Podcast appearances and mentions of Vanessa K Vald

A conversation about the 17th-century Spanish painter, famously depicted by Diego Velázquez, on his own terms.

This week: Ben Luke talks to Melanie Gerlis about the recent turbulence in the banking sector, as US banks go under, an ailing Credit Suisse is acquired by UBS and Deutsche Bank shares fall at one point by 14%. What are the implications for the art world? Melanie also explains the figures in the latest Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. The Baltimore Museum of Art in the US this week opens the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. We speak to Asma Naeem, the director of the BMA and co-curator of the show, about what she's called “the second pop art movement”. And this episode's Work of the Week is The Calling of Saint Matthew by the 17th-century Afro-Hispanic artist Juan de Pareja. He is best known as the subject of one of the greatest ever portraits, by Diego Velázquez, the artist who enslaved Pareja for two decades before his manumission in Rome in 1650. David Pullins and Vanessa K. Valdés, the curators of a new exhibition about Juan de Pareja at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, tell us about the painting.The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, until 16 July; St Louis Art Museum, 26 August-1 January 2024.Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 16 July. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In honor of Black History Month, we're covering the lesser discussed history of Afro-Latinos every Wednesday of February. When we think of Black heroes, people like Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson, or Rosa Parks may come to mind. Seldom do we think of Afro-Latinos or even realize some of our Black icons have Latino roots. Vanessa K. Valdés, associate provost for Community Engagement at The City College of New York and author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (SUNY Press, 2017), discusses iconic Afro-Latinos and their contributions to political movements, art, and culture.

Today is the birthday of a man who gave our city one of its finest institutions: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. His life's work led to the creation of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. In order to learn more about the man behind the National Landmark, we are joined by Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés, author of Diasporic Blackness: the Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

Every year, The City College of New York holds its Langston Hughes Festival and awards its Langston Hughes Medal to a highly distinguished writer of the African diaspora. With a mission to celebrate and expand upon the legacy of Harlem Renaissance icon and "poet laureate of Harlem" Langston Hughes, the Festival awarded its first medal, in 1978, to James Baldwin, followed by an honor roll of the greatest Black writers of our time -- among them Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and Rita Dove. This November, as the nation engages with the impact of 2020's presidential election and months of protest for racial justice since George Floyd's killing, the CCNY Black Studies Program awards the Langston Hughes Medal to author-as-activist Michael Eric Dyson, a major voice in the current conversation about race in America. Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Vanessa K. Valdés, Professor and Director of the CCNY Black Studies Program; Michael Eric Dyson Ph.D., author, academic, commentator, and 2020 Langston Hughes Medalist. Recorded: November 10, 2020

This episode features Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Black Studies Program at CCNY. The conversation is centered on women writers in the Americas and the influence of African spirituality on the construction of womanhood in their works; and Diasporic Blackness, her book about Arturo Alfonso Schomberg and his efforts to collect and preserve materials pertaining black history and culture in the United States and beyond. The discussion also focuses on CCNY's Black Studies Program and the Black Lives Matter Movement.  

 Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau   Guests: Vanessa K. Valdés, Director of the Black Studies Program and Associate Professor at City College;  Geoffrey Eaton, President of the NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch   Recorded: February 27, 2019