Blog Profile / Modern Art Notes
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| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Donald Judd
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne Stockebrand, the curator of “Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works” and the former director of the Chinati Foundation. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, where “The Multicolored Works” is on view through January 4.
This is the first museum exhibition [...]
Ten thoughts on the new St. Louis Chipperfield
The Saint Louis Art Museum opens its new David Chipperfield-designed wing next month. The addition provides the museum with 30 percent more gallery space than it has now, 21 new galleries in all, including new galleries for special exhibitions. (The museum’s former special exhibitions space has been converted into European painting, sculpture and works on paper [...]
Back Wednesday
I’m traveling today. Back tomorrow.
Weekend roundup
Roberta Smith effectively Yelps a Walmart.
And GalleristNY? If Smith is Yelping an art fair, GalleristNY takes the Tiger Beat approach.
… which has the sad effect of hiding actual substance, such as Andrew Russeth’s strong profile of Eric Fischl.
…and if you’d rather read about art, ideas, content and execution, I strongly recommend Holland Cotter on Matthew [...]
The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Eric Fischl
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Eric Fischl. His new memoir “Bad Boy,” co-written with Michael Stone, has just been published by Crown. In the book, Fischl talks about growing up on Long Island, his mother’s alcoholism and suicide, his discovery of art, his meteoric rise in the New York art world during the cocaine-fueled [...]
Considering Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful”
Garry Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” photographs are curatorial darlings: In the last couple years they’ve been on view in half a dozen museums. (Right now many of the pictures are up at the Art Institute of Chicago.)
One place you won’t find them — at least more than two or three of them — is in [...]
Huntington acquires rare Watkins album
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens has acquired a rare, intact Carleton Watkins album of the Sunny Slope farm and distillery. The album, which dates to the 1880s, includes 27 circular photographs that measure five inches in diameter on six-and-a-half-inch-square paper. Intact Watkins albums are rare, and a number of albums have been [...]
The MAN Podcast: Live in St. Louis!
This is terrifically exciting: The Modern Art Notes Podcast is going back on the road for a live-audience taping! Join us at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis on Saturday at 11am for a taping with “Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works” curator and former Chinati Foundation director Marianne Stockebrand.
This is the [...]
Weekend roundup
In the NYT, Carol Kino profiles Orly Genger. [Genger, Red, Yellow and Blue, 2013. Image via Flickr user ShellyS.]
Also in the NYT, Ted Loos looks at SFMOMA’s Garry Winogrand retrospective. Curator Leo Rubinfien was the lead guest on Episode No. 70 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast.
Sarah Zabrodski visits Richard Serra’s Shift (1970-71) and writes [...]
Friday exhib: “Spectator Sports” at MOCP
This week’s Friday exhibition is “Spectator Sports” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago. Curated by Allison Grant, the exhibition is on view through July 3. Grant’s essay is available here.
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The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Philip Taaffe
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Philip Taaffe. An exhibition of Taaffe’s most recent work opens Friday, May 3 at Luhring Augustine gallery in Chelsea. Taaffe has re-designed his website just in time for the show. Among the better artist websites, it features most (if not all) of the paintings he’s made since 1980.
Taaffe’s [...]
Carl Andre’s Muybridge poems
In 1963 Carl Andre made a series of typed poems called Historical References. Several of the pieces tell the story of Eadweard Muybridge and his wife Flora, Muybridge’s ‘animal locomotion’ work for Leland Stanford and Muybridge’s killing of Harry Larkyns, who was his wife Flora’s lover. Four hundred and sixty-five of the pieces are in [...]
Update on Smithsonian sequester closures
Yesterday numerous outlets reported that the Smithsonian was restricting sequester-related collection gallery closures to only art museums, namely the Hirshhorn and the National Museum for African Art. Today I learned one other detail from Smithsonian spokesperson Linda St. Show More Summary
Tuesday links
This isn’t new, but I just discovered it last week: For some time I’ve been pointing out that one of the problems with Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek’s Bubble fantasy is that no one’s on board with it, not even Hirshhorn staff. Now there is empirical data suggesting that the going-nowhere project has decimated morale among [...]
Weekend roundup
Christopher Knight demolishes Urs Fischer, who for some reason is the subject of a survey at MOCA.
Christina Binkley profiles LACMA chief Michael Govan in the WSJ.
Sebastian Smee isn’t a particular fan of the Per Kirkeby survey at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. (The show debuted at the Phillips Collection.)
Holly Myers considers Latifa Echakhch’s installation [...]
The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Edward Ball
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball talking about his new book “The Inventor and the Tycoon.” The book tells the story of the relationship between photographer (and murderer) Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, one of the Big Four who built the western half of the transcontinental [...]
Five things I think I think: AGO edition
1.) The Art Gallery of Ontario’s “selected survey” of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller is a nice intro to their work, but far from a thorough presentation of their oeuvre. Highlight of the installation: Cardiff & Miller’s Road Trip (2004), a work typically overshadowed by showier installations such as The Paradise Institute (2001). Road [...]
Five things I think I think: Albright-Knox edition
I’m traveling this week, so hear are some notes on what I’m seeing while I’m on the road…
1.) The Kelly Richardson survey at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery has many good moments, but none are better than walking into Mariner 9 (2012), the UK-based Richardson’s biggest, newest work. For about 15 minutes I watched people walk [...]
Weekend roundup
Carol Vogel profiles collector Mitch Rales and his private (non-profit), exclusive museum Glenstone. Haven’t heard of it? It’s out in the nowheresville suburbs, an area only realistically accessible to the white upper-class, and the place has long been disinterested in having journalists visit. (For a time you had to sign a waiver effectively saying you’d remember [...]
Friday exhib: Charles Burchfield’s heavens
This week’s Friday exhibition is “Charles Burchfield: Oh My Heavens” at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo through August 4. The exhibition, curated by Tullis Johnson, Alana Ryder and Kevin Williams, includes Burchfield paintings and sketches that feature the skies above and the idea of heaven. About 20 images of works in the show [...]