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Through Sept. 26: “Common Threads: Pueblo and Navajo Textiles in the Southwest Museum,” Southwest Museum at LACMA West.

Through Sept. 30: “A Winding River: Journey of Contemporary Art in Vietnam,” Bowers Museum of Cultural Art.

Through Oct. 10: “Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York” and “Light and Darkness: The Photographs of Hill and Adamson,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

Through Oct. 10: “At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996” and “Barbara Spring,” Laguna Art Museum.

Through Oct. 18: “Latinos in Hollywood Photographic Exhibition,” Skirball Cultural Center.

Through Oct. 31: “Pros & Proteges: Los Angeles Artists and the Youth They Mentor,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

Through Oct. 31: “Ken Karagozian: A Decade of Portraiture,” Junior Arts Center Gallery.

Through Nov. 21: “Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Paintings From Otsu,” Pacific Asia Museum.

Through Nov. 14: “In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

Through November: “Niki de Saint Phalle’s Noah’s Ark Sculptures,” Skirball Cultural Center.

Through Jan. 2: “Recycled, Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap,” UCLA/Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Through Jan. 23: “William Pajaud: The Sights and Sounds of My New Orleans,” California African-American Museum.

Through July 30: “Ancient Trails: Connecting the Gran Chichimeca,” Southwest Museum.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 22-Jan. 2: “Secret Victorians,” “Oscar Wilde,” “Tania Mouraud: Wall Painting” and “Kara Walker,” UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.

Sept. 23-Nov. 27: “Pierre Huyghe: Cinema Installations” and “Marie-Ange Guilleminot: Watch Project and Transformation Parlor,” Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Sept. 24-Jan. 16: “Art of the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay,” Museum of Latin American Art.

Sept. 24-2000: “Re-Visiting Manzanar: Selections From the Permanent Collection,” Japanese American National Museum.

Sept. 25-Jan. 2: “Back to the Ranch: Photographs of the Diminishing East Bay Cattle Industry, Black and White Photographs by Matt O’Brien,” UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography.

Sept. 25-Nov. 28: “Dating Surveillance Project, Video Installation and Black and White Photographs by Laurie Long,” UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography.

Sept. 25-Jan. 9: “The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Sept. 25-Nov. 7: “Homage to Teshigahara: Joanne Julian,” Pacific Asia Museum Contemporary Gallery.

Sept. 25-March 5: “Reflections of the Kiowa School: Works of Art on Paper by Woody Big Bow, David Williams and Jim Tartsah,” Southwest Museum.

Sept. 25-Jan. 2: “Star Wars: The Magic of Myth,” San Diego Museum of Art.

Sept. 26-Jan. 2: “Raymond Pettibon,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

Sept. 26-Oct. 31: “Birth and ReBirth,” William Grant Still Arts Center.

Sept. 28-Sept. 10, 2000: “Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade 1848-1858,” the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

Sept. 30-Jan. 2: “The Art of Twentieth Century Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Masters,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

OCTOBER

Oct. 2-May 31: “Wide Open Spaces: Landscapes From the Permanent Collection,” Long Beach Museum of Art.

Oct. 2-Dec. 5: “Just Furniture Pieces,” Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Oct. 3-March 26: “Muffler Men, Mun~ecos and Other Welded Wonders,” UCLA/Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Oct. 10-Jan. 2: “Lee Krasner” and “Gestures: Postwar American and European Abstraction From the Permanent Collection,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Oct. 12-Jan. 9: “Adriaen de Vries, Imperial Sculptor,” J. Paul Getty Museum. Also: “Art and Science: Joris Hoefnagel and the Representation of Nature in the Renaissance,” through Jan. 16.

Oct. 16-June 11: “Rhythms of the Soul: African Instruments in the Diaspora,” California African-American Museum.

Oct. 16-Jan. 23: “In the City: Urban Views 1900-1940, Selections From the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Orange County Museum of Art.

Oct. 17-Dec. 19: “Anna Castelli Ferrieri: Architecture and Design,” Art Center College of Design.

