“What’s a Fourth Panel and why should I care?”

A ‘fourth panel’ is a way to transcend an art form. Traditionally, a painting is a square piece of canvas with colored paint.  But if you are very clever, like Titus Kaphar and Ken Gonzales in their painting “Beyond the Myth of Benevolence,” you can add a physical as well as an historical dimension. This is their painting in the National Art Gallery which shows Thomas Jefferson on a curtain and behind him, Sally Hemmings, the black slave who was Jefferson’s ‘mistress.’

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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