Episode #80: Cursed Art: Saint-Gaudens's Adams Memorial, and "Black Aggie" (Season 9, Episode 4)

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ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

4.8 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In our ninth season, in a topic suggested by you, our listeners, we’re uncovering the backstory behind some of the world’s most famed “cursed” objects in art, architecture, and archaeology. Today, we’re continuing with a highlight of American Renaissance sculpture with an “unauthorized” copy that chills many visitors: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Adams Memorial, and the so-called “Black Aggie.” Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Twitter / Instagram Show your support for our show by purchasing ArtCurious swag from TeePublic! SPONSORS: BetterHelp: Listeners enjoy 10% off your first month of counseling The Zebra: Compare policies from every major provider insurance for free at the nation’s leading insurance comparison site for car and home insurance Ana Luisa Jewelry: Enjoy 15% off all pieces of sustainable and chic jewelry Woodstock Chimes: Use promo code “ARTCURIOUS” for a 15% discount on your order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.4	Please note that today's episode of Art Curious contains language discussing violence and suicide.
0:50.7	Listener discretion is advised.
0:53.5	One of the great things about working on Art
0:56.5	Curious is that I often get ideas from you, my listeners. You suggest topics for episodes
1:02.4	or even whole seasons, and also books to follow up Art Curious, the book version, of course.
1:08.6	And one topic that has reared its head multiple times over the past
1:11.8	few years is the idea of urban legends in art, of artworks rumored to be full of ill-will
1:18.6	toward their owners, haunted perhaps, or maybe cursed. I've been asked about the so-called
1:24.7	haunted eBay painting, officially titled The Hands Resist Him,
1:29.2	which is a 1970s painting by artist Bill Stoneham that is, to be sure, super creepy.
1:35.2	Then there's the so-called anguished man, a painting by an unknown artist in the UK with a searing,
1:41.5	screaming visage that is truly creepypasta come to life. But I also keep getting
1:47.0	asked about purportedly haunted sculpture and one funeral monument that always rises to the top of the
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