Art

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Through June 2: “Central European Avant-Gardes.” Painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs and applied art objects by artists from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the former Yugoslavia. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through June 2: “Desire and Devotion.” Representations of gods, goddesses and human figures in sculpture, painting and ritual objects from the collection of John and Berthe Ford. Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Through June 2: “Spontaneous Combustion.” Long Beach Museum of Art. Collaboration with Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising featuring the work of graduating fashion and interior design students given the same fabric and specifications, but each is unaware of the other’s designs.

Through June 9: “Johan Grimonprez.” Installation simulating an airport lounge and a magazine titled “Inflight” dealing with various air disasters. Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Through June 9: “Lithium Legs and Apocalyptic Photons.” Work based on James Carter’s self-published books of mathematical formulae, diagrammatic illustrations, and computer animations exploring his alternative theory of the creation of the universe. Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Through June 15: “Moods of California.” Paintings by Percy Gray, Paul Grimm and Emil Kosa Jr. Irvine Museum.

Through June 15: “Democracy When?” Displayed artworks, projects and “Open Session Discussions” involving local activist groups. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

Through June 15: “Interface and DV Noir.” Juried exhibition of new work exploring art, science and technology. California Center for the Arts.

Through June 16: “Bijinga.” Paintings and prints of beautiful women from Japan’s Edo period (1600-1868). Pacific Asia Museum.

Through June 16: “And So It Went.” Work that changes over time and photographs documenting the changes. Armory Center for the Arts/Northwest.

Through June 21: Michael Sakamoto. Visual installation and performance works. 18th Street Arts Complex.

Through June 21: “Noumenal Twilight.” Group show featuring works influenced by the Doctor Chi film series produced in Germany, France and the U.S. between 1927 and 1967. 18th Street Arts Complex.

Through June 23: “A Passionate Collaboration.” Photography. Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Through June 23: Group Show. Ceramics, painting, sculpture, mixed media and video by Lynn Aldrich, Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Geoff Allen, Deborah Aschheim and others. Armory Center for the Arts.

Through June 23: “Railroad Vision.” Rare photographs from 1850s to the present examining the side-by-side progress of railroads and photography. Getty Center.

Through June 30: “Munakata Shiko (1903-1975).” Prints, calligraphies, paintings and ceramics by the much honored Japanese artist. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through June 30: “African Art.” Works from daily life, including furniture, utensils, musical instruments, a beaded chief’s robe and other objects. Mingei International Museum of Folk Art.

Through June 30: “Ten Shades of Green.” An exhibition of recent architecture that combines design quality and environmental sensitivity. Orange County Museum of Art.

Through June 30: “From Europe to the Golden State.” Work by Kasia Czerpak-Welinski, Margaret Handwerker, Michael Iofin and Pavel Vogler. Platt and Borstein Galleries, University of Judaism.

Through June 30: “C.O.L.A. 2002 Individual Artist Fellowships.” Work by Jo Ann Callis, Robbie Conal, Meg Cranston, Margaret Honda, Hilja Keading, Constance Mallinson, Frank Romero, Alexis Smith, Linda Stark, Daniel Wheeler, Frederick Fisher, Cameron McNall, Warren W. Wagner and Michael Worthington. Japanese American National Museum.

Through July 6: “Four Women of Influence.” Featuring work by Anna Hills, Donna Schuster, Marion Wachtel and Julia Wendt. Laguna Art Museum.

Through July 7: “The Chances of Andy Wing.” Mixed-media works by Wing from the last 43 years. Laguna Art Museum.

Through July 7: “California Holiday.” Paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture focusing on regional California art. Laguna Art Museum.

Through July 7: “Colin Campbell Cooper.” Impressionist paintings of New York scenes. Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Through July 7: “A Treasury of 15th-Century Manuscript Illumination.” Manuscript books, leaves and cuttings, including work by Jean Fouquet, Taddeo Crivelli and the workshop of Jan van Eyck. Getty Center.

Through July 7: “The Geometry of Seeing.” Illustrated treatises, drawings and prints by Leon Battista Alberti, Albrecht Durer, Sebastiano Serlio and others. Getty Center.

Through July 7: “The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam.” Paintings and drawings of the 17th century Dutch artist. Getty Center.

Through July 8: “To Do Battle.” Paintings, prints and sculpture from Eastern and Western cultures depicting war in all its forms, from ancient times to the present. Norton Simon Museum of Art.

Through July 14: “Fetish.” Variety of works by Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Bloom, Mary Kelly and others exploring the meaning of fetish in different cultures. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Through July 14: “Adi Nes.” Large-scale staged images inspired by mythology and art history. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/Downtown.

