Episode No. 646 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Edouard Kopp and Shelley Langdale.
With Kim Conaty, Kopp is the co-curator of “Ruth Asawa: Through Line,” a survey of Asawa’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition, which at Houston’s Menil Collection through July 21, presents drawings, collages, watercolors, sketchbooks, paper-folds and other work. The show is accompanied by an excellent catalogue, published by the Menil and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $36-$46. (Kirsten Marples and Scout Hutchinson assisted Kopp and Conaty.)
Langdale is the curator of “The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy,” an exhibition of German expressionist works on paper from the rich collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The show features a wide range of rarely exhibited (and little-known) drawings, as well as prints. It is on view through May 27.
Air date: March 21, 2024.
Ruth Asawa, Redwood 356 (PF.1012), 1960.
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (SD.012, Tied-Wire Sculpture Drawing with Six-Branch Center and Drops at the Ends), c. 1970s.
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (BMC.74, Double Sheet Stamp), 1948.
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (BMC.75, Double Sheet Clusters), ca. 1948–49.
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (SF.045a, Potato Print – Branches, Magenta_Orange), ca. 1951–52.
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (SF.030, Blue Triangles on Brown), c. late 1950s.
Georg Erhlich, Pietà, 1923.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Men Splashing in the Reeds, 1910.
Otto Mueller, Two Bathers, ca. 1920.
Otto Mueller, Finding of Moses, ca. 1920.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Woman in the Woods, 1921.
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Man), 2017.
Walter Gramatte, The Great Anxiety (Self-Portrait, in Three-Quarter Profile to the Right), 1918.
Nicole Eisenman, Beer Garden, 2012-17.
Max Beckmann, Group Portrait, Eden Bar, 1923.
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