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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year.

Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

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Image: Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-Portrait) (detail), 1985.

Kaws | Focus:Kaws Exhibition at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

On Friday the latest Kaws museum exhibition opened its doors at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The work of Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. “KAWS,” is the subject of the first Focus exhibition for the 2011–2012 season. KAWS’s vast body of work includes graffiti (early in his career), murals, paintings, and sculpture. Following along the continuum of Pop art, his work critiques contemporary consumer culture, blurring the boundaries between it and the art world. Building an artistic language, which includes altered forms of familiar animated characters, such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man, and SpongeBob SquarePants, his cartoonlike hybrids are often depicted in various states of the human condition. The exhibition will be open until February 19th, 2012.