Tyler Green
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Tyler Green interviews artists and curators about specific artworks, one exhibition at a time.
The Modern Art Notes Podcast treats art as something best understood through time, material, place, and memory. Tyler Green speaks with artists, curators, and scholars about exhibitions, individual works, and the histories that shape how they are seen.
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Hosted by art critic Tyler Green, The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a long-form, one-guest-at-a-time interview program almost always tied to a specific current exhibition or retrospective. In the sampled episodes, Green talks with sculptor Melvin Edwards about a Nasher Sculpture Center survey of his work, with artists Bethany Collins and Kahlil Robert Irving about pieces in MOCA Los Angeles's Monuments exhibition, with photographer Jo Ann Callis about her 1970s color work, and with curator Mari Carmen Ramirez about a Museum of Fine Arts Houston show on Frida Kahlo's public image. Guests are working artists, museum curators, and occasionally historians, and Green presses them on concrete formal decisions — why a sculpture uses chain rather than barbed wire, why a granite monument base was recarved into flower petals, how a bronze cast was digitally fabricated from satellite photographs. Recurring subject matter includes contemporary sculpture and its materials, the removal and reinterpretation of Confederate monuments, Lost Cause historiography and Civil War memory, and how an artist's reputation or public image gets built or rebuilt after the fact. Some episodes are archival, replaying older interviews with artists who have since died, framed as tribute. Episodes are structured as single extended conversations, occasionally split into two shorter segments with different guests. The tone is educational and specific rather than promotional, aimed at listeners who already have some grounding in contemporary art discourse. The show is a fit for people tracking particular exhibitions at institutions like MOCA Los Angeles, the Nasher, the Whitney, or the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as much as for general listeners interested in how artists talk about their own material choices. Production is straightforward spoken-word interview audio with minimal added editing.
Made for: Listeners with an existing interest in contemporary art, museum exhibitions, and American art history who want detailed, artist-level discussion of specific works rather than general survey coverage.
What sets it apart: Unlike broader arts-and-culture interview shows, nearly every episode is anchored to a specific current exhibition and pushes guests toward granular discussion of individual artworks' materials and choices rather than career-spanning biography.
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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tyler Green makes exhibitions legible through object-focused conversations with artists and curators about materials, installation, history and interpretation.
The Modern Art Notes Podcast turns exhibition talk into sustained close looking. Tyler Green asks artists and curators how particular works are made, installed and situated within larger histories, keeping the conversation tied to objects rather than drifting into publicity.
Tyler Green makes one ceramic pedestal consequential enough to rearrange how you look.
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A measured return to Melvin Edwards on scale, metal, memory, and the evolving life of the Lynch Fragments.
Tyler Green returns to his 2015 conversation with Melvin Edwards, taped around the Nasher Sculpture Center's Five Decades retrospective and framed by the artist's recent death at 88.
A careful art conversation about monuments, memory, and how an artwork can ask the viewer to act.
The Modern Art Notes Podcast frames Kahlil Robert Irving through Monuments at MOCA Los Angeles, where his work appears beside decommissioned Lost Cause monuments and art that pushes back against the histories those monuments tried to preserve.
Jo Ann Callis turns staged tension into a precise conversation about pleasure, form, and open-ended looking.
For its 750th show, The Modern Art Notes Podcast returns to Tyler Green's 2014 conversation with Jo Ann Callis, using the anniversary to point back toward feminist artists and histories that museums have too often left underexamined.
A clear, art-minded account of how Frida Kahlo became an icon through politics, community, and repeatable visual codes.
Frida Kahlo's afterlife as an icon is treated here as cultural construction, not mystique. Tyler Green's conversation with Mari Carmen Ramirez centers on the Museum of Fine Arts Houston exhibition "Frida, the Making of an Icon," tracing how Kahlo moved from being virtually…
A clear, grounded episode on monuments, mourning, and the craft choices that make visual art legible.
Tyler Green pairs Bethany Collins and Gladys Nilsson in an episode that moves from contested public memory to the mechanics of making images read at scale.
A tactile art conversation where Rochefort's ceramics and Rauschenberg's white spaces reward close looking.
Brian Rochefort gives The Modern Art Notes Podcast a charged, tactile center. Tyler Green starts with the pull of seeing Rochefort's ceramics at the Hammer's Made in LA Biennial: low to the floor, seemingly growing into the white cube, seductive enough to make a viewer lean in…
A vivid Renaissance art conversation about Michelangelo, Titian, rivalry, patronage, and the charged lives of objects.
Tyler Green's conversation with art historian William E. Wallace frames Michelangelo and Titian as artists watching, answering, and measuring themselves against each other across paintings, sculpture, patrons, and shared circles.
A precise museum-world conversation on D'Othello's sculpture, Tewa Country, and the institutional power behind display.
