The Modern Art Notes Podcast
by Tyler Green
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.
Episodes
-
Cynthia Daignault
Episode No. 783 features artist Cynthia Daignault. The Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston is presenting "Cynthia Daignault: Valley" through January 18, 2027. The exhibition features a monumental, multi-panel paintings installation that shows the most iconic Miwuk landscape: an elevated view...
-
Terry Winters, Ursula von Rydingsvard
Episode No. 782 features artist Terry Winters, and remembers the late artist Ursula von Rydingsvard. The Menil Collection, Houston is showing "Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry" through April 4, 2027. The exhibition presents 44 prints and works on paper recently acquired by the museum. It was...
-
Clare Rojas, "Rooted in Place"
Episode No. 781 features artist Clare Rojas and curator Hillary Olcutt. The Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art is presenting "Clare Rojas: Returning" a survey of 60 works the Ohio-born Rojas has made mostly over the last decade. It particularly spotlights works Rojas has made that examine the cyclical...
-
John Constable, Bruce Nauman
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 "John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined" through July 25, 2027. The exhibition examines Constable's open-air paintings, pictures which helped...
-
Holiday clips: Stacy Kranitz
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…
more -
Celeste Rapone
Episode No. 778 features artist Celeste Rapone. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Atrium Project: Celeste Rapone" in the museum's two-story entrance space through Jun 20, 2027. The presentation was organized by Jamillah James with Korina Hernandez. Rapone's work centers domesticity, intimacy, and...
-
Jitish Kallat
Episode No. 777 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Jitish Kallat. The Menil Drawing Institute is presenting "Wall Drawing: Series: Jitish Kallat" through August 8, 2027. For the exhibition Kallat has produced a site-specific wall drawing that grows out of his years-long engagement…
more -
Mark Thomas Gibson, O'Keeffe and architecture
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 "Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are a Constellation," a survey of Gibson's recent considerations of US history and the relationship between our past...
-
Richard J. Powell, Odilon Redon
Episode No. 775 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features art historian Richard J. Powell and curator Danielle Canter. Powell is the author of "Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect," which was just published by Princeton University Press. The book examines the historical and cultural work color...
-
Summer clips: Edmonia Lewis
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 "Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone" at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. The exhibition presents the life and work of...
-
Summer clips: Lotus L. Kang
Episode No. 773 is a summer clips episode featuring artist Lotus L. Kang. The Frye Art Museum, Seattle is showing "Lotus L. Kang: I hear the hollow boom of time" through September 27. The installation features large sheets of unfixed industrial film that have been exposed to light sources as part...
-
Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles, the Steve Roden Estate
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...
-
Summer clips: Sofonisba's Lesson (new edition)
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…
more -
Museum responses to fascism (or not)
Episode No. 770 features former museum director, former Association of Art Museum Directors president, and Souls Grown Deep president Maxwell L. Anderson, and Oakland Museum of California director Lori Fogarty. With the Trump administration and its Congressional allies having threatened,...
-
Remembering Betye Saar
Episode No. 769 features a conversation with Betye Saar recorded in 2016. Saar died on Sunday a few days short of her one hundredth birthday. Saar, known especially for her use of assemblage and her often pioneering address of complicated and often troubling US, and diasporic African and…
more -
Derrick Adams
Episode No. 768 features artist Derrick Adams. The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is presenting "Derrick Adams: View Master" through September 7. It is the first mid-career survey of Adams' twenty-year career. The exhibition was curated by Dexter Wimberly and Tessa Bachi Haas. An Adams...
-
Young Joon Kwak; "The Crossing"
Episode No. 767 features artist Young Joon Kwak and curator Laura Igoe. Kwak is featured in the 2026 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Curated by Drew Sawyer and Marcela Guerrero with assistance from Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez, it's on view through…
more -
Marcel Duchamp, Nic Nicosia
Episode No. 766 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Matthew Affron, Michelle Kuo, and Ann Temkin, and artist Nic Nicosia. The Museum of Modern Art, New York is presenting "Marcel Duchamp" through August 22. The exhibition, the first Duchamp retrospective in the United States since...
