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Detail, Useful Art #5: The Western Motel, Portland Art Museum — This collaboratively-created work brings the darkly psychological space of Americana into the gallery.

Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful ...

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Faith Ringgold's Dancing at the Louvre

Learn more about this painted quilt