Woody D'Othello gives the episode its center: the Perez Art Museum Miami exhibition, with new ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large-scale bronze concerned with body, earth, and spirit.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
Layered audio documentaries on hidden histories, with some episodes hosted by Frances McDormand.
BBC World Service panel show tracing the global history behind jewellery, robots, and education.
Journalists Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb riff on TV, books, and celebrity culture between themselves.
Abbi Jacobson tours specific MoMA artworks with curators and guests like RuPaul.
MJ Dorian's solo deep dives trace genius through Blake, McQueen, da Vinci, and Jung's Red Book.
Tyler Green opens with loss.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Kahlil Robert Irving about two works in the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles exhibition Monuments, which juxtaposes decommissioned Confederate monuments with artworks addressing the histories they whitewashed.
Tyler Green interviews photographer Jo Ann Callis on the 750th episode of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, focusing on her 1970s color photography series collected in Aperture's Other Rooms.
Frida Kahlo's fame gets treated as something people built after her death.
This episode features an interview with the co-curators of an exhibition about 19th century Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Tyler Green interviews artist Bethany Collins about Love is Dangerous, her sculptural installation for the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles exhibition Monuments, which recarves the pink granite base of the Charlottesville Stonewall Jackson monument—removed in 2021—into 100 flower petals.
Brian Rochefort enters through the Hammer.
This holiday clips episode features artist Christina Fernandez, discussing her inclusion in the Chicano Camera Culture exhibition and her work on view at multiple museums.
This episode previews Blas Esasi's exhibition at the St.
Michelangelo and Titian keep circling each other here.
Tyler Green begins with Woody D'Othello.
This episode features an interview with curator Ed Shad about the Robert Therrien retrospective at the Broad in Los Angeles, followed by a segment with critic Gabriella Nugent on biography, and includes announcements about related art exhibitions.
Baez enters through the exhibition, not biography.
New Year's weekend takes on an archival, memorial tone.
A holiday clips show returns to Wafaa Bilal, with Tyler Green revisiting the MCA Chicago survey Indulge Me.
Wifredo Lam is treated as transnational before anything else.
This episode features an interview with artist Dyani White Hawk about her 15-year survey exhibition 'Love Language' at the Walker Art Center, which explores how she uses Lakota forms to challenge abstract art history.
Sixties Surreal begins at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
A holiday clip show keeps things small and close.
This episode previews two major art exhibitions: one on Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite's work addressing urban issues and Christianity, and another on Gabriele Münter at the Guggenheim Museum.
This episode features artist Igshaan Adams discussing his exhibition at the Hill Art Foundation, which showcases his tapestries and sculptures that engage with his South African community and background.
This episode features an interview with artist Hew Locke about his first U.S.
Host Tyler Green interviews Amy Newman about her biography of artist Barnett Newman, followed by a promotion for a museum exhibition.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Justin Favela about his installation at the Renwick Gallery and discusses other art exhibitions.
Host Tyler Green interviews co-curators of an exhibition on drawing, television, and video at the Menil Drawing Institute.
Host Tyler Green introduces a clips show featuring artist Andrea Carlson and her mid-career survey at the Denver Art Museum.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Danielle Joy McKinney about her solo exhibition at the Rose Art Museum.
Host Tyler Green interviews curator Laura Katzman about the Ben Shahn retrospective at the Jewish Museum.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Masako Miki about her exhibition at ICA San Francisco and discusses a Clifford Still Museum installation with Catherine Simone Reynolds.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Aaron Sheriff about his exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum and discusses a conserved Artemisia Gentileschi painting at the Getty.
Host Tyler Green interviews co-curator Eleanor Nairn about the Noah Davis retrospective at the Hammer Museum.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Candice Williams about her survey exhibition at the Walker Art Center and her use of collage as black feminist resistance.
An interview with co-curator Jonathan D.
A clips episode featuring artist Carmen Wynant discussing her work on abortion access and a preview of a queer art exhibition at the Getty.
Host Tyler Green presents a summer clips episode featuring artist Patrick Martinez and highlights the Getty exhibition '$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives'.
Host Tyler Green interviews curator Timothy Anglin Burgardt about the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition and discusses Tony Lewis at the Menil Drawing Institute.
An interview with Adrienne Childs about her book on Black figures in European decorative arts, plus a segment on a feminist revision of Chinoiserie at the Met.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Paul Pfeiffer about his retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Host Tyler Green presents a clip show featuring an interview with artist Lorna Simpson about her survey exhibition at The Met, discussing her explorations of gender, race, and identity.
Host Tyler Green interviews curators of an Elizabeth Catlett exhibition at the National Gallery of Art.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Wafaa Bilal about his first major survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, exploring his work on geopolitics and cultural cannibalism.
Host Tyler Green interviews artist Dakota Mace about her exhibitions at Site Santa Fe and the Hudson River Museum, exploring Native memory and Dine cosmology.