-
Holiday clips: Hew Locke
Episode No. 765 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Hew Locke. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston is presenting "Hew Locke: Passages," the first US survey of Locke's career, through September 13. Across sculpture, painting, photography and installations, Locke's work considers colonialism…
more -
Louis Fratino
Episode No. 764 features artist Louis Fratino. The Baltimore Museum of Art is exhibiting "Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again" through September 6. The exhibition shows how Matisse -- specifically Baltimore's great Matisse collection -- has informed Fratino's painting. The exhibition was...
-
Summer clips: Jes Fan
Episode No. 763 is a summer clips episode featuring artist Jes Fan. The Yale University Art Gallery is presenting "Jes Fan: Unbounded" through June 28. The exhibition spotlights how Fan makes sculptures that combine elegant abstract forms with an experimental and innovative approach to materials....
-
John Akomfrah
Episode No. 762 features artist John Akomfrah. The Menil Collection, Houston is showing "John Akomfrah: The Hour of The Dog" through October 11. The work, co-commissioned by the Menil and the Baltimore Museum of Art, explores the history of the US civil rights movement between 1954 and 1963. The...
-
Denzil Forrester, William Wylie
Episode No. 761 features artists Denzil Forrester and William Wylie. Forrester is featured in "Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago through September 20. The exhibition explores and expands the visual, political, and spiritual histories of...
-
Miró and the US, Parasol Press
Episode No. 760 features curators Marko Daniel and Elsa Smithgall, and curator Rachel Vogel. With Matthew Gale and Dolors Rodríguez Roig, Daniel and Smithgall are the co-curators of "Miró and the United States" at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. The exhibition explores the exchanges...
-
Holiday clips: Gertrude Abercrombie
Episode No. 759 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Sarah Humphreville. With Eric Crosby, Humphreville is the co-curator of "Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery." The exhibition surveys Abercrombie's synthesis of surrealism, landscape, portraiture and still-life, and…
more -
Leasho Johnson, Laura Facey
Episode No. 758 features artists Leasho Johnson and Laura Facey. Both artists are featured in "Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago through September 20. The exhibition explores and expands the visual, political, and spiritual histories of...
-
Matisse's Stations of the Cross in Vence
Episode No. 757 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features art historian and curator Yve-Alain Bois. Bois is the curator of "Matisse in Vence: The Stations of the Cross," at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibition presents about 80 of the drawings Matisse made for the painted ceramic mural of…
more -
Frederic Edwin Church, Manet & Morisot
Episode No. 756 features author Victoria Johnson and curator Emily A. Beeny. Johnson is the author of "Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World," the first major biography of the most important and influential painter in the US...
-
Jess T. Dugan, D.B. Dowd
Episode No. 755 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Jess T. Dugan and author D.B. Dowd. Radius Books is publishing "Jess T. Dugan & Charlotte Cotton: Love Pictures," a collaboration featuring Dugan's photographs and conversations with Cotton and members of Cotton's and Dugan's...
-
Vermeer, Rachel Burgess
Episode No. 754 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features author Andrew Graham-Dixon and artist Rachel Burgess. Graham-Dixon is the author of "Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found," which was just published by WW Norton. The book, a biography-ish of one of the most famous and elusive artists of the…
more -
Delilah Montoya, Rupert García
Episode No. 753 features artist Delilah Montoya and author Mario T. García. Montoya's work is featured in three major exhibitions around the US this season. The Albuquerque Museum is featuring "Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance," the first retrospective of Montoya's forty-year…
more -
Easter clips: Melvin Edwards
Episode No. 752 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Melvin Edwards. Edwards, one of the most important and influential sculptors of his generation, the rare artist whose work simultaneously addressed the past, the present, and the future, died on March 30. He was 88. This program was...
-
Kahlil Robert Irving, Truman Lowe
Episode No. 751 features artist Kahlil Robert Irving and curator Rebecca Head Trautmann. Irving is included in "Monuments," at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition juxtaposes decommissioned Lost Cause monuments with artworks that address the histories the Lost Cause aimed…
more -
Clips: Jo Ann Callis
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 color photographs that consider, sex, sexuality, pleasure and more pleasure. This program was taped in 2014 when Aperture published "Other Rooms,"…
more -
Frida, the Making of an Icon, Isabelle Frances McGuire
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 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibition reveals how Frida Kahlo went from virtually unknown to mainstream audiences at the time of her death in...
