Howardena Pindell on Social Change
Howardena Pindell discusses how social issues and the prospect of societal change impact her art...
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Season 2, Episode 8: Sonia De Los Santos and Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar”
Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different...
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Season 2, Episode 7: Maria Schneider and George Bellows’s “The Lone Tenement”
Maria Schneider composed “Bulería, Soleá y Rumba” in the wake of a cancer diagnosis. Inspired by...
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Season 2: Episode 6: Delfeayo Marsalis and Hawkins Bolden’s “Untitled”
This work reminds jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis of the proud, hard-working generations that...
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Clint Smith, Renée Stout, and Hank Willis Thomas present on the role of history and memory in...
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Erica Buddington, Nona Faustine, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers present archival research–based...
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Artists Rosana Paulino and Cameron Rowland explore the lasting legacy of slavery in their works...
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Season 2: Episode 5: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser”
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus...
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Season 2, Episode 4: Daniel Ho and Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series
Musician Daniel Ho spent much of his childhood on the water, so he relates to Thomas Cole’s river...
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Season 2, Episode 3: Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy
Rapper Sa-Roc’s music speaks to different aspects of Black experience, including the...
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Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s "Laocoön"
In “Sand Dipper,” jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This...
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Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s "Orphée"
Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the...
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American University’s Feminist Art History Conference 2021: Feminist Issues in Art Museums
The final session of American University’s Feminist Art History Conference, cohosted by the...
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Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, cultural advocate, and president of The...
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Presentations on Thomas’s aesthetic and social environment by Melanee Harvey, Margie Jervis,...
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Presentations on Thomas’s studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and...
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Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, cultural advocate, and president of The...
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Elson Lecture 2021: Mark Bradford
Working at the intersection of event and art, Mark Bradford explores social and political...
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Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2021: Josephine Baker as a “Rememory” of Global Black Cinema?
In her 2021 Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture, Terri Simone Francis reflects on Josephine Baker’s...
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In this lecture, released on December 3, 2021, Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), associate...
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