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Central Avenue and Beyond The Color Explosion

Exhibition Explores African American Renaissance in Los Angeles

Co-curators Sue Hodson and Avery Clayton discuss highlights of their new exhibition, “Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles.” Play...

 

Now Open - The Color Explosion

"The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection" features more than 200 advertising posters, product labels, art prints, and other works.  More...

Drawn to Satire

 Clarence Muse (Oct. 14, 1889 – Oct. 13, 1979) was an actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first African American to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years, and appeared in more than 150 movies. Religious Transformations

Drawn to Satire Now Open

Raucous behavior and silly plot twists take center stage in “Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock."  More...
 

Lecture, Clarence Muse: Central Avenue & Beyond

Nov. 12 - Scholar Renita Lorden discusses how actor Clarence Muse ignited Hollywood’s golden age. More...

Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

Nov. 6–7: Scholars convene to discuss issues of religion in North and South America from 1500 to 1800. More...
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