Bonus episode: Love Among the Ruins




The Object show

Summary: When the young Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani moves to Paris, in the early 1900s, he soon meets a very talented (and very married) Russian poet. What happens when art and love come together, as the rest of the world is falling apart? You can see one of Modigliani’s iconic Head sculptures here, from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1502/head-amedeo-modigliani (Spoiler alert) You can see a close-up of the secret fossil discussed on the show here: https://new.artsmia.org/stories/art-secrets-the-starfish-in-her-face/