John Constable, Bruce Nauman

Episode No. 780 features curator Edward Town and author Tim Barringer, and curator Leigh Arnold.

The Yale Center for British Art is presenting Town's "John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined" through July 25, 2027. The exhibition examines Constable's open-air paintings, pictures which helped transform European landscape painting, and which had significant impacts on United States painters too. "Constable" features works such as cloud studies, oil sketches, and two of Constable's vaunted six-footers, including YCBA's own Hadleigh Castle, one of the most iconic works of English landscape painting. It is the only major US exhibition of Constable's work on the 250th anniversary of his birth. The exhibition is accompanied by Barringer's Constable, the third installment in YCBA's Collection Series. The book includes a contribution from Nicholas Robbins. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for $35-37.

Arnold is the curator of "Bruce Nauman: Identical" at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The exhibition features a group of polyurethane, silicone rubber, and plaster-cast animal forms, alongside a rotating selection of drawings and a 3D video, made from elements that the artist had in his New Mexico studio. It is on view through March 21, 2027.

Works discussed on the program include:

• Bruce Nauman, Animal Pyramid, 1989; and
• Bruce Nauman, Carousel (stainless steel version), 1988.

Instagram: Edward Town, Tim Barringer, Leigh Arnold, Tyler Green.

Air date: October 15, 2026.