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Episode No. 175 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Michaël Borremans.

On March 15, the Dallas Museum of Art opens “Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets,” the first career-length survey of Borremans’ work. Curated by the DMA’s Jeffrey Grove, the show originated in Borremans’ native Belgium at the Center for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR). It will be on view at the DMA through July 5. The exhibition catalogue was published by Hatje Cantz.

Borremans is one of Europe’s most important painters. His vaguely surreal, Old Masters-informed paintings imagine worlds both unlikely and possible. His work has been the subject of solo shows at museums in Tokyo,  Ghent, Hanover, Amsterdam, Basel and more. American museums holding Borremanses include MOCA, the MFA Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, SFMOMA and the Walker Art Center.

The first two paintings in this post are Borremans’ A2 (2004) and The Giant (2007). Borremans and host Tyler Green discussed them in the context of Gerhard Richter’s masterpiece Betty (1998) at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Hear this week’s MAN Podcast and see more Borremanses discussed on this week’s show here.

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