Joseph Stella, Celia Álvarez Muñoz

<p>Episode No. 594 features curators <strong>Stephanie Mayer Heydt</strong> and <strong>Isabel Casso.</strong></p> <p>With Audrey Lewis, Heydt is the co-curator of <a href= "https://high.org/exhibition/joseph-stella-visionary-nature/">"Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature,"</a> a survey of the American modernist's nature-based artworks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art. While Stella is best known today for his futurism-informed studies of urbanity, most especially for his paintings of the Brooklyn Bridge, Lewis and Heydt's exhibition reveals him to be every bit as much as interested in re-making America's century-long Emersonian landscape and nature traditions as his Precisionist colleagues were. The exhibition features over 100 paintings and works on paper. It's on view through May 21. A fine catalogue was published by the High Museum of Art and DelMonico Books. <a href= "https://amzn.to/3TQEz5f">Amazon</a> and <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781636810928">Indiebound</a> offer it for about $55.</p> <p>With Kate Green, Casso is the curator of <a href= "https://mcasd.org/exhibitions/celia-alvarez-mu%C3%B1oz">"Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding,"</a> the artist's first retrospective, at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. The exhibition features over 40 of Muñoz's large-scale installations, book projects, and shows how Muñoz built a witty, often funny style built from conceptualist puns even as she styled herself as an "artivist" who engaged issues informed by her experiences living along the US-Mexico borderlands. It's on view at MCASD's La Jolla location through August 13. A catalogue is forthcoming.</p>