Episode No. 672 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Kimberly A. Jones and Mary Morton; and curators Sant Khalsa and Juniper Harrower.
Along with Sylvie Patry and Anne Robbins, Jones and Morton are the curators of “1874: The Impressionist Moment” at the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition examines the condition of Parisian art in 1874, both official standards exhibited at and effectively promoted via the official salon, and the renegade works exhibited at the first impressionist exhibition. Included are impressionist stalwarts such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, and also salon lions such as William Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme. The smart, delightful catalogue was published by the Musee d’Orsay and the NGA. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for about $46-60. “1874” is on view through January 19, 2025.
Khalsa and Harrower are the curators of “Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees” at the Lancaster (Calif.) Museum of Art and History. Part of this year’s sprawling Getty PST ART initiative, it’s on view through December 29. “Desert Forest” examines how artists from Carleton Watkins to Cara Romero to Nancy Baker Cahill have presented Joshua trees and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem in their work. A fine catalogue was published by Inlandia Institute. It’s available from MOAH.
As discussed on the program:
Harrower’s Department of Floristic Welfare.
Instagram: Mary Morton, Kimberly Jones, Sant Khalsa, Juniper Harrower, Tyler Green.
Air date: September 19, 2024.
Edouard Manet, The Railway, 1873.
Auguste Ottin, Bust of Ingres, 1840.
Félix Bracquemond, The Road Leading to Bellevue, 1873.
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872.
Jean-Léon Gérôme, L’Eminence Grise, 1873.
Henriette Browne, A Poet The Copts in Upper Egypt, 1874.
Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié, Gloria Victis, 1874/79.
Edouard Manet, Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume, 1862.
Ludovic Napoleon Lepic, Jupiter, 1861.
Ludovic Napoleon Lepic, Cesar, 1861.
Giuseppe De Nittis, Road in Italy, 1870.
Eva Gonzàles, A Box at the Théâtre des Italiens, ca. 1874.
Eugène Boudin, Study of the Sky at Sunset, ca. 1862-70.
Claude Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877.
Paul Cezanne, The House of the Hanged Man, Auvers-sur-Oise, ca. 1873.
Charles-Francois Daubigny, The Fields in June, 1874.
Claude Monet, Fishing Boats Leaving the Harbor, Le Havre, 1874.
Carleton Watkins, Paper Tree, Yucca draconis, Mojave Desert, 1877.
Cara Romero, For the Cahuilla Boy, 2014.
Cara Romero, Towük Kani (We Are Home), 2023.
Matthew Brandt, Joshua Tree S06, 2023.
Jessie Homer French, Mojave Burning, 2021.
Installation view, Juniper Harrower, Ecologies of Care, 2024.
Installation view, Juniper Harrower, Ecologies of Care, 2024.
Installation view, Juniper Harrower, Ecologies of Care, 2024.
Danielle Giudici Wallis, Walmart, Highway 62, 2022.
Rob Grad, The Holes That Can’t Be Filled, 2022.
Catherine Ruane, Dance Me To the Edge, 2017-2024.
Maryrose Crook, Kingdom of the Moth, 2023.
Darin Boville, Day Grid, nd.
Darin Boville, Evening Grid, nd.
Sant Khalsa, Alter (the Future), 1991-2024.
Sant Khalsa, Alter (the Future) (detail), 1991-2024.
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