No. 51: David Anfam, Mia Fineman

Episode No. 51 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators David Anfam and Mia Fineman.

Anfam is one of the leading scholars of abstract expressionism and has compiled the catalogue raisonnes of Mark Rothko and Conrad Marca-Relli. He’s the adjunct curator at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, where he has worked with director Dean Sobel on the museum’s installations. The CSM is currently showing selections from its collection along side “Vincent/Clyfford,” an installation that demonstrates how Still looked closely at van Gogh. The museum has also just published “Clyfford Still: The Artist’s Museum,” which features a major essay by Anfam on Still’s life and work. (Amazon offers the book for $25 off.)

Fineman is a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her new show, “Faking It, Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,” goes back to nearly the beginning of photography to reveal how artists have been manipulating their pictures since nearly the start of photography. (You can see a JPEG of just about every picture in the exhibition here.) The exhibition is accompanied by a terrific book, one of the best art history books of the season. It’s published by the Met and is distributed by the Yale University Press. It’s also almost $25 off via Amazon.

Air date: Oct. 25, 2012.

Clyfford Still, Untitled, 1956. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Clyfford Still, 1944-N No. 1, 1944. Collection of the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver.

Clyfford Still, Row of Elevators, ca. 1928-29. Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington.

Clyfford Still, PH-782, 1927. Collection of the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver.

Clyfford Still, PH-623, 1929-30. Collection of the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver.

Clyfford Still, PH-247, 1951. Collection of the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver.

Barnett Newman, Cathedra, 1951. Collection of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Vincent van Gogh, Sorrow, ca. 1881-83. The Garman Ryan Collection, The New Art Gallery Walsall, London.

Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857. Collection of the Musee d’Orsay, Paris.

Vincent Van Gogh, Two Peasants Digging, 1889. Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Clyfford Still, PH-77, 1937. Collection of the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver.

William Kurelek, The Ukranian Pioneer No. 6, 1971-76. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Maynard Dixon, Earth Knower, 1935. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California.

Ernest-Eugene Appert, Crimes de la Commune, 1871. Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Saint Thomas de Aquin, [Man Juggling His Own Head], ca. 1880.