Gabriel Kuri

This special Tuesday Evenings presentation features artist Gabriel Kuri in conversation with Tyler Green for a live-audience taping of an episode of The Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Gabriel Kuri's poetic works composed of materials accumulated from the flux of life are showcased in the Modern's current exhibition México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990. Born in Mexico, Kuri is an international artist who lives and works in Mexico City, Brussels, and Los Angeles. He has shown internationally for more than fifteen years, with inclusion in renowned group exhibitions such as ILLUMINations, the curated exhibition for the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008, the critically acclaimed Brave New Worlds at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Unmonumental at the New Museum in New York in 2007, as well as recent solo exhibitions in Norway, Beirut, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Boston, and Houston.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is the most-listened-to audio program on art in the United States. Guests have included artists Richard Serra, Robert Irwin, Julie Mehretu, Sophie Calle, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Adams, Shirin Neshat, Fred Wilson, Barbara Kruger, Francis Alÿs, Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Bradford, and Chris Burden; art historians Leah Dickerman, David Anfam, Helen Langdon, Stephanie Barron, Michael Auping, and Jonathan Brown; and Pulitzer Prize-winners Mark Stevens, Sebastian Smee, and Paul Goldberger. The Modern is happy to serve as the location of a Modern Art Notes Podcast with Gabriel Kuri for Tuesday Evenings at the Modern.

Gabriel Kuri's profound ideas as realized in his artistic practice, in combination with Tyler Green's fascination with and commitment to art, make this Tuesday Evenings presentation a promising hour of insights and meaningful information.