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Promoting Black Artists: “Round Midnight,” a mixed-media work by Los Angeles artist Lezley Saar, goes on view today at the California Afro-American Museum in Exposition Park. The 5-by-4-foot wall piece, which combines pages of books with painted images of black people, was commissioned by Seagram’s Gin as part of “Perspectives in African American Art,” a national program that supports the work of African American artists in cooperation with six museums across the country.