The Modern Art Notes Podcast

By Tyler Green

What's The Modern Art Notes Podcast about?

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators and conservators. Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee called The MAN Podcast “one of the great archives of the art of our time.” When the US chapter of the International Association of Art Critics gave host Tyler Green one of its inaugural awards for criticism in 2014, it included a special citation for The MAN Podcast.

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The Modern Art Notes Podcast episodes:

04.19.2024
Camille Claudel, Jim Moske
Episode No. 650 features curator Anne-Lise Desmas and author Jim Moske. With Emerson Bowyer, Desmas is the co-curator of "Camille Claudel," a retrospective of the French modernist sculptor's career, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Until now, Claudel's work has...
04.11.2024
Patrick Martinez, Nell Irvin Painter
Episode No. 649 features artist Patrick Martinez and author Nell Irvin Painter. Dallas Contemporary is showing "Patrick Martinez: Histories" through September 1. The exhibition surveys work Martinez has made since 2016, including his Pee Chee folder-referencing paintings, cake paintings, neons, and...
04.04.2024
Matisse & Derain, Isabelle Frances McGuire
Episode No. 648 features curator Dita Amory and artist Isabelle Frances McGuire. Along with Ann Dumas, Amory is the curator of "Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain and the Origins of Fauvism," which is at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston...
03.28.2024
Holiday clips: Kahlil Robert Irving
Episode No. 647 is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Kahlil Robert Irving. The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in Saint Louis is presenting "Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present" through July 29. "Archaeology of the Present"...
03.21.2024
Ruth Asawa's drawings, "The Anxious Eye"
Episode No. 646 features curators Edouard Kopp and Shelley Langdale. With Kim Conaty, Kopp is the co-curator of "Ruth Asawa: Through Line," a survey of Asawa's lifelong drawing practice. (Kirsten Marples and Scout Hutchinson assisted Kopp and Conaty.) The exhibition, which...
03.14.2024
"Surrealism and Us," Kenny Rivero
Episode No. 645 features curator María Elena Ortiz and artist Kenny Rivero. Ortiz is the curator of "Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The exhibition investigates the history...
03.07.2024
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Trey Burns
Episode No. 644 features artists Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Trey Burns. The Hammer Museum is presenting "Hammer Projects: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi" through August 11. The exhibition features ARENA V (2024), Nkosi's latest investigation of the social and psychological experiences of...
02.29.2024
Sargent Claude Johnson, Stacy Kranitz
Episode No. 643 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator and art historian John P. Bowles and artist Stacy Kranitz. Along with Dennis Carr and Jacqueline Francis, Bowles is the co-curator of "Sargent Claude Johnson," a survey of the artist's...
02.23.2024
Matisse and the Sea, Marc Bauer
Episode No. 642 features curator Simon Kelly and artist Marc Bauer. Kelly is the curator of "Matisse and the Sea," at the Saint Louis Art Museum through May 12. The exhibition examines the significance of the sea across Matisse's oeuvre. It...
02.16.2024
Holiday clips: Stanley Whitney
Episode No. 641 is a President's Day weekend clips show featuring artist Stanley Whitney. The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (née the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) is presenting "Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon," a retrospective of Whitney's fifty-year career. The exhibition features...
02.09.2024
Judy Ledgerwood, 'Frank & Webb'
Episode No. 640 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Judy Ledgerwood and curator Lisa Volpe. Ledgerwood is included within "50 Paintings" at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition features paintings made in the last five years by 50...
02.02.2024
Sin Wai Kin, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Episode No. 639 features artists Sin Wai Kin and Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. The Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley is presenting "MATRIX 284/Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing," the artist's first US exhibition. BAMPFA's exhibition includes...
01.26.2024
Saif Azzuz, Maryam Taghavi
Episode No. 638 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Saif Azzuz and Maryam Taghavi. The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is presenting "Saif Azzuz: Cost of Living," an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installation that considers settler...
01.18.2024
Faith Ringgold, George Masa
Episode No. 637 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Jamillah James and author Brent Martin. James has organized "Faith Ringgold: American People," a retrospective of Ringgold's career as an artist and activist, at the Museum of Contemporary Art...
01.12.2024
Botticelli Drawings, Southern/Modern
Episode No. 636 features curators Furio Rinaldi and Jonathan Stuhlman. Rinaldi is the curator of "Botticelli Drawings" at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's Legion of Honor, the first exhibition dedicated to the drawings of Sandro Botticelli. The show follows...
