5 APR 2024 · Today’s masterpiece: Agnes Pelton. The Primal Wing, 1933. Oil on canvas, 24 x 25 in. (60.96 x 63.5 cm). Gift of the artist, 1934.12. Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA.

1 MAR 2024 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: The Ka’ba in Mecca and The Tomb of the Prophet in Medina. Illustrations from a manuscript of the Dala’il al-khayrat (Guide to Good Deeds, a collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad). India, 17th century. Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper. Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, 1990.478 and 1990.478.1.

2 FEB 2024 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: Mexican painter (active Puebla, second half 1700s). The Trinity, ca. 1780. Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. (60.3 x 41.3 cm). Museum purchase with funds provided by the Latin American Arts Committee, 1977.121

5 JAN 2024 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598 – 1664). Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, 1658. Oil on canvas, 138.7 x 106.7 cm. Gift of Anne R., Amy and Irene Putnam, 1935.22

8 DEC 2023 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: Berenice Abbott, Metropolitan Life Building, New York, ca. 1935. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Cam and Wanda Garner, 2020.340. © Berenice Abbott/Getty Images, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

1 NOV 2023 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: Jules Tavernier (American, born France, 1844 – 1889). Kīlauea Caldera, Sandwich Islands (Hawaiʻi), 1886. Oil on canvas, 27 5/8 x 56 3/8 in. Museum purchase with funds provided by Kevin and Tamara Kinsella, 2002.35.

6 OCT 2023 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s Masterpiece: Hamid Rahmanian (Iranian, b. 1968), The Seventh Trial: Slaying of the White Div (2010). Color print on paper; 13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.25 cm). Purchased with funds provided by Patrons of the Arts of Iran and Persian Cultural Center, 2022.33.

1 SEP 2023 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: Leonora Carrington (Mexican, born Britain, 1917 - 2011), High Priestess, ca. 1973. Etching and aquatint on paper. Museum purchase with funds provided by Kevin and Tamara Kinsella, 2005.97.

27 JUL 2023 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: Georgia O’Keeffe. The White Flower (White Trumpet Flower), 1932. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Inez Grant Parker in memory of Earle W. Grant, 1971.12.

6 JUL 2023 · Masterpiece Minute Podcast – a mini podcast led by The San Diego Museum of Art curators spotlighting works of art from the Museum’s collection. Listeners are invited to tune in the first Friday of each month at 10 a.m. for their daily dose of art from #VirtualSDMA. Today’s masterpiece: Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982). Untitled, ca. 1969. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase with funds from the Bequest of Dr. Janet Brody Esser, 2023.48.