National Gallery of Art | Talks Podcast
1) 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 Bosch’s “Death and the Miser” and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved pl...Show More
2) 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 vulnerability of many Black kids—similar to the boy in Margaret Burroughs’s linocut, who hides himself. Her song “F...Show More
3) 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 paintings. Ho responds to Voyage of Life with an original suite. Starting with simple harmonies to rep...Show More
4) 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 music, Scheinman says, sounds how El Greco’s painting looks. And it feels like the question on Laocoön...Show More
5) 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 beautiful scene of two lovers embracing. Flemons pairs it with the tranquil “Blue Butterfly.” The inst...Show More
6) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session I: An Evening Celebration of Alma Thomas
Presentations on Thomas’s studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated by...Show More
7) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session II: Alma Thomas’s Studio Practice and DC Cultural Institutions
Presentations on Thomas’s studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated by...Show More
8) 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 National Gallery, brings together distinguished curators to discuss contemporary issues in museum practice. ...Show More
9) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Session III: The Nation’s Capital in the Time of Alma Thomas
Presentations on Thomas’s aesthetic and social environment by Melanee Harvey, Margie Jervis, Marya McQuirter, and Thaïsa Way, followed with discussion moderated by Charles Brock. Melanee Harvey, assis...Show More
10) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration 2021: Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful: The Infiniteness of Alma Thomas
Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, cultural advocate, and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harl...Show More