsay, Paris.

Mark Ruwedel, Kettle Valley #29 from the series "Westward the Course of Empire," 1999.

Mark Ruwedel, Kettle Valley #29 from the series “Westward the Course of Empire,” 1999.

Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (VS-10-10), Train from Cristo Rey, Sunland Park, NM, from the series “The Border”, 2010.

Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (VS-10-10), Train from Cristo Rey, Sunland Park, NM, from the series “The Border”, 2010.

Victoria Sambunaris, Wendover, UT from the series "The Border," 2007.

Victoria Sambunaris, Wendover, UT from the series “The Border,” 2007.

James Welling, Hagerstown, MD, 1991.

James Welling, Hagerstown, MD, 1991.

Jeff Brouws, Railroad Landscape #21, former Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut right-of-way (abandoned 1938), MP 24, view south, Summer, Anon's Crossing, New York, 2010

Jeff Brouws, Railroad Landscape #21, former Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut right-of-way (abandoned 1938), MP 24, view south, Summer, Anon’s Crossing, New York, 2010

Justine Kurland, Three Riders, UP Mixed Freight, 2012.

Justine Kurland, Three Riders, UP Mixed Freight, 2012.

Justine Kurland, Donner Pass, 2008.

Justine Kurland, Donner Pass, 2008.

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