Sumptuous swimming pools; AfriCOBRA’s black power art
Design and Architecture · KCRW
August 6, 201930m 2s
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Show Notes
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summer in Southern California means swimming pools, and those glittering havens from the heat are celebrated in the new book “Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool,” a collaboration between photographer Tim Street-Porter and his wife, the designer and writer Annie Kelly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983” at The Broad.</span></p>