01.04.2024
Leslie Martinez, Alexis Smith
Episode No. 635 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Leslie Martinez and curator Anthony Graham. MoMA PS1 in Queens is presenting "Leslie Martinez: The Fault of Formation," through April 8. The exhibition features paintings built with paint, folds,...
12.29.2023
Holiday clips: Amalia Mesa-Bains
Episode No. 634 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Amalia Mesa-Bains. The Phoenix Art Museum is presenting “Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory,” the first retrospective of the pioneering Chicana artist. The exhibition includes nearly 60 works including fourteen of Mesa-Bains’...
12.22.2023
Holiday clips: Gary Simmons
Episode No. 633 is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Gary Simmons. The Pérez Art Museum Miami is presenting “Gary Simmons: Public Enemy,” a survey of Simmons’ 35-year career. The exhibition reveals how Simmons has addressed race, class and US...
12.15.2023
Dorothea Lange portraits, William Blake
Episode No. 632 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Philip Brookman and Julian Brooks. Brookman is the curator of "Dorothea Lange: Seeing People," at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition presents Lange's decades-long portraiture practice...
12.08.2023
Picasso in Fontainebleau, Hanne Darboven
Episode No. 631 features curators Anne Umland and Kelly Montana. Umland is the curator of "Picasso in Fontainebleau" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition examines work Pablo Picasso made during the summer of 1921 in Fontainebleau, an...
12.01.2023
Manet/Degas, Robert Frank & Todd Webb
Episode No. 630 features curators Stephan Wolohojian and Lisa Volpe. With Ashley Dunn and in collaboration with Laurence des Cars, Isolde Pludermacher, and Stéphane Guégan, Wolohojian is the co-curator of "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition...
11.22.2023
My Barbarian, Eleanor Antin
Episode No. 629 features artist Alexandro Segade of My Barbarian, and a re-air of a 2013 conversation with artist Eleanor Antin. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is presenting "Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian," a fiftieth anniversary celebration of Antin's...
11.17.2023
Lyle Ashton Harris, Millet's Man with a Hoe
Episode No. 628 features artist Lyle Ashton Harris and curator Scott Allan. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is presenting "Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love," a survey of Harris' career featuring photographs, collage, archival material,...
11.10.2023
Erica Mahinay, Teresa Baker
Episode No. 627 features artists Erica Mahinay and Teresa Baker. Mahinay and Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa) are both included in "Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living," the sixth iteration of the Hammer Museum's biennial. The exhibition, which is on view...
11.02.2023
Chryssa & New York, Kenneth Tam
Episode No. 626 features curator Michelle White and artist Kenneth Tam. With Megan Holly Witko, White is the co-curator of "Chryssa & New York," a survey of work the Greek-born Chryssa made while living in New York from the late...
10.27.2023
Tammy Nguyen, Jammie Holmes
Episode No. 625B features artists Tammy Nguyen and Jammie Holmes. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston is presenting "Tammy Nguyen," an exhibition of Nguyen's new paintings, works on paper, and unique artist books. The interconnected body of work, informed by East...
10.26.2023
Remembering Robert Irwin
Episode No. 625A remembers artist Robert Irwin. Nota bene: Episode No. 625B, which will post here on the evening of Friday, October 27, will feature artists Tammy Nguyen and Jammie Holmes. Irwin, a painter and anti-sculptor who substantially invented the Light...
10.19.2023
"Groundswell," Sarah Crowner
Episode No. 624 features curator Leigh Arnold and artist Sarah Crowner. Arnold is the curator of "Groundswell: Women of Land Art," a survey of artists who have worked in the land that revises ossified male-centric histories at the Nasher Sculpture...
10.12.2023
Melissa Cody, Roksana Pirouzmand
Episode No. 623 features artists Melissa Cody and Roksana Pirouzmand. Cody and Pirouzmand are both included in "Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living," the sixth iteration of the Hammer Museum's biennial. The exhibition, which is on view through...
10.05.2023
Holiday clips: Otobong Nkanga, Griselda Rosas
Episode No. 622 is a holiday clips episode that features artists Otobong Nkanga and Griselda Rosas. Nkanga was just awarded the 2025 Nasher Prize, for "weaving together powerful works that delve into the complex, often fragile relationships between humans,...
09.29.2023
Carmen Winant, Van Leo
Episode No. 621 features artist Carmen Winant and curator Negar Azimi. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is exhibiting Winant's "The last safe abortion" through December 31. It features Winant's assemblages of historical photographs gathered from across the Midwest that detail...
09.21.2023
Stacy Kranitz, Kristine Potter
Episode No. 620 features artists Stacy Kranitz and Kristine Potter. Kranitz and Potter are included in "A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845" at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The exhibition considers the South as a forger...
09.14.2023
Edra Soto, José Lerma
