Sound Thoughts on Art
National Gallery of Art
1 Listener
All episodes
Best episodes
Seasons
Top 10 Sound Thoughts on Art Episodes
Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Sound Thoughts on Art episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Sound Thoughts on Art for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Sound Thoughts on Art episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
Season 1: Episode 1: Lara Downes and "Tomorrow I May Be Far Away"
Sound Thoughts on Art
10/27/21 • 25 min
Art meets us where we are. For classical pianist and activist Lara Downes, Romare Bearden’s collage parallels her own life and family story: a puzzle full of questions and unfinished business. On her journey inside Bearden’s work, Downes travels backward to explore Black memory. In response to the collage, she brings together different musical sources, overlaying sounds that sit together comfortably at times and create tension at others, giving them the freedom to coexist.
Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at www.nga.gov/music-programs/podc...ay-be-far-away.html.
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
E-News: https://nga.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e894a1837aca4526f7e8a11b3&id=2085ff9475
1 Listener
Season 2, Episode 3: Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy
Sound Thoughts on Art
03/22/22 • 36 min
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 “Forever” invites listeners not to hide, but to shine and share their “inner light” with the world.
Find full transcript and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/sa-roc-margaret-burroughs-sleeping-boy.html
Image credit: Margaret Burroughs, Sleeping Boy (also known as Mexican Boy) (detail), 1953, linocut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.28
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
Season 1: Episode 2: Daniel Bernard Roumain and "American Gothic"
Sound Thoughts on Art
10/27/21 • 23 min
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain sees pain, legacy, and enduring hope in this famous photograph of Ella Watson, one of many by Gordon Parks. Performance poet Lady Caress describes it as “the physical form of stolen expectations.” Together, they respond to the iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hopes to capture the rhythm of Watson’s life—an elegy for someone he longs to have known.
Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at www.nga.gov/music-programs/podc...merican-gothic.html.
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
E-News: https://nga.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e894a1837aca4526f7e8a11b3&id=2085ff9475
Season 1: "Sound Thoughts on Art" trailer
Sound Thoughts on Art
10/27/21 • 0 min
The arts can engage all our senses, but it’s in the crossover between them that things really get interesting. When we listen to music, what do we see in our mind’s eye? When we look at a work of art, what do we hear? Sound Thoughts on Art, a new podcast from the National Gallery of Art, explores the intersection of sight and sound.
Hosted by musician and journalist Celeste Headlee, each episode focuses on a work of art in the National Gallery’s collection. Learn about the work and its context and hear a musician respond to that work through sound, creating a dialogue between visual art and music. Sound Thoughts on Art tells the stories of how we experience art and how it connects us.
Find more information about this episode at www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts.html
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nati...rt/id1552618916), Google Podcasts (podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly...AAAAAHQAAAAAQBA), Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/7cyalz9GPgP...8nTY6xdrUUGHn46A), Stitcher (www.stitcher.com/show/sound-thoughts-on-art), or your favorite podcast app.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
E-News: https://nga.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e894a1837aca4526f7e8a11b3&id=2085ff9475
Season 2: Episode 5: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser”
Sound Thoughts on Art
04/19/22 • 47 min
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 plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality.
Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/peter-sheppard-skaerved-hieronymus-bosch-death-miser.html
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Image credit: Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Miser (detail), c. 1485/1490, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.33
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s “Orphée”
Sound Thoughts on Art
02/22/22 • 35 min
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 instrumental song helps the emotional weight sink in.
Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/dom-flemons-marc-chagall-orphee.html.
Image credit: Marc Chagall, Orphée, 1969, stone and glass mosaic, National Gallery of Art, Washington, The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection, 2011.60.104.1–10
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
E-News: https://nga.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e894a1837aca4526f7e8a11b3&id=2085ff9475
Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s “Laocoön”
Sound Thoughts on Art
03/08/22 • 33 min
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’s face as he looks up for the last time.
Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/jenny-scheinman-el-greco-laocoon.html.
Image credit: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Laocoön, c. 1610/1614, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946.18.1
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
E-News: https://nga.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e894a1837aca4526f7e8a11b3&id=2085ff9475
Bonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem”
Sound Thoughts on Art
11/23/21 • 27 min
In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears “Lenox Avenue,” a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice. Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts.html.
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
E-News: https://nga.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e894a1837aca4526f7e8a11b3&id=2085ff9475
Season 1: Episode 3: Bora Yoon and "Ommah"
Sound Thoughts on Art
10/27/21 • 25 min
Nam June Paik used Ommah, Korean for “mother,” as the title of his final video sculpture. For composer and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon, this evokes the mother tongue and the motherland. Through the concept of cultural blood memory, Yoon explores whether we carry the sounds and memories of our people within us. She responds to Paik’s work by bringing together traditional Korean instruments and her own eclectic electronic music.
Find full transcripts and more information about this episode at www.nga.gov/music-programs/podc...yoon-and-ommah.html.
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
E-News: https://nga.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e894a1837aca4526f7e8a11b3&id=2085ff9475
Season 2: Episode 6: Delfeayo Marsalis and Hawkins Bolden’s “Untitled”
Sound Thoughts on Art
05/03/22 • 30 min
This work reminds jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis of the proud, hard-working generations that raised him. A history of struggle may suggest the minor key, but Marsalis ultimately chose upbeat music to celebrate those who fought and made it work.
Find full transcript and more information about this episode at https://www.nga.gov/music-programs/podcasts/delfeayo-marsalis-hawkins-bolden-untitled.html
Image credit: Hawkins Bolden, Untitled, 1980/1987, shovel head, garden hose, and wire, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.28.10
Subscribe directly to Sound Thoughts on Art from the National Gallery of Art on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NGAT6207729686.
Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?
National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS
National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
More National Gallery of Art Content:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ngadc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ngadc/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ngadc/_created/
Show more best episodes
Show more best episodes
FAQ
How many episodes does Sound Thoughts on Art have?
Sound Thoughts on Art currently has 20 episodes available.
What topics does Sound Thoughts on Art cover?
The podcast is about Music, Podcasts, Music Interviews and Music Commentary.
What is the most popular episode on Sound Thoughts on Art?
The episode title 'Season 1: Episode 1: Lara Downes and "Tomorrow I May Be Far Away"' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Sound Thoughts on Art?
The average episode length on Sound Thoughts on Art is 29 minutes.
When was the first episode of Sound Thoughts on Art?
The first episode of Sound Thoughts on Art was released on Oct 27, 2021.
Show more FAQ
Show more FAQ