{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Easter clips: Melvin Edwards","description":"Episode No. 752 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Melvin Edwards. Edwards, one of the most important and influential sculptors of his generation, the rare artist whose work simultaneously addressed the past, the present, and the future, died on March 30. He was 88. This program was taped in 2015 when the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas opened the major retrospective \u201cMelvin Edwards: Five Decades.\u201d It was the first Edwards museum retrospective in 20 years, and the most thorough. "Five Decades" was organized by Catherine Craft. It included a re-creation of Edwards\u2019 important 1970 installation of barbed-wire sculptures at the Whitney Museum of American Art, dozens of Edwards\u2019 best-known works, his \u2018lynch fragments\u2019 series, and more. The show traveled to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers and to the Columbus Museum of Art. The show\u2019s excellent catalogue was published by the Nasher and appears to have sold out. Amazon offers it used for about $100. The Nasher\u2019s website features a Q&A between Craft and Edwards that host Tyler Green mentions on the program. For images, see Episode No. 170. ","author_name":"The Modern Art Notes Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/manpodcast.com","html":"