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The Way I See It

The Way I See It: Bryan Stevenson on Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

Bryan Stevenson on Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series

Bryan Stevenson on Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

BBC Radio 3 - The Way I See It, Bryan Stevenson on Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

30 of the world's sharpest minds choose a work from MoMA's collection. How do they see it?

Radio 3 presents a radiophonic art exhibition, as 30 of the world’s most creative minds choose their favourite work from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ep 17 Bryan Stevenson

Art critic Alastair Sooke, in the company of some of the leading creatives of our age, continues his deep dive into the stunning works in the Museum of Modern Art's collection, whilst exploring what it really means “to see” art. 

Today's edition features the choice of American lawyer and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson.  He has chosen The Migration Series, a set of paintings by African-American painter Jacob Lawrence.  Depicting the migration of African Americans to the northern United States from the South that began in the 1910s, this a moving piece for Bryan Stevenson - but what does a civil rights lawyer see in the work that others might not?

Producer: Tom Alban.

Main Image: Jacob Lawrence, And the migrants kept coming, 1940-41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm). Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy. Museum of Modern Art, NY, 28.1942.30. © 2019 Jacob Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Leading creative thinkers choose an artwork from MoMA and talk about how it inspires them.

Leading creative thinkers choose an artwork from the Museum of Modern Art, and talk about how it inspires or provokes, thrills or surprises them. Presented by Alastair Sooke.

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