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Episode No. 322 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Ilona Katzew and Kenneth Myers.

Along with Jaime Cuadriello, Paula Mues Orts, and previous MAN Podcast guest Luis Elena Alcala, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Ilona Katzew is a co-curator of “Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici.” The exhibition is a broad survey of a many kinds of 18th-century Mexican painting, including religious narratives, altarpieces, portraits, casta painting and more. It is on view at LACMA through March 18. The remarkable exhibition catalogue was published by DelMonico Prestel. Amazon offers it for $60.

Katzew is one of the world’s foremost experts on New Spanish painting. She was previously on the program to discuss LACMA’s acquisition of a significant Miguel Cabrera casta painting.

On the second segment, Detroit Institute of Arts curator Kenneth Myers discusses “Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage.” The exhibition considers the paintings Frederic Edwin Church made in the late 1860s and 1870s of his trip to the Middle East and the Mediterranean. It’s on view in Detroit until January 15. The exhibition’s excellent catalogue was published by the DIA. Amazon offers it for $41.

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Episode No. 319 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Julieta González and Wendy Kaplan, and artist Adela Goldbard.

This week the program spotlights three exhibitions from the Getty-funded Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions.

Julieta González discusses "Memories of Underdevelopment: Art and the Decolonial Turn in Latin America, 1960-85," which is at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego through February 4, 2018. The exhibition shows how artists responded to Western investment in Latin America (and the inevitable alliance with global capitalism that came along with it). González organized the show with three other co-curators: Kathryn Kanjo, Sharon Lerner and Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. After the exhibition's run in San Diego, it will travel to Museo Jumex in Mexico City next spring, and then to the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) in Peru. The exhibition catalogue will be published in March, 2018.

Next, artist Adela Goldbard will discuss her work, especially her interest in fire. Her work is included in "Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco" at the Pomona College Museum of Art. The show, which was organized by Rebecca McGrew, features work made to address Pomona's great 1930 José Clemente Orozco mural Prometheus. It's on view through December 16. Goldbard is a Rhode Island and Mexico City-based artist whose work addresses national histories, especially the history of the relationship between the US and Mexico.

On the final segment, Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Wendy Kaplan discusses "Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985." The exhibition shows how a bi-national conversation that included art, architecture, film, and design all informed the development of a distinctive Californian and Mexican style. Kaplan co-curated the show with Staci Steinberger. It's on view through April 1, 2018. The show's excellent catalogue was published by Delmonico Prestel. Amazon offers it for $42.

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Episode No. 318 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features author and critic Jed Perl and author Jo Steffens.

Perl is the author of "Calder: The Conquest of Time, The Early Years, 1898-1940," the first in a planned two-volume biography of American sculptor Alexander Calder. The book was recently published by Knopf. Amazon offers it for $30.

Perl is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and was the art critic of The New Republic for twenty years. His previous books include "Magicians and Charlatans," "Antoine’s Alphabet," and "New Art City."

The catalogue for the Museum of Modern Art's 1943 Calder exhibition, which Perl and host Tyler Green discuss, is available for free on MoMA's website, as are installation views from the show.

On the second segment, Jo Steffens discusses "Unpacking My Library: Artists and Their Books," which was recently published by Yale University Press. Steffens edited the book with Matthias Neumann. It is the third in a series that has also spotlighted the libraries of architects and writers. Among the artists featured in the book are Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Mark Dion, Theaster Gates, Wangechi Mutu, Martin Parr, and Ed Ruscha. Amazon offers it for $14.

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Episode No. 317 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Carmen Bambach and Alexandra Munroe.

Bambach is the curator of "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibition, which features 133 drawings, three sculptures, a painting and a wood architectural model, all by Michelangelo, and contextualizing contemporary works by his teachers, peers and pupils, is on view through February 12, 2018. The lavish, extensive exhibition catalogue was published by the Met and is distributed by Yale University Press. Amazon offers it for $58.

Bambach is a curator at the Met. Her previous exhibitions include a 2010 survey of Bronzino's drawings, a 2003 exhibition of Leondardo da Vinci's drawings, and a 2001 show spotlighting the draftsmanship of Correggio and Parmigianino.

On the second segment, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum curator Alexandra Munroe discusses "Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World." The exhibition, which presents work made in or about China by 71 artists and groups between 1989 and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is at the Guggenheim through January 7, 2018. Munroe co-curated the exhibition with Philip Tinari and Hon Hanru. The excellent catalogue was published by the Guggenheim. Amazon offers it for $46.

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Episode No. 317 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Carmen Bambach and Alexandra Munroe.