Through July 14: “Survival in Sarajevo.” Photography by Edward Serotta in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo. Skirball Cultural Center.

Through July 14: “Aaron Noble.” Paintings inspired by comic book imagery. UCLA Hammer Museum.

Through July 21: Jose Garcia Cordero. Paintings. Museum of Latin American Art.

Through July 28: “I-5 Resurfacing.” Painting, sculpture, installation and video art by more than 50 artists. San Diego Museum of Art.

Through July 28: “Japanese Fishermen’s Coats From Awaji Island.” Rare quilted coats worn by the fishermen of Japan’s Inland Sea. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Through July 28: “Tradition and Innovation.” Textiles produced in Japan since the 1980s. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Through July 28: “Trends.” European paintings and sculpture. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through Aug. 5: “Villains and Heroes.” Prints exploring the world of Japanese Kabuki theater by Katsukawa Shunsho, Ippitsusai Buncho, Kitao Shigemasa and Katsukawa Shunei. Norton Simon Museum of Art.

Through Aug. 11: “Trains, Balloons and Buggies.” Drawings by French caricaturist Honore Daumier exploring real and imagined vehicles. UCLA Hammer Museum.

Through Aug. 11: “Rome on the Grand Tour.” Paintings, pastels, drawings, sculptures, antiquities and prints offer an intimate look at an 18th century Grand Tour--a journey across Northern Europe to Italy from England. Getty Center.

Through Aug. 18: “New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3.” Featuring several works of German contemporary photography. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through Aug. 25: “Margaret Handwerker.” Tapestries incorporating biblical images. Skirball Cultural Center.

Through Sept. 8: Milton Avery. Paintings from the last two decades of the artist’s life. UCLA Hammer Museum.

Through Sept. 8: “Gerald Zugmann.” Photography of radical architecture, including Carlo Scarpa, Philip Johnson, Rudolph M. Schindler and others. Schindler House/MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

Through Sept. 8: “From Tavern to Tabernacle.” Tankards, flagons and decorative plates are among the 60 works featured. Long Beach Museum of Art.

Through Sept. 15: “Edward Hopper and Urban Realism.” Work exploring the American city by George Bellows, George Luks, John Sloan, Everett Shinn and Robert Henri. Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Through Sept. 22: “Zero to Infinity.” Survey of Italian sculpture of the late 1960s and ‘70s that embraced humble materials and found objects. MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary.

Through Sept. 22: William Morris. Stained glass windows, textiles, furniture, ceramics and illuminated manuscripts in the Craftsman style. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

Through Nov. 17: “Language.” Work by Lorna Simpson, John Baldessari, Edward Ruscha and others. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/Downtown.

Through Nov. 17: “Ways of the Rivers.” Large-scale masks, water spirit headdresses, warrior figures, puppets and ritual dress from sub-Saharan Africa. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Through Jan. 5: “A Century of Fashion, 1900-2000.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through Jan. 12: “Pikuni Blackfoot.” Artifacts, photography and historic documents on the Pikuni Blackfoot culture. Southwest Museum.

MAY

25-Aug. 18: “Andy Warhol Retrospective.” Extensive look at the artist’s work, including his Campbell’s Soup cans, Marilyn, Jackie, Chairman Mao, early drawings and other works. Museum of Contemporary Art.

26-Sept. 8: “2002 California Biennial.” Paintings, sculpture and mixed media works by California artists. Orange County Museum of Art.

28-Aug. 25: “Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age.” Drawings from the 1600s by Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael and Jan van Goyen. Getty Center.

29: “Mining Jewish History and Culture.” Lecture by Mark Rosenthal examining the work of the two artists. Skirball Cultural Center.

JUNE

1-Aug. 25: “Asia’s Woven Wonders.” Textiles and costumes from China, Japan, India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Pacific Asia Museum.

1-July 28: Hiro Yamagata Installation. Lasers, mirrored cubes and refractive holographic panels. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

1-July 28: “Ron Davis and Vasa.” Geometric art created with poured resin and Fiberglass. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

2-Sept. 15: “From House to Home.” Work by internationally renowned and emerging artists. MOCA at the Pacific Design Center.

2-Sept. 8: “Out of the Ordinary.” Drawings, models, plans, photographs and films. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

2: “Photographing the Scott Collection.” Photographers Erica and Harold Van Pelt discuss their work photographing Michael M. Scott’s collection. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art.

7-Sept. 2: “Traveling Light.” Exhibition drawn from the permanent collection and curated by the museum’s staff. Museum of Photographic Arts.

