Art

Through June 17: “From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight: Painting in Eighteenth-Century France From the Musee de Picardie, Amiens,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Through June 24: “Private Passions: Outstanding Collections in Los Angeles,” Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Through July 1: “Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace,” a traveling show at the Art Center College of Design, traces the history of artists’ use of technological methods for their creative purposes.

Through July 22: “Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting, The Eastman House Collection,” Museum of Photographic Arts.

* “Julian Stanczak: Pioneer of Op Art 50 Year Retrospective,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University.

Through July 29: “Henri Matisse: Works on Paper From the Grunwald Center” and “Around the Parisian Table: Pleasure and Politics of Food,” UCLA Hammer Museum.

Through Aug. 5: ‘L’Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through Aug. 12: “Guillermo Trujillo: 10 Years of Painting 1990-2000,” Museum of Latin American Art.

* “Stephen Willard: California Desert Photography,” Palm Springs Desert Museum.

Through Aug. 26: “James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

* “Illuminating Color,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

* “The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through Sept. 3: “Skeet McAuley: The Garden of Golf,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Through Sept. 9: “Imps on a Bridge: Wedgwood Fairyland and Other Lustres,” Long Beach Museum of Art.

Through Sept. 16: “Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience,” Japanese American National Museum.

Through January 2002: “From Earth, Fire and Spirit: Historic Pueblo Pottery From the Southwest Museum,” Southwest Museum.

Friday-July 8: “The Book Show, Raymond Pettibon,” more than 100 booklets and 60 drawings, Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Friday-June 16: “C.O.L.A. 2001,” Milken and Hurd Galleries, Skirball Cultural Center.

Saturday-Aug. 12: “High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Cabarets of Montmartre, Japanese Woodblock Prints and the Floating World of Edo,” a special three-part graphic art exhibition organized by the San Diego Museum of Art, highlights three significant moments in popular art and features the largest survey of psychedelic rock posters organized in 25 years.

Saturday-Aug. 19: “American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age,” a collection of uniquely American objects, including glass, furniture, ceramics, textiles, posters and other works from the John C. Waddell Collection and the 20th Century Design Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, opens at the Orange County Museum of Art.

* “Hair in African Art and Culture,” California African American Museum.

June 3-Sept 2: “Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles,” a survey of new art in L.A. at the UCLA Hammer Museum, showcases the work of 25 L.A.-based artists who are breaking new ground in their specific medium.

* “Paintings, Prints and Drawings by Hokusai,” Pacific Asia Museum.

June 3-Sept. 30: “The Nature of the Beast: Portrayals of Animals in Japanese Painting,” Pacific Asia Museum.

June 3-Sept. 16: “Jesse Bransford,” UCLA Hammer Museum.

June 6-July 18: “Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss: Sculpture Prototypes,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

June 9-Sept. 23: “Poetic Natures: A California Spirit,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

June 10-Sept. 3: “Sharon Lockhart,” a traveling show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, features large-scale photographs, which often suggest movie-inspired narratives.

June 10-Sept. 9: “Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s,” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, looks at the relationship between Homer’s painting and critical ideas of nationalism in the decade following the Civil War.

June 14-Sept. 16: “The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs and Western Spaces,” focusing on the way panoramic photographs have documented the trans-Mississippi West from the 1840s to the present, opens at the Boone Gallery, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

June 16-Dec. 9: “Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California,” at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, portrays the stories of Chicano civil rights and political action through more than 100 graphic images, mostly silkscreen prints, by 56 artists.

June 17-Aug. 12: “Kenneth Tyler: Thirty Years of Printmaking” and “Recent Acquisitions: Selections From the Permanent Collection,” California Center for the Arts Museum.

June 30-Aug. 26: “Grandma Moses in the 21st Century,” a major retrospective exhibition of paintings by the popular folk artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses, opens at the San Diego Museum of Art.

June 30-Nov. 4: “Dine: The People; Life and Culture of the Navajo,” Palm Springs Desert Museum.

July 1-Sept. 25: “Torolab: Laboratorio of the Future in the Present,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/Downtown.

July 4-Oct. 7: “The House of the Gospel,” UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

July 7-Sept. 16: “Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art,” an in-depth look at the paintings and sculptures of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, two quintessential Western American artists, at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art.

July 7-Sept. 30: “Continuity and Change: Southern California’s Evolving Landscape,” Orange County Museum of Art.

July 8-Sept. 30: “Connie Imboden: Beauty of Darkness,” Museum of Photographic Arts.

July 10-Sept. 16: “Walker Evans & Company: Works From the Museum of Modern Art,” at the J. Paul Getty Museum, examines the impact the photographer has had on photography, painting, sculpture and graphic art over the past 80 years.

July 10-Oct. 28: “The American Tradition & Walker Evans: Photographs From the Getty Collection,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

July 14-Oct. 14: “Every Picture a Story: American Illustration From the Delaware Art Museum,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

July 19-Oct. 22: “The Chromatic Eye: New York Paintings and Prints from the 1960s,” Norton Simon Museum.

July 22-Sept. 23: “The Theater Posters of James McMullan,” Art Center College of Design.

July 22-Oct. 21: “David Hockney Photoworks,” a traveling exhibition finishing its run at the Museum of Contemporary Art, looks at the role that photography has played in Hockney’s art over the last 30 years.

July 23-Oct. 13: “Illuminated Books of Hours,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

July 26-Nov. 4: “Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler From the Collection of Steven Block,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

July 27 to Sept. 2: “Gentle Interventions, Liga Pang and Ingeborg Luscher,” Santa Monica Museum of Art.

July 29-Nov. 4: “Asylum in the Library: The Method, Madness and Magic of Aby M. Warburg,” UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

July 29-Oct. 7: “Laurie Brown: Recent Terrains,” “Anthony Hernandez: Pictures for Oakland” and “Warren Neidich: The Camp O.J. Installation,” Laguna Art Museum.

July 29-Oct 21: “Philipp Scholz Rittermann: Navigating by Light,” Museum of Photographic Arts.

July 31-Oct. 14: “Work and Play: Everyday Life in Drawings, 1520-1820,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

Aug. 2-Oct. 7: “The Traditional Art of Wine Making and Related Artifacts,” Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Aug. 2-Dec. 3: “The Art of Play: Games and Amusements,” Norton Simon Museum.

Aug. 5-Oct. 28: “Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Aug. 10-Nov. 11: “Public Projects 1: Kenneth Capps,” California Center for the Arts Museum.

Aug. 25-Nov. 25: “Destined for Hollywood: The Art of Dan Sayre Groesbeck,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Sept. 2-22: “Milton Glaser,” Santa Monica Museum of Art.