Episode No. 449 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features author Nicole R. Fleetwood and curator Allegra Pesenti.

Fleetwood is the author of “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” an examination of how the imprisoned have turned to art-making in an attempt to resist the brutality and depravity of American imprisonment. The book was published by Harvard University Press. Amazon offers it for $30.

An exhibition of the same title is forthcoming at MoMA PS1. It was curated by Fleetwood and Amy Rosenblum-Martin, with Jocelyn Miller. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, MoMA PS1 has yet to announce opening and closing dates for the exhibition. A museum spokesperson said that the exhibition will open whenever the museum re-opens. “Marking Time” features art made by people in prisons and by non-incarcerated artists concerned with issues related to repression and imprisonment in America.

Fleetwood is a professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University.

Links to topics discussed on the program:

• The Drawing Center, New York’s 2019-20 exhibition “The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists”;
• Information about UCLA professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez.

On the second segment, Hammer Museum curator Allegra Pesenti discusses several recent acquisitions at the Hammer’s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

Instagram: Nicole R. Fleetwood, Tyler Green.

Air date: June 11, 2020.