Bambach is the curator of "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibition, which features 133 drawings, three sculptures, a painting and a wood architectural model, all by Michelangelo, and contextualizing contemporary works by his teachers, peers and pupils, is on view through February 12, 2018. The lavish, extensive exhibition catalogue was published by the Met and is distributed by Yale University Press. Amazon offers it for $58.

Bambach is a curator at the Met. Her previous exhibitions include a 2010 survey of Bronzino's drawings, a 2003 exhibition of Leondardo da Vinci's drawings, and a 2001 show spotlighting the draftsmanship of Correggio and Parmigianino.

On the second segment, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum curator Alexandra Munroe discusses "Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World." The exhibition, which presents work made in or about China by 71 artists and groups between 1989 and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is at the Guggenheim through January 7, 2018. Munroe co-curated the exhibition with Philip Tinari and Hon Hanru. The excellent catalogue was published by the Guggenheim. Amazon offers it for $46.

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Episode No. 313 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Thomas Struth.

The Saint Louis Art Museum is set to open "Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics," a survey of 35 works Struth has made over the last decade. It opens to members on Friday, November 3, and to the general public on Nov. 5. It will remain on view through January 21, 2018. The exhibition was co-organized by the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in collaboration with SLAM. The St. Louis installation was curated by Eric Lutz. The exhibition catlaogue was published by Mack. Amazon offers it for $41.

Thomas Struth is one of the world's most prominent photographers. His work often looks at the construction of places, including most recently places that he describes as being invisible.

His most recent retrospective, "Thomas Struth, Photographs 1978-2010," was organized by the Kustsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in his hometown of Dusseldorf, the Whitechapel in London and the Museu Serralves in Porto, Portugal. His last American retrospective was in 2002-03, at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MCA Chicago.

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Episode No. 311 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Eve Straussman-Pflanzer and Scott A. Shields. At the top of the program, host Tyler Green 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 the paintings and drawings by Carlo Dolci. Curated by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, the Detroit Institute of Art's curator of European paintings, the exhibition is at the Nasher Museum at Duke University through January 14, 2018. The exhibition's striking catalogue was published by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College and distributed by Yale University Press. Amazon offers it for $35.

Dolci was a deeply devout painter of sacred subjects, a painter whose ouevre consists mostly of religious subjects (which may be part of why he fell out of favor in the nineteenth century). In addition to the intense feeling within his work, Dolci's paintings are distinguished by exquisite finish and technical accomplishment.

On the second segment, Crocker Art Museum curator Scott A. Shields discusses "Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955," which the Crocker co-organized with the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. The exhibition looks at work, especially work on paper, that Diebenkorn made before turning to figuration while living and working in Berkeley, Calif. It reveals Diebenkorn working through artists with whom his work is not typically associated, such as John Marin and Arshile Gorky. The exhibition is accompanied by an excellent, well-illustrated catalogue that mines Diebenkorn's archive to find a surprising range of influences. Amazon sells it for $42. From Sacramento, the show will trael to the Owsley Museum at Ball State University, the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum, the Weisman Museum at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and to the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Md.

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Episode No. 310 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Davide Gasparotto and Ronni Baer.

Davide Gasparotto is the curator of "Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice." The exhibition, which opened earlier this week at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, features 12 paintings and one drawing that reveal how Bellini used landscapes within his religious pictures. The Getty has lined up blockbuster loans of paintings that rarely travel, including many from Italy. It is on view through January 14, 2018. The show's smart, richly illustrated catalogue was published by the Getty. Amazon offers it for just $27.

On the second segment, two extraordinary gifts of art and a 20,000-volume library to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Yesterday the museum announced that Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie have promised their collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art to the museum. The gift of 113 works by 76 artists is the greatest pledge or gift of art to an American art museum since Leonard Lauder promised his cubism collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013, and to find something that ranks with those two you've probably got to back into the twentieth century.

The gift includes tremendous portraits by Hals, Rembrandt and Dou, five Jacob van Ruisdaels, a rich trove of sea and riverscapes, three Jan Steens, four Dutch Protestant church interiors, genre scenes, floral still-lifes, winterscapes and multible paintings by Brueghel and Rubems.An installation of works from the gift integrated into the MFA's already strong collection of Dutch and Flemish art is on view now. Ronni Baer, the MFA's senior curator of paintings and a top Dutch Golden Age expert, joins host Tyler Green to discuss the gift.

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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. The exhibition, which was curated by Ruth Erickson with Jessica Hong, is on view through January 1, 2018. The exhibition catalogue, published by the ICA and Yale University Press, is one of the best art books of 2017. Amazon offers it for $48.

