Humboldt in the US, "Riffs and Relations"

Episode No. 466 features curators Eleanor Jones Harvey and Adrienne L. Childs. Harvey is the curator of “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It examines the impacts of Humboldt’s six-week 1804 visit to the United States. It is on view through January 3. Childs is the curator of “Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition” at the Phillips Collection, on view through January