John Constable, Bruce Nauman
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Episode No. 780 features curator Edward Town and author Tim Barringer, and curator Leigh Arnold. The Yale Center for British Art is presenting Town's 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...
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Holiday clips: Stacy Kranitz
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Episode No. 779 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday weekend clips show featuring artist Stacy Kranitz. This week Terrible Baby Books is publishing Kranitz's Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, a new book that examines the evolving representation of the Appalachian mountaineer, tracing how poverty in the region has been constructed, challenged, and reimagined over time. Work in the book will be exhibited this fall at the in Vevey, Switzerland, , in Dayton, Ohio, and at , New York University. Ain't No Grave work, primarily made in the southern Appalachian Mountains, presents the...
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Celeste Rapone
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Episode No. 778 features artist Celeste Rapone. The MCA Chicago is presenting in the museum's two-story entrance space through Jun 20, 2027. The presentation was organized by Jamillah James with Korina Hernandez. centers domesticity, intimacy, and daily life, particularly as experienced by women. She has been included in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and the Georgia Museum of Art; her work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, and the Pérez Art...
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Jitish Kallat
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Episode No. 777 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Jitish Kallat. The Menil Drawing Institute is presenting through August 8, 2027. For the exhibition has produced a site-specific wall drawing that grows out of his years-long engagement with Project A119, a partly declassified 1958 US Air Force plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The drawing Kallat has made for the MDI, Wall Drawing / Redux: A119, presents enlarged images derived from Kallat's 2025 Accordion of Drawings / Project A119 / Early Intuitions, in which watercolors evoke an unrealized Cold War story of...
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Mark Thomas Gibson, O'Keeffe and architecture
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Episode No. 776 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mark Thomas Gibson and curator Ben Colman. The Tang Museum at Skidmore College is presenting a survey of recent considerations of US history and the relationship between our past and our present. The exhibition was curated by Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist and is on view through January 3, 2027. Gibson's work is also featured in at the Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Penn. "The Crossing" looks at how artists have represented Continental Army commander-in-chief George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware...
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Richard J. Powell, Odilon Redon
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Episode No. 775 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features art historian Richard J. Powell and curator Danielle Canter. Powell is the author of which was just published by Princeton University Press. The book examines the historical and cultural work color does in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, Hervé Télémaque, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Nina Chanel Abney. The book builds on Powell's of the same title. and offer "Colorstruck!" from $46-61. As discussed on the program: Powell's Mellon Lectures...
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Summer clips: Edmonia Lewis
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Episode No. 774 is a summer clips episode featuring curators Shawnya L. Harris and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll. Harris and Richmond-Moll are the curators of at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. The exhibition presents the life and work of nineteenth-century Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis in the context of her contemporaries and artists she may have influenced. It is on view through January 3, 2027. A valuable catalogue was published by the Peabody Essex Museum and Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. and offer it for...
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Summer clips: Lotus L. Kang
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Episode No. 773 is a summer clips episode featuring artist Lotus L. Kang. The Frye Art Museum, Seattle is showing through September 27. The installation features large sheets of unfixed industrial film that have been exposed to light sources as part of a process calls 'tanning,' a process that aligns film's surface to skin. Sculptures that include tatami mats as their base take up some of the space between the film sheets, which are suspended from above. The show also includes a kinetic sculpture that evokes the body. "I hear the hollow boom of time" was organized by Georgia Erger....
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Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles, the Steve Roden Estate
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Episode No. 772 features art historians Zanna Gilbert and Andrew Perchuk; and curator Meg Linton, museum director Taras Matla, and associate museum director Steve Comba. Along with Emily Pugh, Gilbert and Perchuk are the project leads for "Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles," a Getty Research Institute project that has, among other things, digitized Ed Ruscha's five-decade-long photographic project to document the streets of Los Angeles. The GRI project also considers Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles archive within a range of historical frameworks, spotlights what it tells us about modern...
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Summer clips: Sofonisba's Lesson (new edition)
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Episode No. 771 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a summer clips episode featuring art historian Michael W. Cole. Princeton University Press has just published Cole's Sofonisba's Lesson, New Edition: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work. The book updates Cole's 2020 edition of the book, an assessment of Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625), a pathbreaking painter who substantially made it possible for women to be students of art. and offers Sofonisba's Lesson for $63-68. Cole's book considers Sofonisba Anguissola’s art, how her background, teaching and learning were important to her...
info_outlineEpisode No. 776 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Mark Thomas Gibson and curator Ben Colman.
The Tang Museum at Skidmore College is presenting "Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are a Constellation," a survey of Gibson's recent considerations of US history and the relationship between our past and our present. The exhibition was curated by Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist and is on view through January 3, 2027.
Gibson's work is also featured in “The Crossing: Picturing the American Revolution” at the Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Penn. "The Crossing" looks at how artists have represented Continental Army commander-in-chief George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776. “The Crossing” is particularly interested in how artists have built on and often ‘refuted’ Emanuel Leutze’s famed 1851 Washington Crossing the Delaware, which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition, which was curated by Laura Igoe, is up through January 10, 2027.
An exhibition of Gibson's recent work opens at Philadelphia's Fleisher/Ollman Gallery tomorrow, and remains on view through November 7.
Among the institutions that have presented solo shows of Gibson's work are the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Colman is the curator of "Georgia O'Keeffe: Architecture" at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Across about 35 paintings, the exhibition examines O'Keeffe's career-long interest in buildings and the built environment. It's on view through January 3, 2007. The DIA has published a catalogue that is available from Amazon and Bookshop for $32-34.
Instagram: Mark Thomas Gibson, Ben Colman, Tyler Green.
Air date: September 17, 2026.