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New Museum In California’s City Of Compton
Installation view of Anthony Lee Pittman: Sons Like Me (photo Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic)
New Museum In California’s City Of Compton.
Anthony Lee Pittman, “Sons Like Me” (2023), Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 20 inches x 30 inches (image courtesy the artist)
Marquell Byrd and Abigail Lopez-Byrd, co-founders of the Compton Museum of Art & History (image courtesy Compton Museum of Art & History)
The new space at 306 West Compton Boulevard is an outgrowth of Color Compton, a community-based arts organization that offers programs in photography, painting, printmaking, film, and music. One of the center’s popular programs is on archiving. “Particularly with Compton, we don’t have spaces where young folks can learn about them,” Lopez-Byrd says.