Episode No. 652 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Denise Murrell and Larisa Grollemond.
Murrell is the curator of “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition, which is on view through July 28, explores the ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday life and impacted art on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. An outstanding exhibition catalogue was published by the Met. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $50-60.
Additional images of works discussed on the program:
- Winold Reiss, Alain Leroy Locke, 1925;
- Winold Reiss, Langston Hughes, 1925;
- Laura Wheeler Waring, James Weldon Johnson, 1943;
- Charles Henry Alston, Girl in a Red Dress, 1934;
- Hale Woodruff, Twilight, 1926; and
- Romare Bearden, The Block, 1971.
Grollemond curated “Blood: Medieval/Modern,” which is at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles through May 19. The exhibition looks at how and why blood has been represented in medieval manuscripts and in some contemporary art too.
Instagram: Denise Murrell, Larisa Grollemond, Tyler Green.
Air date: May 2, 2024.
Jacob Lawrence, The Photographer, 1942.
Augusta Savage, Gamin, 1929.
Augusta Savage, Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp), 1939.
William H. Johnson, Man in a Vest, 1939-40.
No longer known, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1450s.
Taddeo Crivelli, Saint Peter Martyr, about 1469.
No longer known/Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, A Massacre of Family Members, about 1460-70.
William Vrelant, Christ’s Left Hand with Wound, early 1460s.
Master of Sir John Fastolf, The Crucifixion, about 1430-40.
Pseudo-Jacquemart de Hesdin, The Birth of the Virgin, about 1410.
Master of Jacques of Luxembourg, The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, about 1466-70.
No longer known, The Side Wound of Christ, ca. 1480-90.
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