Nzinga Simmons, Jacob Lawrence

Episode No. 460 features critic Nzinga Simmons and curator Elizabeth Turner. Simmons joins host Tyler Green to discuss the Vanity Fair cover featuring an Amy Sherald painting of Breonna Taylor. Simmons is a PhD candidate in art history and visual culture at Duke University. Along with Austen Barron Bailly, Turner is the co-curator of “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle.” It opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York today (to members), and on August 29 (to the general public).