Lots of new things opening – a few highlights:
New exhibitions at the Huntington include “The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection”, “Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles”, “Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock”, and continuing “British Watercolors of the Eastern Mediterranean”.
At LACMA, new exhibits include “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape”, “Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics”, “Luis Melendez; Master of Spanish Still Life”, and “From Spoon to the City: Objects from Architects from LACMA’s Collection”
And closer to home at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, recently opened exhibits include “Noble Tombs at Mawangdui”, “Diana Thater: Butterflies and Other People”, and “California Calling, Part II”.