Episode No. 619 features artists Edra Soto and José Lerma. Soto and Lerma are among the 18 artists featured in "entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The exhibition examines...
09.07.2023
Holiday clips: RIP Steve Roden
Episode No. 618 is a holiday clips episode that remembers Steve Roden. He died yesterday after fighting Alzheimer's disease. Roden was 59. The program features: a 2012 segment with Roden and Stephen Vitiello on the occasion of their inclusion...
09.01.2023
Holiday clips: vanessa german
Episode No. 617 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist vanessa german. german is one of six artists featured in "Beyond Granite," a series of installations on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The exhibition, which was curated by Paul Farber...
08.24.2023
Gary Simmons, Benjamin Wigfall & Communications Village
Episode No. 616 features artist Gary Simmons and curator Sarah L. Eckhardt. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting "Gary Simmons: Public Enemy," a survey of Simmons' 35-year career. The exhibition reveals how Simmons has addressed race, class and...
08.18.2023
David Bindman, Nicki Green
Episode No. 615 features historian and author David Bindman, and artist Nicki Green. Bindman's new book is 'Race Is Everything': Art and Human Difference. It examines nineteenth and early twentieth-century racializing science (sometimes referred to as pseudoscience) and how European art...
08.10.2023
1898, Maia Cruz Palileo
Episode No. 614 features curator Kate Clarke Lemay and artist Maia Cruz Palileo. With Taína Caragol, Lemay is the co-curator of "1898: US Imperial Visions and Revisions" at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington. (Carlina Maestre assisted them.) The exhibition...
08.04.2023
Prudence Peiffer, Joshua Reynolds
Episode No. 613 features author Prudence Peiffer and museum director Timothy Potts. Peiffer is the author of "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever." The book, out this week from Harper, is a group biography of...
07.27.2023
Robert Motherwell, 19thC Danish art
Episode No. 612 features curators Susan Davidson and Stephanie Schrader. Davidson is the curator of "Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting," which is at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through September 3. The exhibition is the first Motherwell paintings retrospective...
07.20.2023
Wendy Red Star
Episode No. 611 features artist Wendy Red Star. The Columbus Museum of Art is presenting the career-length survey "Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth." It's on view through September 3. The exhibition was curated by Tricia Laughlin Bloom...
07.13.2023
Dyani White Hawk, Si Lewen
Episode No. 610 features artist Dyani White Hawk and curator Kelly Montana. White Hawk is included in "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America" at the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition presents...
07.07.2023
Summer clips: Virginia Jaramillo
Episode No. 609 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a summer clips episode featuring artist Virginia Jaramillo. The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City is presenting "Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence," the first retrospective of Jaramillo's work....
06.30.2023
Holiday clips: Ebony G. Patterson
Episode No. 608 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Ebony G. Patterson. The New York Botanical Garden is presenting "…things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting…," a site-specific exhibition that immerses Patterson's work in the NYBG's spaces. It is...
06.22.2023
Canova, Griselda Rosas
Episode No. 607 features curator C.D. Dickerson III and artist Griselda Rosas. With Emerson Bowyer, Dickerson is the co-curator of "Canova: Sketching in Clay." The exhibition features more than 30 of the 60 surviving sketch models Antonio Canova made in...
06.15.2023
Georgia O’Keeffe, "Southern/Modern"
Episode No. 606 features curators Samantha Friedman and Jonathan Stuhlman. Friedman is the curator of "Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Laura Neufeld and Emily Olek also worked on the exhibition.) The exhibition...
06.08.2023
Gio Swaby, "Coded"
Episode No. 605 features artist Gio Swaby, and curator Leslie Jones. The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting "Gio Swaby: Fresh Up," a solo exhibition of work Swaby made in 2017-2021. Swaby's embroidered portraits celebrate both Blackness and her subjects' self-awareness...
06.02.2023
Lotus Laurie Kang, Adaline Kent
Episode No. 604 features artist Lotus Laurie Kang and curator Apsara DiQuinzio. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting "Atrium Project: Lotus Laurie Kang," a large-scale installation in the MCA's two-story entrance lobby. Kang's work, Molt (New York-Lethbridge-Los Angeles-Toronto-Chicago-...
05.26.2023
Holiday clips: Eamon Ore-Giron
Episode No. 603 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Eamon Ore-Giron. Ore-Giron is one of twenty artists that the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the African American Museum in Philadelphia asked to respond to the question: is...
05.18.2023
Christina Fernandez, "Endless," Bridget Riley
Episode No. 602 features artist Christina Fernandez and curators Nolan Jimbo and Rachel Federman. Fernandez's work is included in the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles' post-renovation-and-expansion debut exhibition "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer's Contemporary Collection." It's...

