Episode No. 784 features author Wanda Corn.

Corn is the author of "The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon," which was just published by Princeton University Press. The book tells the story of Grant Wood's iconic 1930 American Gothic, following it from its debut in an Art Institute of Chicago annual exhibition to its present-day status as an icon of US culture. After a deep dive into the painting's sources and making, Corn details its presence within other art and US popular culture. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $40-47.

Air date: November 12, 2026.

Episode No. 783 features artist Cynthia Daignault.

The Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston is presenting "Cynthia Daignault: Valley" through January 18, 2027. The exhibition features a monumental, multi-panel paintings installation that shows the most iconic Miwuk landscape: an elevated view looking east into the Yosemite Valley that includes El Capitan on the left and Bridalveil Fall on the right. Since 1851, the United States has claimed this unceded Native land for itself. Between 1863-66, this is the land on which the US invented the national park, in part to eliminate the possibility of Native life within this landscape. While the invention of the national park helped cement the US claim to this land, Native people have lived here since time immemorial, and continue to. "Valley" was organized by Jeffrey De Blois with Meghan Clare Considine.

Daignault is also featured in "BMA Celebrates MICA 200" at the Baltimore Museum of Art through January 3, 2027. The exhibition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Maryland Institute College of Art through work made by alumni and professors. It was curated by Antoinette Roberts, Cecilia Wichmann, Oscar Flores Montero, and Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill.

Daignault ... The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the FLAG Art Foundation, the Hudson River Museum, and the Orange County Museum of Art (now the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art) are among the museums and kunsthalles that have presented solo exhibitions of her work. Daignault has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the MCA Chicago, the New Museum, New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and plenty more.

Works and exhibitions discussed on the program include:

• Light Atlas, 2016;
• "Elegy" at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, 2019; and
• Daignault's 2011 White Columns exhibition.

Instagram: Cynthia Daignault, Tyler Green.

Air date: November 5, 2026.

Episode No. 782 features artist Terry Winters, and remembers the late artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.

The Menil Collection, Houston is showing "Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry" through April 4, 2027. The exhibition presents 44 prints and works on paper recently acquired by the museum. It was curated by Sophie Asakura.

Four four decades Winters has joined abstraction to addresses of the natural world. Among the major museums that have presented solo exhibitions of his work are the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.

This is Winters' third visit to the program. He was a guest on Episodes No. 16 and No. 338.

As mentioned on the program:

• The Colby College Museum of Art has a complete collection of Winters prints. View it here;
• Winters' 2014 "Atmospheres" series;
• Winters' prints with ULAE;
• James Rosenquist, Circles of Confusion, 1965/66;
• Winters' 2024 "Point Cloud" exhibition at Matthew Marks, New York;
• Winters' 2026 "Along the River" exhibition at Modern Art, London;
• Winters' 1989 "Furrows" series with Peter Blum Edition; and
• Winters' 2024 "Azimuth" series with Two Palms;

On the second segment, remembering Ursula von Rydingsvard, who died this week. She was 84. von Rydingsvard was a guest on the program twice: on Episode No. 345, and on a COVID pandemic-era special episode in March 2020. The excerpt re-aired on this week's program is from that second visit.

As mentioned on the program:

• von Rydingsvard's 2011 Archives of American Art oral history.

Instagram: Terry Winters, Tyler Green.

Air date: October 29. 2026.