Episode No. 409 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Andrew Butterfield and artist Stephanie Syjuco.

Butterfield is the curator of "Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence." The exhibition opens at the NGA on Sept. 15 and continues through Jan. 12, 2020.

Syjuco discusses her work on the occasion of "Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States," which opens at the CAM St. Louis on Sept. 6. Syjuco is also in "Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design" at the ICA Boston through Sept. 22.

Episode No. 408 is a summer clips episode featuring a previously aired conversation with Stanley Whitney.

The Saint Louis Art Museum will exhibit Whitney's work in "The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection," which opens next month. The show presents many of the 81 artworks by black abstractionists that Monique and Ronald Ollie recently gifted to the museum. Whitney is among the artists in the gift. "The Shape of Abstraction" will be on view from September 17 through March 8, 2020.

Episode No. 406 features curator Mia Fineman and artist Barbara Bosworth.

Fineman is the curator of "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography" at the Met. It surveys how artists have looked at and considered the moon. It's on view through September 22.

The second segment features Barbara Bosworth, whose work is included in "Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum's Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11," at  the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. It's on view through September 2.

Episode No. 405 features curators Anna O. Marley and Kirk Nickel.

Marley is the curator of "From the Schuykill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic" at PAFA. It wields PAFA's collection to consider Philadelphia as a locus of landscape painting in the early 19th-century. It's on view through December 29.

The second segment features Legion of Honor curator Kirk Nickel discussing three major paintings in "Early Rubens." This segment previously ran, in extended form, in May.

Episode No. 404 features curator Michael A. Brown and choreographer William Forsythe.

Brown is the curator of "Art and Empire: The Golden Age of Spain," at the San Diego Museum of Art. It joins the art of Golden Age Spain with art from Spanish-controlled centers such as Antwerp, and the Spanish imperial lands in the Americas and Philippines. It is on view through Sept. 2.

On the second segment, Forsythe discusses "William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects," which is at the MFA Houston through Sept. 15.

Episode No. 403 features artists Lubaina Himid and Sheila Pepe.

The New Museum is presenting "Lubaina Himid: Work from Underneath" through October 6. It is Himid's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The exhibition was curated by Natalie Bell.

On the second segment, Sheila Pepe discusses work of hers on view -- 19 in all! -- in "Queer Abstraction" at the Des Moines Art Center. "Queer Abstraction" is on view through September 8. It was curated by Jared Ledesma.

Episode No. 402 features curator and art historian H. Daniel Peck and curator Elizabeth Morrison.

The Thomas Cole NHS in Catskill, NY is presenting "Thomas Cole's Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek." It considers Cole's paintings of Catskill Creek as a series. It was curated by H. Daniel Peck and is on view through Nov. 3.

On the second segment, the Getty Museum's Elizabeth Morrison discusses "Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World," at the Getty through August 18.

Episode No. 401 features artist Leonardo Drew.

The Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York is presenting "Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass." Drew's over 100-foot-long work presents an abstracted cityscape atop a patterned, carpet-recalling panorama. It is on view through December 15. Drew's work is also on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in "Open House: Elliott Hundley," a collection installation that Hundley curated. It's at MOCA through September 16.

Episode No. 400 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features a previously aired conversation between host Tyler Green and Carrie Moyer. 

Moyer is included in "Queer Abstraction" at the Des Moines Art Center, a show which looks at how LGBTQ artists have used abstraction to address sexuality and gender. The show, which was curated by Jared Ledesma, is in Iowa through September 8.

Episode No. 399 is a summer clips episode that features curator George Shackelford.

Shackelford is the curator of "Monet: The Late Years", which has just opened at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. The exhibition includes canvases Monet made at the end of the nineteenth century and in the mid-1900s, but primarily considers the paintings Monet made between 1913 and his death in 1926. The show debuted this past spring at San Francisco's de Young Museum. "Monet" is at the Kimbell through September 15.