Tyler Green, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner

**Tyler Green** is a critic, author, historian, and longtime host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. He is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Tyler on our website. We invited Tyler to have a conversation about his work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Tyler in the Edgar Shannon Library at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va, by Kevin J Miyazaki. The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity. **Mentioned in this episode:** \* The Modern Art Notes Podcast \* A Return to Round Top by Tyler Green (Medium, Nov. 10, 2014) \* The Yosemite by John Muir (Dover Publications, 2018, reprint of Century Co., 1920) \* Artist Juan Gris \* Juan Gris exhibit curated by Mark Rosenthal (National Gallery of the Arts, 1983-84) \* When Richard Diebenkorn Worked Through Henri Matisse’s Greatest Painting by Tyler Green (Medium, Jan. 15, 2016) \* Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship by Jack Flam (Basic Books/Hachette Book Group, 2008) \* Matisse/Diebenkorn exhibit (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2017) \* Artist Robert Colescott \* Gerhard Richter: ‘Post-remembering’ the Holocaust in German Contemporary Art by Kris Belden-Adams (European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, 2016) \* Uncle Rudi by Gerhard Richter (1965) \* Gerhard Richter’s Uncle Rudi: Hidden History talk with René Block and Miloslav Vorlíček (Centre Tchèque Paris, 2026) \* No. 769: Remembering Betye Saar The Modern Arts Notes Podcast (July 30, 2026) \* Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green (University of California Press, 2020) \* Emerson’s ‘Nature’ and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea by Tyler Green (Prestel Publishing, 2021) \* Photographer Carleton Watkins \* Artist Albert Bierstadt \* Lewis Hine’s photographs for the National Child Labor Committee Library of Congress \* The Ahwahneechees: A Story of the Yosemite Indians by John W. Bingaman (1966) \* Fire Over Ahwahnee: John Muir and the Decline of Yosemite by Eric Michael Johnson (Scientific American, Aug. 13, 2014) \* Artist Jacob Lawrence \* Jacob Lawrence: ‘The American Struggle’ exhibit curated by Randall Griffey and Sylvia Yount (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, fall 2020) \* Reckoning with American History in Jacob Lawrence’s ‘The American Struggle,’ abridged interview with historian Carroll Greene (Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, 1968) \* Historian John Hope Franklin (Library of Congress Resource Guide, 2024) \* Scholar Gary B. Nash obituary by Clay Risen (The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2021) \* Legal scholar Rogers M. Smith \* Scholar Benedict Anderson \* The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge, 1994) \* ​​National Parks movement EBSCO Information Services Inc. \* No. 387: American art and the Vietnam War The Modern Arts Notes Podcast (April 4, 2019) \* Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 curated by Melissa Ho (Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2019) \* Second-wave Environmentalism \* Harriet Beecher Stowe \* Artist Marguerite Zorach \* Photographer Ansel Adams \* Artist Kay WalkingStick \* New River Gorge National Park & Preserve \* Legendary Teamwork of Moran and Jackson Puts Yellowstone on the Map by Christine Gianas Weinheimer (Yellowstone Quarterly, fall 2019) \* Photographer George Masa \* The Twisted History of the Gateway Arch by Fred Kaplan (Smithsonian Magazine, October 2015) \* Yosemite Museum \* American Indian Basketry California State Parks \* Artist and editor Wilson Butterworth \* Archives of American Art, Oral History Program (Smithsonian Institution) \* No. 748: Edmonia Lewis (The Modern Arts Notes Podcast, March 5, 2026)Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone exhibit (Peabody Essex Museum, 2026) \* No. 615: David Bindman (The Modern Arts Notes Podcast, Aug. 17, 2024) \* Frank Day: Memory and Imagination by Abby Wasserman (The Museum of California magazine, Oakland Museum of California, 1997) \* Artist Dalbert Castro Autry Museum of the American West \* Denver Art Museum \* Dawoud Bey: Elegy exhibit (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2023-2024) \* Writer Catherine G. Wagley (2019 Rabkin Prize winner) \* Writer Carolina A. Miranda (2017 Rabkin Prize winner) \* Writer Siddhartha Mitter (2024 Rabkin Prize winner) \* Writer Paul Chaat Smith (2025 Rabkin Prize winner) \* Will L.A. County Give Its Art the Space It’s Due? by Tyler Green (Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2015) \* Trump Is Missing the Entire Point of Arches by Tyler Green (The Atlantic, May 21, 2026) \* Artist Kerry James Marshall \* No. 86: Kerry James Marshall (The Modern Art Notes Podcast, June 27, 2013) \* Professor Saidiya V. Hartman \* 1933 International Conference of American States and the Good Neighbor Policy (Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State) \* Artist Frederic Edwin Church \* Artist Stephanie Syjuco \* Inventing Peace by Lawrence Weschler (The New Yorker, Nov. 13, 1995) \* No. 754: Vermeer: An interview with Andrew Graham-Dixon and Rachel Burgess (The Modern Art Notes Podcast, April 16, 2026) \* Scholar Simon Schama \* How Is Trump Targeting Universities, and How Are They Responding? by​​ Alan Blinder (The New York Times, July 1, 2026) \* Panorama journal \* [*In The Tower: Kerry James Marshall \[and Tyler Green\]*](https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-10-28/tower-kerry-james-marshall/) (The Kojo Nnamdi Show podcast, Oct. 28, 2013) \* Art historian and curator Franklin Kelly \* Trump orders warning about ‘inaccurate information’ be placed outside D.C. museum by Janet W. Lee (*Morning Edition,* National Public Radio, July 27, 2026) \* Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution Executive Order 14416 (July 24, 2026) \* Los Angeles County Museum of Art \* Oakland Museum of California \* San Francisco Museum of Modern Art \* Artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller \* Henry Luce Foundation \* Terra Foundation for American Art \* Antebellum art \* America’s Moral Volcano by Eleanor James Harvey (The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2013) \* Joan Didion Archive \* To the American Indian by Lucy Thompson (self-published, 1916) This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The interview was conducted by Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. The portraits were made by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The production team includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer; Johnathon Olsen, editor; with research and copy editing by Danielle Yovino and Nan Williams. Music is *HaHaHa* by Ariel Shalom, *Present in the Past* by Flint, *Oh The Sunset* by Just for Kicks, and *cinnamonrolls* by Out of Flux. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rabkinfoundation.substack.com