-
Edmonia Lewis
Episode No. 748 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Shawnya L. Harris and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll. Harris and Richmond-Moll are the curators of "Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone" at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. The exhibition presents the life and work of nineteenth-century...
-
Bethany Collins, Gladys Nilsson
Episode No. 747 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Bethany Collins and curator Edouard Kopp. Collins is included in "Monuments," at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition juxtaposes decommissioned Lost Cause monuments with commissioned artworks that address the...
-
Brian Rochefort, Rauschenberg sculpture
Episode No. 746 features artist Brian Rochefort and curator Catherine Craft. Rochefort is among the artists included in "Made in L.A. 2025," the biennial at the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. The exhibition was curated by Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha with Jennifer...
-
Holiday clips: Christina Fernandez
Episode No. 745 is a holiday weekend clips show featuring artist Christina Fernandez. Fernandez is included in "Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966-2026" at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside (Calif.) Art Museum. The exhibition explores the…
more -
Blas Isasi, "Beginnings"
Episode No. 744 features artist Blas Isasi and curators Larissa Grollemond and Elizabeth Morrison, and artist Harmonia Rosales. Tomorrow, February 6, the Saint Louis Art Museum opens "Currents 125: Blas Isasi." The exhibition presents sculptures informed by ancient Andean cosmology and the…
more -
Michelangelo & Titian
Episode No. 743 features author and art historian William E. Wallace. Wallace is the author of Michelangelo & Titian, which will be published by Princeton University Press on February 3. The book examines what Michelangelo and Titian saw in each other's work, how they spoke to each other in...
-
Woody De Othello, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country
Episode No. 742 features artist Woody De Othello, and artists Jason Garcia, Michael Namingha, and curator Bess Murphy. The Pérez Art Museum Miami is presenting "Woody De Othello: coming forth by day," a presentation of new ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large-scale bronze…
more -
Robert Therrien, Gabriella Nugent
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 Los Angeles. The retrospective presents Therrien's meditations on scale and material, while revealing Therrien's repeatedly mined vocabulary of forms…
more -
Firelei Báez, Black photojournalism
Episode No. 740 features artist Firelei Báez and curators Charlene Foggie-Barnett and Dan Leers. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Firelei Báez," the first North American mid-career survey of the artist's paintings and installations. Báez's work often explores the legacies of colonialism across the...
-
Holiday clips: Dara Birnbaum
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. "Her work is now displayed in museum collections around the world as the example of feminist video art," wrote curator and critic Karen Archey in an...
-
Holiday clips: Wafaa Bilal
Episode No. 738 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Wafaa Bilal. Earlier this year the MCA Chicago presented "Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me," the first major survey of Bilal's work. Across his genres-busting career, the Iraqi-American Bilal has made performances, sculptures and related digital...
-
Wifredo Lam, Yoko Ono
Episode No. 737 features curators Beverly Adams and Jamillah James. With Christophe Cherix, Adams is the co-curator of "Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition includes more than 130 works made between the 1920s and 1970s, making it the most...
-
Dyani White Hawk
Episode No. 736 features artist Dyani White Hawk. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is presenting "Dyani White Hawk: Love Language," a 15-year survey of White Hawk's career. The exhibition spotlights how White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) has foregrounded Lakota forms and motifs to challenge…
more -
Sixties Surreal, Filippino Lippi
Episode No. 735 features curators Dan Nadel and Laura Phipps, and curator Alexander J. Noelle. With Elizabeth Sussman and Scott Rothkopf, Nadel and Phipps are the co-curators of "Sixties Surreal" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The exhibition works to complicate the march of…
more -
Holiday clips: Aliza Nisenbaum
Episode No. 734 is a Thanksgiving weekend clips program featuring artist Aliza Nisenbaum. The Des Moines Art Center is presenting "Aliza Nisenbaum: Día de los Muertos" through January 11, 2026. For the latest iteration of DMAC's annual Día de los Muertos celebration, and as the museum's Toni and...
About this show
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.
Hosted by
Tyler Green