Art

“Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900”: The show looks back at a principal foundation for the emergence of abstract art. Synaesthesia is a condition in which one type of sensory stimulation evokes another. Hear a trumpet blast and you see crimson. Look at blue sky, and the taste of salt arrives on your tongue. Smell a skunk and feel a tingling in your feet. “Visual Music” considers the union of visual and aural senses. Curators Kerry Brougher and Judith K. Zilczer and MOCA’s Jeremy Strick divided the roughly 80 works into three chunks: abstract painting, avant-garde film and environmental installations.

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Ends Monday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave., L.A. (213) 621-2766.