Top 10 most fascinating museum exhibitions of 2009

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<I>By Christopher Knight, Times Art Critic</I><br>
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In no particular order, these are the 10 most fascinating museum exhibitions I saw this year:<br>
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<b>Roger Kuntz </b>(1926-75) was not a major artist, but his fusion of traditional American Scene painting with Pop-inflected L.A. freeway imagery got wide notice in the early 1960s. The Laguna Art Museum's "<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/04/roger-kuntz-laguna-art-museum.html">Roger Kuntz: The Shadow Between Representation and Abstraction</a>," the first full-scale retrospective of this artist, put those unusual paintings in revealing context.

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By Christopher Knight, Times Art Critic

In no particular order, these are the 10 most fascinating museum exhibitions I saw this year:

Roger Kuntz (1926-75) was not a major artist, but his fusion of traditional American Scene painting with Pop-inflected L.A. freeway imagery got wide notice in the early 1960s. The Laguna Art Museum's "Roger Kuntz: The Shadow Between Representation and Abstraction," the first full-scale retrospective of this artist, put those unusual paintings in revealing context.

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