Miró and the US, Parasol Press

Episode No. 760 features curators Marko Daniel and Elsa Smithgall, and curator Rachel Vogel.

With Matthew Gale and Dolors Rodríguez Roig, Daniel and Smithgall are the co-curators of "Miró and the United States" at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. The exhibition explores the exchanges between Joan Miró and the mid-twentieth-century US art scene. Not only did Miró have retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1941 and 1959, but he traveled to the US seven times between 1947 and 1968, when he made a point of seeing US art and visiting US artists. The exhibition at the Phillips is on view through July 5. The Phillips and the Fundació Joan Miró have published a catalogue; the Phillips offers it for $65.

As discussed on the program:

• Alexander Calder, Calder's Circus, 1926-31;
• "High Wire: Calder's Circus at 100" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
• Joan Miró's Constellations, 1940-41;
• Joan Miró, Blue Triptych, 1961; and
• "Miró Mural," exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948;

Vogel is the curator of "Parasol Press: Breaking New Ground," a survey of Parasol Press' 1970-2014 output at the Addison Art Gallery, Andover, Mass. Robert Feldman's Parasol Press came to significance by working with minimalist and conceptualist artist such as Dorothea Rockburne, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Sol LeWitt, Chuck Close, and more. The exhibition is on view through July 31.

Instagram: Rachel Vogel, Tyler Green.

Air date: May 28, 2026.