The Modern Art Notes Podcast
Episodes
Kahlil Robert Irving, Truman Lowe
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 751 features artist Kahlil Robert Irving and curator Rebecca Head Trautmann. Irving is included in "Monuments," at the Museum of Contempo...
Clips: Jo Ann Callis
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 750 (!!!) is a clips episode featuring artist Jo Ann Callis. Starting in the early 1970s, Callis has constructed both black-and-white and ...
Frida, the Making of an Icon, Isabelle Frances McGuire
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 749 features curator Mari Carmen Ramírez and Isabelle Frances McGuire. Ramírez is the curator of "Frida: The Making of an Icon" at the ...
Edmonia Lewis
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 748 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Shawnya L. Harris and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll. Harris and Richmond-Moll are the curato...
Bethany Collins, Gladys Nilsson
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 747 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Bethany Collins and curator Edouard Kopp. Collins is included in "Monuments," at the M...
Brian Rochefort, Rauschenberg sculpture
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 746 features artist Brian Rochefort and curator Catherine Craft. Rochefort is among the artists included in "Made in L.A. 2025," the bien...
Holiday clips: Christina Fernandez
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 745 is a holiday weekend clips show featuring artist Christina Fernandez. Fernandez is included in "Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographi...
Blas Isasi, "Beginnings"
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 744 features artist Blas Isasi and curators Larissa Grollemond and Elizabeth Morrison, and artist Harmonia Rosales. Tomorrow, February 6,...
Michelangelo & Titian
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 743 features author and art historian William E. Wallace. Wallace is the author of Michelangelo & Titian, which will be published by Prin...
Woody De Othello, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 742 features artist Woody De Othello, and artists Jason Garcia, Michael Namingha, and curator Bess Murphy. The Pérez Art Museum Miami is...
Robert Therrien, Gabriella Nugent
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 741 features curator Ed Schad and critic Gabriella Nugent. Schad is the curator of "Robert Therrien: This is a Story" at The Broad in Lo...
Firelei Báez, Black photojournalism
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 740 features artist Firelei Báez and curators Charlene Foggie-Barnett and Dan Leers. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Firelei Báez," the ...
Holiday clips: Dara Birnbaum
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 739 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Dara Birnbaum. Birnbaum, a pioneering titan of video art, passed away this year at 78. "H...
Holiday clips: Wafaa Bilal
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 738 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Wafaa Bilal. Earlier this year the MCA Chicago presented "Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me," the f...
Wilfredo Lam, Yoko Ono
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 737 features curators Beverly Adams and Jamillah James. With Christophe Cherix, Adams is the co-curator of "Wilfredo Lam: When I Don't Sl...
Dyani White Hawk
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 736 features artist Dyani White Hawk. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is presenting "Dyani White Hawk: Love Language," a 15-year su...
Sixties Surreal, Filippino Lippi
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 735 features curators Dan Nadel and Laura Phipps, and curator Alexander J. Noelle. With Elizabeth Sussman and Scott Rothkopf, Nadel and P...
Holiday clips: Aliza Nisenbaum
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 734 is a Thanksgiving weekend clips program featuring artist Aliza Nisenbaum. The Des Moines Art Center is presenting "Aliza Nisenbaum: D...
Allan Rohan Crite, Gabriele Münter
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 733 features curators Diana Seave Greenwald and Megan Fontanella. With Christina Michelon, Greenwald is the co-curator of "Allan Rohan Cr...
Igshaan Adams, Laura Igoe
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 732 features artist Igshaan Adams and curator and Jenkintown, Penn. school board-electee Laura Igoe. The Hill Art Foundation, New York is...
Hew Locke
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 731 features artist Hew Locke. The Yale Center for British Art is presenting "Hew Locke: Passages," the first US survey of Locke's caree...
Barnett Newman
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 730 features author Amy Newman. Newman is the author of Barnett Newman: Here a biography out this week from Princeton University Press....
Justin Favela, David-Jeremiah
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 729 features artists Justin Favela and David-Jeremiah. The Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery is presenting a commission f...
Drawing and video, Pablo Helguera
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 728 features curators Anna Lovatt and Kelly Montana, and artist/curator Pablo Helguera. Lovatt and Montana are the curators of "Lines of...
Holiday clips: Andrea Carlson
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 727 is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Andrea Carlson. The Denver Art Museum just opened "Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky...
Danielle Joy Mckinney
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 726 features artist Danielle Joy Mckinney. The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is presenting "Danille Mckinney: Tell Me More" thr...
Photography & the Black Arts Movement
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 725 features curators Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis (and a cameo, of sorts, from artist Anthony Barboza). Brookman and Willis are th...
Antony Gormley
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 724 features artist Antony Gormley. It was taped before a live audience at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. The Nasher is showing "S...
Rauschenberg Fabrics, Nanette Carter
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 723 features curator Michelle White and artist Nanette Carter. White is the curator of "Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s" ...
Ann Burroughs, the museum director who stood up to Trump, Giambologna
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 722 features museum director and human rights activist Ann Burroughs, and curator Cory Korkow. Burroughs is the director of the Japanese ...
Summer clips: Saif Azzuz
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 721 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Saif Azzuz. The Blaffer Art Museum, University of ...
Summer clips: Tidawhitney Lek
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 720 is a summer clips episode featuring artist Tidawhitney Lek. Lek is among the 30+ artists featured in "Spirit House" at the Henry Art ...
Ben Shahn
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 719 features curator Laura Katzman. Katzman is the curator of "Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity" at the Jewish Museum, New York. Shahn's firs...
Masako Miki, Katherine Simóne Reynolds
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 718 features artist Masako Miki and artist/curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds. The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is present...
