Jess T. Dugan, D.B. Dowd

Episode No. 755 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Jess T. Dugan and author D.B. Dowd. Radius Books is publishing "Jess T. Dugan & Charlotte Cotton: Love Pictures," a collaboration featuring Dugan's photographs and conversations with Cotton and members of Cotton's and Dugan's communities, such as Dawoud Bey, Kate Palmer Albers, and Michelle Millar Fisher. Radius , Amazon , and Bookshop offer the two-volume publication for about $75. Dugan is a St. Louis-based artist whose work explores subjects such as personhood, relationship, desire, and love. Their work is in the collection of over 70 museums. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the University of New Mexico Art Museum are among the institutions that have presented solo exhibitions of Dugan's work. This is Dugan's sixth book. Dowd is the author of "Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration," which was just published by Princeton University Press. "Reading Pictures" details how, for many centuries, illustration has often worked between written, published text and art history to advance ideas and ideologies. Princeton , Amazon , and Bookshop offer it for $52-60. Instagram: Jess T. Dugan , D.B. Dowd , Tyler Green. Air date: April 23, 2026.

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Jess T. Dugan, D.B. Dowd is an episode from The Modern Art Notes Podcast by Tyler Green.

This episode is 01:21:17 long.

This episode was published on Apr 23, 2026.

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