The Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces audiences to the life and work of Juan de Pareja, an artist who was an enslaved studio assistant of Diego Velasquez.
A new LACMA show takes on art in the computer age, the Tony Award nominations, and an influential artist L.A. collective grapples with copyright disputes in this week's newsletter.
The Met’s riveting new exhibition, Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter, is a curious amalgam. Although the show does present a selection of Pareja’s paintings, offering an overview of his little-known oeuvre for the first time, it is far from being a traditional, single-artist exhibition.