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Delving Into the Story of a Black Woman Waiting for a Bus in Postwar Los Angeles

Like the canvas itself, which has been hidden away for years in a private collection, the painted woman in Elsie Palmer Payne's "Bus Stop" is ready to be studied and re-evaluated.

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The Latin American History of Pop Art

Featuring works from artists in Latin America and its diasporas, Pop América intervenes in long-held conceptions of Pop Art’s geographic consolidations in the US and UK.

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Lessons Learned at the Feet of Frederick Douglass

Isaac Julien advances a layered, palimpsestic view of time, not as progress but as a series of lessons. This, then is a note of what I learned.

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Spiritualist Drawings that Open Portals to Other Dimensions

Often compared to the work of Hilma af Klint, dozens of rarely-seen drawings by the late Swiss healer and Spiritualist Emma Kunz are on view at the Serpentine Gallery.

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Fiona Shaw Will Perform T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land in Madison Square Park

April may be the cruelest month, but artist Arlene Shechet is sweetening our sullen sojourn into spring with a free, epic happening.

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The Legacy of Dan Robbins, the Man Who Taught Us to Paint by Numbers

When Dan Robbins passed away last week at the age of 93, many people paused to remember a man who made painting fun for the masses.

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The Lesser-Known History of Slavery in California

California Bound recounts a tumultuous history of mass migration, displacement, and litigation that led to the establishment of California’s earliest African American communities.

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Make Cyanotypes and Discover Local Talent at LA's Independent Art Book Fair

The Independent Art Book Fair, now in its second year, will be opening its doors in Downtown Los Angeles, not too far from Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair.

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Looking at Ways Art and Architecture Interact with the Atmosphere

Chad Elias looks at the ways in which the arts interact with "unpredictable meteorological conditions," turning away from attempts to manage or control natural forces.

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When It Comes to Female Artists, the MTA Has a Better Track Record than NY’s Top Museums

Curatorial leadership with a focus on site and audience develops an inclusive art program without using quotas.

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A Famous Anti-Slavery Speech Finds New Life in Brooklyn

“A Time for Seditious Speech” aims to show that speech can serve as a call to direct action, sometimes even violence.

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A Monumental Cloth That Tells a New Truth About the US Civil War

Contemporary artist Sonya Clark asks, “Who said monuments have to be steel?”