Dion works at the intersection of art, natural history, history and anthropology. His work examines and often critiques humanity's approach to nature, landscape and science through witty address of scientific methodologies and installations that often have roots in Victorian-era presentation.

Dion has fulfilled commissions and had exhibitions at museums all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, and the British Museum of Natural History in London. He is also a co-director of Mildred's Lane, a visual art education and residency program in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania.

On the second segment, Anicka Yi . Yi is included in "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" at the New Museum. The exhibition, which was curated by Johanna Burton with Sara O'Keeffe and Natalie Bell, looks at gender in the context of America's national political crisis. It is on view through January 21, 2018. The exhibition catalogue was published by the New Museum. Amazon offers it for $40.

Yi has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kunsthalle Basel and at New York's The Kitchen.

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Episode No. 308 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Cecelia Fajardo-Hill and Frederick Ilchman.

Along with Andrea Giunta, Fajardo-Hill is a curator of "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985," one of the headline shows of the Getty Foundation-funded "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA" series of exhibitions. The show is the first survey of art made by women in Latin America and US-born Chicanas and Latinas during the sixties, seventies and early eighties. It includes about 116 artists from 15 countries, including Lygia Pape, Zilia Sánchez and Ana Mendieta.

The show will be at the Hammer through December 31. The catalogue is a strikingly thorough English-language source. It was published by DelMonico Prestel. Amazon offers it for $43.

On the second segment, MFA Boston curator Frederick Ilchman discusses "Casanova: The Seduction of Europe," a broad look at the over-the-top luxury of European art and decorative arts in the pre-French Revolution decades. It's on view at the Kimbell Art Museum through December 31. The show is built around the famed Giacomo Casanova, a courtier, lothario and schemester whose memoir provides one of the best insights to an era in which those at the top of society milked their countries for wealth and prestige, leavin little for others. The exhibition was co-curated by Ilchman, the National Gallery's C.D. Dickerson (who started work on the show while he was at the Kimbell), and the Clark's Esther Bell. The exhibition catalogue, which was published by the MFA Boston, is one of the best art books of the year. Amazon lists it for $38.

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Episode No. 308 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Cecelia Fajardo-Hill and Frederick Ilchman.

Along with Andrea Giunta, Fajardo-Hill is a curator of "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985," one of the headline shows of the Getty Foundation-funded "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA" series of exhibitions. The show is the first survey of art made by women in Latin America and US-born Chicanas and Latinas during the sixties, seventies and early eighties. It includes about 116 artists from 15 countries, including Lygia Pape, Zilia Sánchez and Ana Mendieta.

The show will be at the Hammer through December 31. The catalogue is a strikingly thorough English-language source. It was published by DelMonico Prestel. Amazon offers it for $43.

On the second segment, MFA Boston curator Frederick Ilchman discusses "Casanova: The Seduction of Europe," a broad look at the over-the-top luxury of European art and decorative arts in the pre-French Revolution decades. It's on view at the Kimbell Art Museum through December 31. The show is built around the famed Giacomo Casanova, a courtier, lothario and schemester whose memoir provides one of the best insights to an era in which those at the top of society milked their countries for wealth and prestige, leavin little for others. The exhibition was co-curated by Ilchman, the National Gallery's C.D. Dickerson (who started work on the show while he was at the Kimbell), and the Clark's Esther Bell. The exhibition catalogue, which was published by the MFA Boston, is one of the best art books of the year. Amazon lists it for $38.

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Episode No. 307 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Emmet Gowin.

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Gowin's "Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, a Study in Beauty and Diversity" is just out from Princeton University Press. The book features photographs of hundreds of moths that Gowin has made in Central and South America over the last 15 years. The book includes essays by Terry Tempest Williams and Gowin. Amazon offers it for $41.

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. It will remain on view through Jan. 6, 2018.

Gowin first came to prominence in the 1960s for pictures he made of his wife Edith and of his family and friends around Danville, Virginia. He has gone on to make pictures of how mankind's biggest projects have impacted landscapes in places such as the American West and the modern-day Czech Republic. Museums that have presented surveys of his work include the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Princeton University Museum of Art.

Host Tyler Green and Gowin discuss his 1971 two-person exhibition with Robert Adams at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. MoMA's archive of the exhibition is available online.

This is Gowin's second appearance on The MAN Podcast. Along with Frank Gohlke, he was on the program in 2013 to discuss work made in the aftermath of the 1980 Mount Saint Helens eruption.