Erin Shirreff, Artemisia Gentileschi
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 717 features artist Erin Shirreff, curator Davide Gasparotto, and conservator Ulrich Birkmaier. The Milwaukee Art Museum is presenting "E...
Noah Davis, Francesca Fuchs
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 716 features curator Eleanor Nairne and artist Francesca Fuchs. With Wells Fray-Smith, Nairne is the co-curator of "Noah Davis," an epony...
Kandis Williams
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 715 features artist Kandis Williams. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis is presenting "Kandis Williams: A Surface," the first survey of W...
"The First Homosexuals," June Leaf
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 714 features curator and art historian Jonathan D. Katz and curators Allison Kemmerer and Gordon Wilkins. With Johnny Willis, Katz is the...
Holiday clips: Carmen Winant
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 713 is a Fourth of July weekend clips episode featuring artist Carmen Winant. This episode was taped in 2023 on the occasion of the Minne...
Julian Hoeber, Aubrey Williams & Frank Bowling
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 712 features artist Julian Hoeber and curator María Elena Ortiz. Hoeber is included in "Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture" at the Nash...
Summer clips: Patrick Martinez
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 711 is a summer clips episode featuring artist Patrick Martinez. Martinez is among the artists showing in the Boston Public Art Triennial...
Thiebaud's art from art, Tony Lewis
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 710 features curator Timothy Anglin Burgard and artist Tony Lewis. Burgard is the curator of "Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art" at the ...
Ornamental Blackness, Monstrous Beauty
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 709 features author Adrienne L. Childs and curator Iris Moon. Childs is the author of "Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in Europea...
Paul Pfeiffer
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 708 features artist Paul Pfeiffer. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is showing the retrospective "Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the S...
Holiday clips: Lorna Simpson
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 707 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Lorna Simpson. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
John Wilson, Grace Hartigan
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 706 features curators Leslie King-Hammond and Edward Saywell, and curator Jared Ledesma. Along with Patrick Murphy and Jennifer Farrell, ...
Elizabeth Catlett, Beatriz Cortez
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 705 features curators Dalila Scruggs and Catherine Morris, and artist Beatriz Cortez. With Mary Lee Corlett, Scruggs and Morris are the c...
Wafaa Bilal
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 704 features artist Wafaa Bilal. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me," the first major survey of Bilal's work. Across ...
Dakota Mace, Gorky & Noguchi
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 703 features artist Dakota Mace and curator Claire Howard. SITE Santa Fe is showing "Dakota Mace: DAHODIYINII—SACRED PLACES," an invest...
Holiday clips: María Magdalena Campos-Pons
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 702 is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles is presenting...
Caillebotte's Men, Native Pop!
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 701 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Scott Allan, and curators Will Hansen and River Ian Kerstetter. With Gloria Groom and...
Tarrah Krajnak, Jennifer Raab
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 700 (!) features artist Tarrah Krajnak and curator Jennifer Raab. Krajnak is featured in two exhibitions on opposite sides of the United ...
Jack Whitten
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 699 features two conversations with artist Jack Whitten. The Museum of Modern Art, New York is presenting "Jack Whitten: The Messenger,...
Alex Da Corte, Oaxacan prints
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 698 features artist Alex Da Corte and curator Mark Castro. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is presenting "Alex Da Corte: The Whale," a...
Gertrude Abercrombie, The Monument's End
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 697 features curator Sarah Humphreville and author Marisa Anne Bass. With Eric Crosby, Humphreville is the co-curator of "Gertrude Abercr...
Joe Overstreet, Haegue Yang
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 696 features curators Natalie Dupêcher and Leigh Arnold. Dupêcher is the curator of "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight" at the Menil Colle...
Cannupa Hanska Luger, Painting with Silk
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 695 features artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and curator Ken Myers. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is presenting "Cannupa Hanska...
Tacita Dean, Ilana Harris-Babou
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 694 features artists Tacita Dean and Ilana Harris-Babou. The Menil Collection, Houston is presenting "Tacita Dean: Blind Folly," the firs...
Holiday clips: John Edmonds
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 693 is a Presidents' Day weekend clips episode featuring artist John Edmonds. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York recently ann...
Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic drawings
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 692 features curators Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, and Danielle Canter. Hokanson and Seidenstein are the co-curators o...
Kota Ezawa, Amy Pleasant
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 691 features artists Kota Ezawa and Amy Pleasant. The Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture is presenting "Kota Ezawa: Here and There - ...
Orphism, Beyond the Bouquet
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 690 features curators Vivien Greene and Michael Hartman. With Tracey Bashkoff, Greene is the co-curator of "Harmony & Dissonance: Orphi...
Holiday clips: B. Ingrid Olson
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 689 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist B. Ingrid Olson. Olson's work is included in "Descending the Staircase" at the Museum...
Sayre Gomez, The Living End, Ordinary People
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 688 features artist Sayre Gomez and curator Anna Katz. Gomez is included in two of the season's major contemporary group shows: "The L...
Holiday clips: Laurie Simmons
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 687 features artist Laurie Simmons. Simmons is included in "Diaries of Home" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The exhibition feat...
Holiday clips: Sylvia Plimack Mangold
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 686 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Sylvia Plimack Mangold. An untitled 1966 Plimack Mangold painting is on view in the cur...
Vincent Valdez, Dugan Aguilar
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 685 features artist Vincent Valdez and curators Theresa Harlan and Drew Johnson. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is presenting "Vinc...
Flight into Egypt, The Dance of Life
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode No. 684 features curators Akili Tommasino and Mark Mitchell. Tommasino is the curator of "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egy...