What's The Modern Art Notes Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Modern Art Notes Podcast episodes:

Camille Claudel, Jim Moske

Patrick Martinez, Nell Irvin Painter

Matisse & Derain, Isabelle Frances McGuire

Holiday clips: Kahlil Robert Irving

Ruth Asawa's drawings, "The Anxious Eye"

"Surrealism and Us," Kenny Rivero

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Trey Burns

Sargent Claude Johnson, Stacy Kranitz

Matisse and the Sea, Marc Bauer

Holiday clips: Stanley Whitney

Judy Ledgerwood, 'Frank & Webb'

Sin Wai Kin, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Saif Azzuz, Maryam Taghavi

Faith Ringgold, George Masa

Botticelli Drawings, Southern/Modern

Leslie Martinez, Alexis Smith

Holiday clips: Amalia Mesa-Bains

Holiday clips: Gary Simmons

Dorothea Lange portraits, William Blake

Picasso in Fontainebleau, Hanne Darboven

Manet/Degas, Robert Frank & Todd Webb

My Barbarian, Eleanor Antin

Lyle Ashton Harris, Millet's Man with a Hoe

Erica Mahinay, Teresa Baker

Chryssa & New York, Kenneth Tam

Tammy Nguyen, Jammie Holmes

Remembering Robert Irwin

"Groundswell," Sarah Crowner

Melissa Cody, Roksana Pirouzmand

Holiday clips: Otobong Nkanga, Griselda Rosas

Carmen Winant, Van Leo

Stacy Kranitz, Kristine Potter

Edra Soto, José Lerma

Holiday clips: RIP Steve Roden

Holiday clips: vanessa german

Gary Simmons, Benjamin Wigfall & Communications Village

David Bindman, Nicki Green

1898, Maia Cruz Palileo

Prudence Peiffer, Joshua Reynolds

Robert Motherwell, 19thC Danish art

Wendy Red Star

Dyani White Hawk, Si Lewen

Summer clips: Virginia Jaramillo

Holiday clips: Ebony G. Patterson

Canova, Griselda Rosas

Georgia O’Keeffe, "Southern/Modern"

Gio Swaby, "Coded"

Lotus Laurie Kang, Adaline Kent

Holiday clips: Eamon Ore-Giron

Christina Fernandez, "Endless," Bridget Riley