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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Richard J. Powell, Odilon Redon
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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, Pi
Sep 10 1 h 23 min
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: S
Sep 3 58 min
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" throug
Aug 27 53 min
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.
Aug 20 1 h 17 min
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
Aug 13 37 min
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 Mu
Aug 6 1 h 07 min
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
Jul 30 1 h 08 min
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
Jul 23 1 h 05 min
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. C
Jul 16 1 h 26 min
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 Yo
Jul 9 1 h 14 min
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
Jul 2 1 h 13 min
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 exhibit
Jun 25 46 min
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 s
Jun 18 49 min
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-commission
Jun 11 55 min
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 Con
Jun 4 1 h 08 min
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 c
May 28 1 h 27 min
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 Whol
May 21 36 min
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 Con
May 14 1 h 05 min
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,"
May 7 55 min
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 Worl
Apr 30 1 h 45 min
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I have been listening to this podcast for over a year now and I continue to be delighted with stories about contemporary and historical artists throughout the world. Highly recommended to learn about who is making waves in the art community currently and for a better understanding about the lives of the artists who have blazed trails.
dbAkeRT · Apr 2026
But for all of the outstanding artists featured on this podcast, the host Tyler Green does not seem to do them justice as an interviewer. Sure he often does some very good research in preparing for the interviews, but he oftentimes sounds apathetic and even bored during these. Sometimes (and I’m remembering the episode with Roni Horn), it’ll become clear that he’s not interpreting the work correctly, the artist will even correct him, but he will fail to be sensitive, he keeps barreling through with inane questions.
jacksonp92 · Aug 2024
I really enjoy the content, but the sounds quality makes this an unpleasant listen. In the episode I have on now, the person being interviewed has severe vocal fry (which could possibly be an easy fix) but their audio is such poor quality they keep cutting out. How can you publish a podcast with this level of audio? Pretty disappointing.
jamieiacoli · Jan 2024
Engaging, necessary, long form conversations between studied host and his diverse list of intriguing guests, delivered in a relaxed but focused interview that brings one to understand intention and deeper meaning. Thank you.
AllisonLala · Oct 2023
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