Essays |Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 Hammer Museum

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Love Letter #1, by Charles White, 1971

Now Dig This!

An Introduction

Flight Fantasy, by David Hammons, 1983

The Art of Creative Survival

Apparitional Visitations, by Suzanne Jackson, 1973

Defending Black Imagination

The "L.A. Rebellion" School of Black Filmmakers

Jacqueline Stewart

John Outterbridge in his Los Angeles studio with "No Time for Jivin',"1969, at right, 1970

Black Art in L.A.

Photographs by Robert A. Nakamura

Unknown, by Noah Purifoy, 1967

Find the Cave, Hold the Torch

Making Art Shows Since Walter Hopps

Franklin Sirmans

Without Your Interpretation, by Ulysses Jenkins, 1983

Los Angeles Snapshots

Eastside-Westside, from the Containment Series, by John Outterbridge, c.1970

Rebellion and Its Aftermath

Assemblage and Film in L.A. and London

Big Red, by Daniel LaRue Johnson, 1964

Figuring the Future in Los(t) Angeles