Episode No. 656 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons and curator Lauren Applebaum.

“María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold”, now at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, is the first multimedia survey of Campos-Pons’ work in 17 years. The exhibition spotlights Campos-Pons’ photography, installation, and performance-based practices, which typically address global histories of enslavement, indentured labor, motherhood, and migration — and how their impacts continue into the present. The exhibition is on view at Duke through June 9. It was curated by Carmen Hermo and Mazie Harris with Jenée-Daria Strand. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by the Getty and the Brooklyn Museum. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $33-42.

Campos-Pons is also featured in “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. The exhibition foregrounds forms that reveal new modes of thinking about identity and place in the work of artists who live in the Caribbean or are of Caribbean heritage. Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates with Iris Colburn, Isabel Casso, and Nolan Jimbo, it’s on view at MCASD through July 28.

On the program host Tyler Green mentions this excellent website published by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. on the occasion of its 2016 Campos-Pons exhibition. Campos-Pons mentioned Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

With Daniel Ackermann, Lea Lane, and Jenny Garwood, Applebaum is a co-curator of “Layered Legacies: Quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. The exhibition includes more than 30 quilts and related objects from the MESDA collection (as well as some from private collections) and presents new, revised investigations into their making. It is on view through July 21. NCMA published a catalogue to accompany the exhibition; it is only available at the museum.

Air date: May 30, 2024.