The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Episode No. 313 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Thomas Struth. The Saint Louis Art Museum is about to open "Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics," a survey of 35 works Struth has made over the last decade. It was co-organized by the Museum Folkwang, Martin-Gropius-Bau, and the High in Atlanta in collaboration with SLAM. Struth is one of the world's most prominent photographers. His work often looks at the construction of places, including most recently those that are oft invisible.

Episode No. 312 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Martine Syms and art historian Petra Giloy-Hirtz. Martine Syms is included in "Speech/Acts" at the ICA Philadelphia. It examines experimental black poetry and how language has shaped black American experiences. Syms' work most often uses video, installation and performance to investigate representations of blackness, especially in popular culture. Petra Giloy-Hirtz discusses her recent monograph of Hassel Smith.

Episode No. 311 features curators Eve Straussman-Pflanzer and Scott A Shields. Host Tyler Green also shares some findings from our recently completed annual survey. "The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence" is the first American exhibition devoted to Carlo Dolci. Curated by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, it is at the Nasher Museum at Duke University through January 14, 2018. Crocker Art Museum curator Scott A. Shields discusses "Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955."

Episode No. 310 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Davide Gasparotto and Roni Baer. Gasparotto is the curator of "Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice" at the J. Paul Getty Museum. It features 12 paintings and one drawing that reveal Bellini's use of landscape within his religious pictures. Next, two extraordinary gifts of 17thC Dutch and Flemish art and a 20,000-volume library to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Curator Ronni Baer discusses. 

Episode No. 309 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Mark Dion and Anicka Yi. This weekend, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston opens "Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist," a survey of over 20 years of Dion sculptures, installations and drawings. On the second segment, Anicka Yi, who is included in "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" at the New Museum. The exhibition looks at gender in the context of America's national political crisis.

Episode No. 308 features curators Cecelia Fajardo-Hill & Frederick Ilchman. Along with Andrea Giunta, Fajardo-Hill is a curator of "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985," at the Hammer Museum. On the second segment, MFA Boston curator Frederick Ilchman discusses "Casanova: The Seduction of Europe" at the Kimbell Art Museum.

Episode No. 307 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Emmet Gowin.  Gowin's "Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, a Study in Beauty and Diversity" is just out from Princeton University Press. It features photographs of hundreds of moths that Gowin has made in Central and South America over the last 15 years. Gowin will show related work in "Here on Earth Now -- Notes from the Field" in an exhibition that opens on Sept. 28 at New York's Pace/MacGill Gallery.

Episode No. 306 features curators Idurre Alonso and Anne Ellegood. Alonso is the co-curator of "Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010: Contradiction and Continuity" at the J. Paul Getty Museum. It opens this weekend and remains on view through January 28, 2018. The exhibition explores themes that emphasize Argentina's history. On the second segment, Ellegood discusses "Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World." The exhibition is at the Walker Art Center through October 7. 

Episode No. 305 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features journalist Carolina Miranda and artist Leyla Cárdenas. Miranda is a journalist at the LA Times. She joins host Tyler Green to preview "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA," a Getty Foundation-funded series of exhibitions, catalogues and events across southern California. Cárdenas is included in "Home -- So Different, So Appealing" at LACMA. It is the first PST: LA/LA show to open. It will remain on view through October 15.

Episode No. 304 features a re-air of host Tyler Green's 2016 conversation with Anthony Hernandez. In two weeks the Milwaukee Art Museum will present one of the best shows of 2016, a retrospective of Anthony Hernandez curated by SFMOMA curator Erin O'Toole. It was Hernandez's first retrospective. His photographs have consistently looked at parts of America, especially parts of Los Angeles, that hide in plain sight. Milwaukee's presentation is on view Sept. 15 through Jan. 1, 2018.

Episode No. 303 is a summer clips episode featuring curator Simon Kelly. Along with Esther Bell, Kelly is the co-curator of "Degas, Impressionism & the Paris Millinery Trade," which melds the social history of 19thC Paris with the ways in which painters, especially Edgar Degas, portrayed the manufacturing and selling of hats. Millinery was a gateway into the city, employment and the bourgeoisie for tens of thousands of French women. It is at San Francisco's Legion of Honor through Sept. 24.

Episode No. 302 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon and Amor Muñoz. This is the second of two MAN Podcast episodes spotlighting artists in "Soundtracks," a new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that examines the role of sound in art. The show, which was curated by Rudolf Frieling and Tanya Zimbardo, will remain on view through January 1, 2018. It features nearly three dozen artworks that are or include sound.

Episode No. 301 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Ronda Kasl and Rima Girnius. Met curator Ronda Kasl is the co-curator of "Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque." Villalpando is considered one of the two major artists of 17thC New Spain. On the second segment, Nelson-Atkins curator Rima Girnius discusses two recently re-attributed paintings in the N-A's collection: Bosch's The Temptation of St. Anthony and Albrecht Bouts's Christ Crowned with Thorns.

Episode No. 300 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Gary Simmons. Gary Simmons's newest installation is on view at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Titled "Gary Simmons: Fade to Black," the work is a multi-wall installation in the museum's atrium. The presentation was curated by Naima J. Keith and will remain on view through July 31, 2018.

Episode No. 299 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Glenn Ligon and curator Stephen Brown. Ligon is the curator of "Blue Black" at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. and an artist whose 2011 mid-career survey was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Stephen Brown co-curated "Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry," which is at The Jewish Museum in New York through September 24.