Episode 59: "Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions" at the Morgan Library

Tarot on the Road is back! This week, the Tarot Podcast heads out to the Morgan Library in New York City for their “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” show. The exhibit is dazzling to look at, but it also gives you a sense of how tarot morphed and shifted in form over the centuries.

In my conversation with the three organizers responsible for the exhibit, you’ll see how the rich, thoughtful narrative they organized around tarot captures the imagination and closely follows the trajectory of tarot from a luxury object made an artisanal workshop in 15th century Italy to becoming a contemporary global phenomenon.

If you just can’t possibly make it New York, you can see many of the featured images both in the video version of this podcast and in the Morgan’s own incredible exhibit catalogue, which is lavishly illustrated and full of fascinating essays on the cultural history of tarot (yes! you do need one more book!).

Links for this episode:

• Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions exhibit at the Morgan Library
• Exhibit catalogue 
• Patreon bonus content: Morgan Library conservator Frank Trujillo takes us through some of the intricacies of what conservation experts have been able to learn about the composition of the 500-year-old cards at the heart of the show.

More tarot history episodes:

• Episode 56: Tarot Museum Belgium with Guido Gillabel
• Episode 48: What is the Tarot de Marseille? with Sherryl Smith 

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