Episode No. 751 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Kahlil Robert Irving and curator Rebecca Head Trautmann.

Irving is included in “Monuments,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition juxtaposes decommissioned Lost Cause monuments with artworks that address the histories the Lost Cause aimed to whitewash. “Monuments” features two Irvings: New Nation (States) Battle of Manassas – 2014, 2024-25; and Viewfinder, 2024 which address the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri and its aftermath. The exhibition, which is on view through May 3, was curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson with Hannah Burstein and Paula Kroll. The museum says that a catalogue is forthcoming.

Irving has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and at the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis; they have been featured in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and more. Irving was a guest on Episode No. 591 in 2023.

Discussed on the program:

• “Reuse, Renew Recycle: Recent Architecture from China” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York;
• Homer G. Phillips Hospital, St. Louis; and
• The Dred Scott monument in St. Louis’ Calvary Cemetery.

Trautmann is the curator of “Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe” at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. “Water’s Edge” is the first career-length survey of Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist. It is on view through January 1, 2027. Smithsonian Books published a catalogue of the exhibition; Amazon and Bookshop offer it for about $33-37.

Instagram: Kahlil Robert Irving, Tyler Green.

Air date: March 26, 2026.