Michael Rakowitz, Frank Duveneck

<p>Episode No. 481 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Michael Rakowitz and curator Julie Aronson.</p> <p><a href="http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/">Rakowitz</a> is the winner of the 2020 <a href= "https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/programs-events/nasher-prize"> Nasher Prize</a>, given by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The Nasher is showing <a href= "https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/exhibitions/exhibition/id/1713?2020-nasher-prize-laureate-michael-rakowitz"> an exhibition of Rakowitz's work</a> through April 18. It includes work from Rakowitz's series <em>The invisible enemy should not exist</em>, a 2007-and-after engagement with the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in the wake of the United States-led invasion. The series includes placeholders for many of the 15,000 artifacts that were stolen or lost in the museum's partial dissolution. The Nasher exhibition also includes Rakowitz's stop-motion film <em>The Ballad of Special Ops Cody</em>.</p> <p>The Wellin Museum at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY is presenting <a href= "https://www.hamilton.edu/wellin/exhibitions/detail/michael-rakowitz-nimrud"> "Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud"</a> through June 18. As of the publishing of this episode, the exhibition is open only to members of the Hamilton College community.</p> <p>On the second segment, curator Julie Aronson discusses <a href= "https://cincinnatiartmuseum.org/duveneck">"Frank Duveneck: American Master,"</a> a retrospective of the Gilded Age, Cincinnati-based painter whose teaching and work was also influential in the American northeast and in Europe. The exhibition is on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum through March 28.</p>