Sumptuous swimming pools; AfriCOBRAs black power art

Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 8:30 p.m.

Summer in Southern California means swimming pools, and those glittering havens from the heat are celebrated in the new book \u201cSplash: The Art of the Swimming Pool,\u201d a collaboration between photographer Tim Street-Porter and his wife, the designer and writer Annie Kelly.\xa0

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Plus, we meet two artists from AfriCOBRA, a Chicago-based collective formed in the late 1960s that made art to empower black communities. Their work is part of the blockbuster show \u201cSoul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983\u201d at The Broad.