Episode No. 780 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Edward Town and author Tim Barringer, and curator Leigh Arnold.
The Yale Center for British Art is presenting Town’s “John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined” through July 25, 2027. The exhibition examines Constable’s open-air paintings, pictures which helped transform European landscape painting, and which had significant impacts on United States painters too. “Constable” features works such as cloud studies, oil sketches, and two of Constable’s vaunted six-footers, including YCBA’s own Hadleigh Castle, one of the most iconic works of English landscape painting. It is the only major US exhibition of Constable’s work on the 250th anniversary of his birth. The exhibition is accompanied by Barringer’s Constable, the third installment in YCBA’s Collection Series. The book includes a contribution from Nicholas Robbins. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for $35-37.
Arnold is the curator of “Bruce Nauman: Identical” at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The exhibition features a group of polyurethane, silicone rubber, and plaster-cast animal forms, alongside a rotating selection of drawings and a 3D video, made from elements that the artist had in his New Mexico studio. It is on view through March 21, 2027.
Works discussed on the program include:
- Bruce Nauman, Animal Pyramid, 1989; and
- Bruce Nauman, Carousel (stainless steel version), 1988.
Instagram: Edward Town, Tim Barringer, Leigh Arnold, Tyler Green.
Air date: October 15, 2026.
David Lucas after John Constable, Frontispiece, Artist’s Home at East Bergholt, Suffolk, 1831.
John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames–Morning after a Stormy Night, 1829.
John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, 1828-29.
David Lucas after John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, Large Plate, 1830-32.
David Lucas after John Constable, Weymouth Bay, Dorsetshire, 1830.
JMW Turner, Solway Moss from Lilber Studiorum, 1816
Asher B. Durand, View in the Catskills, 1844.
John Constable, Cloud Study, 1822.
Installation view, “John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined.”
Installation view, “John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined.”
Installation view, “John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined.”
Installation view, “John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined.”
John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821.
John Constable, The Hay Wain, ca. 1821.
John Constable, Sketch for “The Hay Wain,” ca. 1820.
John Constable, Lane near Dedham, 1802.
John Constable, East Bergholt, ca. 1813.
John Constable, Fen Lane, East Bergholt, ca. 1811.
John Constable, Stratford Mill, 1819-20.
David Lucas afetr John Constable, Stratford Mill, The Young Waltonians, 1834-40.
John Constable, Hampstead Heath Looking Towards Harrow, 1821.
Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860.
Bruce Nauman, 11 hanging silicones, 2026.
Installation view, “Bruce Nauman: Identical.”
Bruce Nauman, 3 plaster foxes and hammer (detail), 2024.
Annibale Carracci, The Butcher’s Shop, early 1580s.
Michelangelo, St. Bartholomew from The Last Judgment (detail), 1534-41.
