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January 21: Join artists Walid Raad and Hans Haacke, MoMA Director Glenn Lowry, and others for a discussion on the role of museums in society today. 

“The post-World War II economic boom and the introduction of the interstate freeway system cemented the automobile’s preeminence in the United States. Advertisements, billboards, storefronts, and signage associated with car travel had been fertile iconography in the 1930s and 1940s for photographers such as Walker Evans, Russell Lee, and Rudy Burckhardt. In the next three decades, Robert Franck, Lee Friedlander, Dennis Hopper, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr., followed in their wake, exploiting the windshield and rearview mirror as framing devices, billboard imagery, and the elegance of a single telephone pole at the side of the highway. The car-bound perspective increasingly came to typify pictures of the West.”

Eva Respini, from her essay in Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West

Episode No. 123 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlighted, "Robert Heinecken: Object Matter," the retrospective organized by Museum of Modern Art curator Eva Respini. The exhibition is now on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles through Jan. 18, 2015.

Heinecken was a pioneer in using media to critique media, a practice that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have adapted for a television age. Heinecken rarely took his own photographs, instead using existing images and long-familiar photographic and printing techniques to create new semi-collages made up of multiple images. 

This is a detail from one of Heinecken's 120 MANSMAGs, re-made periodicals in which Heinecken addressed the use of sex and sexuality to sell pretty much everything, from sex itself to household products. The MANSMAG works also highlight the often empty interchangeability of pornographic images.

Eva Respini, the guest on the Heinecken segment, has curated exhibitions of Cindy Sherman and with Vik Muniz. Her many projects are chronicled at her website. She organized "Heinecken" with curatorial fellow Drew Sawyer.

On the second segment, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Anne Wilkes Tucker discusses Heinecken as a conceptualist. On the occasion of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's 1999 Heinecken retrospective, Tucker gave a lecture in which she posited that in the future the conceptual nature of Heinecken's practice would be more valued and more useful to other artists than it was then. Did her prediction come true?

Tucker was most recently a guest on The MAN Podcast to discuss an MFAH exhibition she co-curated titled, "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath."

Listen to or download the Smithson MAN Podcast on SoundCloud, via direct-link mp3, or subscribe to The MAN Podcast (for free) at:

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This week's Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights conceptual photographer Robert Heinecken with Museum of Modern Art curator Eva Respini.

Heinecken was a pioneer in using media to critique media, a practice that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have adapted for a television age. Heinecken rarely took his own photographs, instead using existing images and long-familiar photographic and printing techniques to create new semi-collages made up of multiple images. Heinecken's work is the subject of "Robert Heinecken: Object Matter," a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition runs through September 7.

Early in his career Heinecken made a number of 'photograph-sculptures' in which he presented human forms on an armature that insisted upon viewer interaction. This is Figure in Six Selections (1965), which asks a viewer to arrange a woman's body as a painter or photographer might ask a model to arrange herself. 

Eva Respini has organized exhibitions of Cindy Sherman and with Vik Muniz. Her many projects are chronicled at her website. She organized "Heinecken" with curatorial fellow Drew Sawyer.

On the second segment, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Anne Wilkes Tucker discusses Heinecken as a conceptualist. On the occasion of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's 1999 Heinecken retrospective, Tucker gave a lecture in which she posited that in the future the conceptual nature of Heinecken's practice would be more valued and more useful to other artists than it was then. Did her prediction come true?

Tucker was most recently a guest on The MAN Podcast to discuss an MFAH exhibition she co-curated titled, "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath."

Listen to or download the Smithson MAN Podcast on SoundCloud, via direct-link mp3, or subscribe to The MAN Podcast (for free) at:

iTunes; 

SoundCloud; 

Stitcher; or

via RSS. 

This week's Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights conceptual photographer Robert Heinecken with Museum of Modern Art curator Eva Respini.

Heinecken was a pioneer in using media to critique media, a practice that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have adapted for a television age. Heinecken rarely took his own photographs, instead using existing images and long-familiar photographic and printing techniques to create new semi-collages made up of multiple images. Heinecken's work is the subject of "Robert Heinecken: Object Matter," a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition is in member previews, opens tomorrow, and runs through September 7.

While Heinecken is best-known for his interest in and his critiques of sex in media, he also made a substantial body of work about violence in media, and the ways in which violence and sex were (often unintentionally) juxtaposed to help sell products. Today on MANPodcast.com we'll be spotlighting Heinecken's violence-themed work.

These are two-page spreads from Heinecken's Periodical #1 (1969). The first image features a report on the My Lai massacre and a pornographic image, and the second features Heinecken's use of a news photograph of a Cambodian soldier holding two severed heads. Heinecken's 'periodicals' were modified magazines that were often inserted back into newsstands for unsuspecting consumers to purchase. They address many issues, including the sometimes surreal juxtaposition of sex and news coverage of violence. 

Eva Respini has organized exhibitions of Cindy Sherman and with Vik Muniz. Her many projects are chronicled at her website. She organized "Heinecken" with curatorial fellow Drew Sawyer.

On the second segment, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Anne Wilkes Tucker discusses Heinecken as a conceptualist. On the occasion of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's 1999 Heinecken retrospective, Tucker gave a lecture in which she posited that in the future the conceptual nature of Heinecken's practice would be more valued and more useful to other artists than it was then. Did her prediction come true?

Tucker was most recently a guest on The MAN Podcast to discuss an MFAH exhibition she co-curated titled, "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath."

Listen to or download the Smithson MAN Podcast on SoundCloud, via direct-link mp3, or subscribe to The MAN Podcast (for free) at:

iTunes; 

SoundCloud; 

Stitcher; or

via RSS. 

This week's Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights conceptual photographer Robert Heinecken with Museum of Modern Art curator Eva Respini.

Heinecken was a pioneer in using media to critique media, a practice that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have adapted for a television age. Heinecken rarely took his own photographs, instead using existing images and long-familiar photographic and printing techniques to create new semi-collages made up of multiple images. Heinecken's work is the subject of "Robert Heinecken: Object Matter," a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition is in member previews, opens on Saturday, and runs through September 7.

While Heinecken is best-known for his interest in and his critiques of sex in media, he also made a substantial body of work about violence in media, and the ways in which violence and sex were (often unintentionally) juxtaposed to help sell products. Today on MANPodcast.com we'll be spotlighting Heinecken's violence-themed work.

This is an untitled, undated off-set lithograph Heinecken made. It features a typical example of Heinecken using one of his 'favorite' news images -- a Cambodian soldier holding two severed heads -- and presenting it in a single image with the sort of news magazine advertisement that would have 'accompanied' the photograph. This piece is in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Ariz.

Eva Respini has organized exhibitions of Cindy Sherman and with Vik Muniz. Her many projects are chronicled at her website. She organized "Heinecken" with curatorial fellow Drew Sawyer.

On the second segment, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Anne Wilkes Tucker discusses Heinecken as a conceptualist. On the occasion of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's 1999 Heinecken retrospective, Tucker gave a lecture in which she posited that in the future the conceptual nature of Heinecken's practice would be more valued and more useful to other artists than it was then. Did her prediction come true?

Tucker was most recently a guest on The MAN Podcast to discuss an MFAH exhibition she co-curated titled, "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath."

Listen to or download the Smithson MAN Podcast on SoundCloud, via direct-link mp3, or subscribe to The MAN Podcast (for free) at:

iTunes; 

SoundCloud; 

Stitcher; or

via RSS.