The Modern Art Notes Podcast

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 evolution of Chicana/o/x lens-based practices through over 150 pictures made across six decades. The exhibition is on view at both RAM locations, and will remain at The Cheech through September 6, and at RAM's Julia Morgan-designed building through July 5. through It was curated by Elizabeth Ferrer. Concurrently, Fernandez's 2002 Lavanderia #2 is on view in the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection galleries. The NGA holds at least six pictures from the series. This episode was taped in 2023 on the occasion of the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles' post-renovation-and-expansion debut exhibition "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer's Contemporary Collection," and as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth was showing "Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures," [https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/christina-fernandez-multiple-exposures] a survey of Fernandez's career. For images, see Episode No. 602. [https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-602-christina-fernandez-endless-bridget-riley/] Air date: February 12, 2026.

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." [https://www.slam.org/exhibitions/currents-125-blas-isasi/] The exhibition presents sculptures informed by ancient Andean cosmology and the Peruvian desert landscape, as well as the violent collision between Indigenous Andeans and colonizing Europeans. The exhibition was curated by Simon Kelly, and is on view through August 9. SLAM's exhibition brochure is available here. [https://www.slam.org/blog/3d-flip-book/currents-125-blas-isasi/] Isasi [https://www.blasisasi.com/] is a Peruvian sculptor who lives in the United States. He has previously shown in Prospect 6 in New Orleans (parts of that exhibition traveled to the MCA Denver), at SHED Projects, Cleveland, and at The Front, New Orleans. Grollemond and Morrison are the curators of "Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages" [https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/creation-story/] at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The exhibition, which is on view through April 19, looks at how creation stories have been advanced in manuscript painting. The exhibition also includes works by Harmonia Rosales, whose work often engages Christian creation stories, how they were presented in the middle ages, and how they might be offered today. Rosales [https://www.harmoniarosales.art/], whose work centers Black women in reconsiderations of Western art, has been included in group shows at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, and the Brooklyn Museum. Instagram: Blas Isasi [https://www.instagram.com/blasisasi/], Larissa Grollemond [https://www.instagram.com/larisag/], Harmonia Rosales [https://www.instagram.com/honeiee/], Tyler Green. [https://www.instagram.com/tylergreenbooks] Air date: February 5, 2026.

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 paintings and sculptures, and details their two meetings. Wallace's narrative animates the many relationships with church officials, collectors, and intellectuals that the two men had in common, providing insight into their world and the many ways in which the two artists may have addressed each other in their art. Amazon [https://amzn.to/3NOt0fK] and Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/p/books/michelangelo-and-titian-a-tale-of-rivalry-and-genius-william-e-wallace/aae0bdeb864a46fe?ean=9780691266572&next=t] offer it for $19-33. Wallace was previously on Episode No. 439 [https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-439-michelangelo/] to discuss Michelangelo, God's Architect. Air date: January 29, 2026.

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," [https://www.pamm.org/en/exhibition/woody-de-othello-coming-forth-by-day/] a presentation of new ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large-scale bronze, all of which explore the primordial relationship between body, earth, and spirit. The exhibition was organized by Jennifer Inacio with the support of Fabiana A. Sotillo. It is on view in Miami through June 28 after which it will travel to the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis. Othello's [http://woodyothello.com/] sculpture, painting, and drawing often investigate the still life genre. His previous institutional solo exhibition was at The Bowes Museum in the UK. Museums that have featured his work in group shows include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Seattle Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Whitney Museum of American Art included him in its 2022 biennial. Later this year, his work will be featured in a Public Art Fund solo presentation [https://www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/upcoming-2026-exhibitions/] in Brooklyn's Brooklyn Bridge Park. He is an artist trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Garcia and Murphy are the co-curators of "Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country" [https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibitions/tewa-nangeh-tewa-country/] at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. Namingha is among the 13 artists in the exhibition, 12 of whom are from the six Tewa Pueblos of northern New Mexico (Nambé, Ohkay Owingeh, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and Tesuque). "Tewa Nangeh" presents the work of Tewa artists while highlighting O'Keeffe's erasure of Tewa people. It is on view through September 7. Garcia's work is in the collection of museums such as the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Namingha's [https://www.michaelnamingha.com/] work is also on view through April 5 at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe in "Essential Elements: Art, Environment, and Indigenous Futures." [https://www.indianartsandculture.org/current?&eventID=6970] The El Paso Museum of Art and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe have featured solo exhibitions of his work; he's been in group shows at museums such as the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Instagram: Woody De Othello [https://www.instagram.com/woodyothello/], Jason Garcia [https://www.instagram.com/okuu.pin.studio/], Michael Namingha [https://www.instagram.com/mnamingha/], Tyler Green. [https://www.instagram.com/tylergreenbooks] Air date: January 22, 2026.

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" [https://www.thebroad.org/art/special-exhibitions/robert-therrien-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 and symbols. The exhibition is on view through April 5. The Broad published a fine catalogue to accompany the show. Amazon [https://amzn.to/4jGC3ep] and Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/p/books/robert-therrien-this-is-a-story-darby-english/0a8fd986fc658e6d?ean=9781636811819&next=t] offer it for $50-55. Nugent [https://gabriellanugent.com/] is a London-based art historian and curator who routinely publishes essays in Burlington Contemporary and Art Monthly. She particularly discusses her recent essay "On the problem of artists' biographies in exhibitions," [https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/articles/on-the-problem-of-artists-biographies-in-exhibitions] which was published in Burlington Contemporary in December 2025. Instagram: Ed Schad [https://www.instagram.com/icallitoranges/], Gabriella Nugent [https://www.instagram.com/gabriellanugent/], Tyler Green. [https://www.instagram.com/tylergreenbooks/] Air date: January 15, 2026.