8-Nov. 10: “Humor as Art.” Paintings, sculptures and works on paper by James Swinnerton, Charles Schulz, David Gilhooly, William T. Wiley and others. Palm Springs Desert Museum.

9-Sept. 8: “H.C. Westermann.” Sculptures and selected drawings from the early 1950s to 1981. MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary.

9-Aug. 25: “The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz.” Photography from the 1890s to 1935 from the George Eastman House collections. Museum of Photographic Arts.

12-Sept. 8: “Let It Shine: Improvisation in African American Star Quilts.” Traditional quilts from the collection of Eli Leon. Craft and Folk Art Museum.

12-Jul. 7: “FACES (Folk Art As Community Expression): LAUSD Students, Games of Life.” Folk art created by students from throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District. Craft and Folk Art Museum.

15-April 6: “Icons for a New Era.” Modern abstract drawings and paintings created by Alexej Jawlensky between 1908 and 1938. Long Beach Museum of Art.

15-Sept. 22: “Pikuni Blackfoot Photographs of Walter McClintock.” Southwest Museum.

19-Sept. 15: “Show Me the Money.” Work by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Dowd using currency as the basis for two- and three-dimensional art. Palm Springs Desert Museum.

20-July 14: “Faces of Ground Zero.” Larger than life-size Polaroid portraits of firefighters, police officers, survivors and relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Skirball Cultural Center.

29-Aug. 18: “Simon Leung.” Four-channel video/sculptural installation of an opera by Leung and composer Michael Webster. Santa Monica Museum of Art.

30-Aug. 4: “The September 11 Photo Project.” Photography and text by people all over the country needing to express their feelings about the disaster. Armory Northwest.

JULY

6-Oct. 6: “Destined for Hollywood.” Paintings, drawings, prints and film visualizations used by Hollywood filmmakers to envision their movies. Orange County Museum of Art.

7-Sept. 15: “The Story Is in the Telling.” Narrative painting, sculpture, photography and film by Sandow Birk, Dennis Callwood, Ann Chamberlin, Margaret Garcia, Tony Gleaton, Alison Saar, Ben Sakoguchi and John Valadez. Armory Center for the Arts.

9-Sept. 29: “Gustave Le Gray, Photographer (1820-1884).” French photography from the 19th century, including architectural studies, portraits of the imperial family, landscapes and seascapes. Getty Center.

12-Aug. 30: “Simon Leung: Proposal for the Side of the Mountain” and Urs Fischer. Four-channel video/sculptural installation of an opera by Leung and composer Michael Webster; site-specific installation constructed using a diverse selection of materials, including trash. Santa Monica Museum.

14-Oct. 6: “Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682).” Paintings created for Spanish churches and religious houses during the 17th century. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

18-Sept. 22: “Milton Hirschl.” Wood engravings and pastels on paper. Skirball Cultural Center.

21-Oct. 6: “William Kentridge.” Short animated films on apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, along with drawings used in the films’ production. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through Oct. 13: “Songs of Praise.” Christian choir books from the 12th to 16th century Western Europe. Getty Center.

25-Oct. 6: “CAFAM Collection.” Masks, textiles, toys and figurative objects of Africa, Asia and North America taken from the museum’s permanent collection. Craft and Folk Art Museum.

25-Sept. 8: “Stories Untold.” Mixed media paintings using text, photography and quilt patterns by artist Andrea Kalinowski. Skirball Cultural Center.

28-Oct. 6: “Surf Culture.” Works by surfers and artists influenced by surfing, including Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston and Robert Irwin. Laguna Art Museum.

AUGUST

2-Nov. 4: “The Art Giving.” Recent gifts to the museum, including Asian masterpieces and works by Jacques Lipchitz, George Herms, Lyn Foulkes and June Wayne. Norton Simon Museum of Art.

3-Oct. 27: Jorge Marin. Sculptures, paintings and mixed media work. Museum of Latin American Art.

4-March 23: “Katsina/Kachina.” Hopi dolls from the 19th century along with paintings, sculptures, toys, clothing and other works recreating the Katsina imagery. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

4-Oct. 20: “Louis Faurer.” Street photographs taken between the 1930s and 1960s. Museum of Photographic Arts.

8-Oct. 10: Richard Godfrey Installation. Light and space installation. The Armory at One Colorado.

17-Sept. 29: “Danube Exodus.” Multimedia installation by Hungarian artist Peter Forgacs using film footage, maps and photo albums to create a stream of historical moments and personal memories of the Eastern European Jewish exodus along the Danube River. Getty Center.

31-Nov. 24: “California Art From the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.” Exhibit celebrating the museum’s 10th anniversary with a selection of art produced in California since the 1960s. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.