Oct. 17-Feb. 13: “Barbara Kruger,” the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Oct. 17-Jan. 9: “Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Oct. 17-Jan. 23: “The Experimental Exercise of Freedom: Lygia Clark, Gego, Mathias Goeritz, Helio, Oiticica and Mira Schendel,” the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Oct. 21-Jan. 2: “Dancing in the Streets,” Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Oct. 23-Nov. 1: “Dia de los Muertos: A Tribute (Cenotaphs) to the 20th Century Latin American Artist,” Museum of Latin American Art.

Oct. 23-Jan. 16: “Points of Departure: Drawings From the Permanent Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art.

Oct. 24-Jan. 9: “Dale Chihuly: The George R. Stroemple Collection,” California Center for the Arts Museum.

Oct. 24-Jan. 16: “Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Oct. 24-Jan. 30: “Bertrand Lavier: Walt Disney Productions,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego/Downtown.

Oct. 24-June 19: “Music for the Eyes: The Fine Art of African Musical Instruments,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Oct. 24-Nov. 29: “L.A. Assemblage Group,” Watts Towers Arts Center.

Oct. 26-Jan. 2: “Martin Puryear: Commission for the Getty Center,” J. Paul Getty Museum. Also, “William Eggleston and the Color Tradition,” through Jan. 30.

Oct. 29-Jan. 9: “Shamans, Gods and Mythic Beasts,” Bowers Museum of Cultural Art.

Oct. 30-Jan. 9: “Pacific Arcadia: Images of California, 1600-1915” and “Picturing Paradise: San Diego in the Eye of the Artist, 1875-1940,” San Diego Museum of Art.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 3-Dec. 31: “Pros and Proteges: Los Angeles Artists and the Youth They Mentor,” Armory Center for the Arts.

Nov. 9-Jan. 15: “An American Diary: Paintings by Roger Shimomura,” Japanese American National Museum.

Nov. 9-Nov. 24: “Bernard Maisner: Contemporary Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

Nov. 6-Jan. 30: “The Shadow of Gradiva: Last Excavation Campaign Through the Collections of the Getty Research Institute, by Anne and Patrick Poirier,” Getty Research Institute Exhibitions Gallery.

Nov. 6-Jan. 16: “California Contemporary Craft,” Laguna Art Museum.

Nov. 6-Jan. 31: “Copy Work: The Dictionary Pages and Other Diversions by Gilles Barbier,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Also “Ancient Gold Jewelry From the Dallas Museum of Art,” through Jan. 30.

Nov. 7-July 16: “Music in the Life of Africa,” UCLA/Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Nov. 7-Dec. 5: “Native Americans: The Red Black Connection,” William Grant Still Arts Center.

Nov. 12-Feb. 6: “Visual Voices of Mexico,” Museum of Latin American Art.

Nov. 27-Jan. 16: “Du Xuesong,” Pacific Asia Museum Contemporary Gallery.

Nov. 6-Dec. 31: “Crayola: Dream-Makers Millennium Traveler Exhibition,” Orange County Museum of Art/South Coast Plaza.

DECEMBER

Dec. 3-Feb. 6: “Talavera Contemporanea: Ceramics From the Collection of Uriarte, Puebla, Mexico,” Museum of Latin American Art.

Dec. 4-Feb. 13: “Toujours Paris: Photographs of Paris From the Permanent Collection” and “The Jefferson Suite: Installation by Carrie Mae Weems,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Dec. 12-March 6: “The Panza Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

Dec. 12-Jan. 22: “A Piece @ a Time,” Watts Towers Art Center.

Dec. 14-Feb. 27: “The Body Beautiful: Artists Draw the Nude, 1440-1850,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

Dec. 15-April 16: “Cultural Portraits of India,” Pacific Asia Museum.

Dec. 17-Feb. 27: “Kerry James Marshall: Mementos,” Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Dec. 18-Feb. 27: “Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland 1572-1764,” San Diego Museum of Art.

Dec. 19-Jan. 23: “Black Doll Exhibit,” William Grant Still Arts Center.

Dec. 22-May 6: “Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast,” Southwest Museum at LACMA West.