Episode No. 4 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Jennifer Steinkamp and historian David Raskin.
Steinkamp’s work work is on view now at the New Orleans Museum of Art as part of Prospect 2, the New Orleans-based biennial organized by curator Dan Cameron. The work will be at NOMA through January 29. Madame Curie (2011), a commission that she created for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, is on view at the museum’s downtown Jacobs Building through January 2.
Steinkamp was the subject of a 2006 mid-career survey organized by the San Jose Museum of Art and she’s exhibited all over the world, including in the Corcoran, SITE Santa Fe, Gwangju and Istanbul Biennials.
On the second segment, School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor and chair of art history, theory and criticism David Raskin and host Tyler Green discuss artworks in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition “The Language of Less (Then and Now).” Raskin wrote an essay for the show’s catalogue. The show was curated by Michael Darling. It’s on view through April 8.
Air date: Dec. 1, 2011.

Jennifer Steinkamp, The Vanquished, 2011. As installed at the New Orleans Museum of Art for Prospect 2.