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Through June 4: “Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamen,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

* “C.O.L.A. 2000” and “Likeness: Some Recent Portrait Drawings by David Hockney” UCLA Hammer Museum.

Through June 10: “The Perfect Moment: An Exhibition of Works by Robert Mapplethorpe,” Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Through June 18: “Re-generations,” Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Through July 9: “Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey 1976-1999,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

Through July 16: “William Wegman,” Orange County Museum of Art.

* “Diamonds in the Rough: Japanese Americans in Baseball,” Japanese American National Museum.

Through July 23: “Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

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

Through Aug. 13: “Rear View Mirror: Automobile Images and American Identities,” UCR/California Museum of Photography.

* “Fernand Lungren: Sketches of the West,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Through Aug. 20: “Worlds of Profit and Delight: Popular Reading in Renaissance England,” Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

Through Sept. 3: “Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors From China’s Imperial Palace,” Bowers Museum of Cultural Art.

Through Sept. 4: “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego.

* “Picasso: Graphic Magician,” Norton Simon Museum.

Through Sept. 10: “Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island,” Museum of Latin American Art.

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

Through Sept. 24: “At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture,” MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary.

Through Oct. 1: “Main Event: The Ali/Foreman Extravaganza Through the Lens of Howard L. Bingham,” UCLA/Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Through Oct. 29: “Shifting Perceptions: Contemporary L.A. Visions,” Pacific Asia Museum.

Through Feb. 18, 2001: “More Than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community,” Japanese American National Museum.

May 27-Aug. 20: “Mastering the Medium: Woodcuts,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

May 28-Aug. 13: “Martin Johnson Heade,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

June 3-July 2: “Colored, Rocked Then Shocked, Recent Works by Sheila Batiste,” Watts Towers Arts Center.

June 3-Sept. 3: “Circles of Influence: Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California Art,” Orange County Museum of Art.

June 4-Aug. 13: “Susan Rankaitis: Drawn from Science” and “A Sense of Place: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Photographic Arts.

June 4-Aug. 20: “The Social Scene,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

June 4-Aug. 27: “Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

June 4-Sept. 3: “Gabriel Orozco,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

June 4-Sept. 10: “The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California,” California Center for the Arts Museum.

June 4-Sept. 17: “Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

June 6-Aug. 20: “German and Swiss Drawings from the Permanent Collection,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

June 10-Aug. 13: “Jean Lowe: The Evolutionary Cul-De-Sac,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/Downtown.

* “Camera Over Hollywood: The Photographs of John Swope,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

June 10-Oct. 8: “Nam June Paik: Video Art Pioneer,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

June 17-July 30: “RAMSES, A Portrait 1980-2000,” William Grant Still Arts Center.

June 17-Sept. 17: “Making a Prince’s Museum: Drawings for the Late Eighteenth Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese in Rome,” Getty Research Institute Exhibitions Gallery.

June 20-Oct. 8: “The Man in the Street: Eugene Atget in Paris” and “Tradition and Innovation: Recent Additions to the Photographs Collection,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

June 20-Aug. 19: “Mise en Scene: New L.A. Sculpture,” Santa Monica Museum of Art.

June 24-Jan. 2: “Santa Clara Portraits: A Proud Tradition,” Southwest Museum at LACMA West.

* “From Earth, Fire and Spirit: Historic Pueblo Pottery from the Southwest Museum,” Southwest Museum at LACMA West.

June 25-Sept. 3: “Robert Overby: Parallel, 1978-1969” and “Three New Hammer Projects: James Gobel, Siobhan Liddel and Cheonae Kim,” UCLA Hammer Museum.

June 25-Sept. 10: “The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

June 25-Sept. 17: “The Prinzhorn Collection: Traces Upon the ‘Wunderblock’,” UCLA Hammer Museum.

July 1-Sept. 24: “Al Belson: A Photographic Reverie,” Orange County Museum of Art/South Coast Plaza.

July 2-Aug. 27: “Bestiary,” Armory Center for the Arts.

July 2-Sept. 25: “Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

July 11-Sept. 3: “Religion and the Founding of the American Republic,” Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

July 11-Sept. 24: “Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Durer and Holbein,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

July 14-Sept. 24: “Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul,” San Diego Museum of Art.

July 16-Feb. 18: “Moche Fineline Painting of Ancient Peru,” UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

July 22-Dec. 31: “Margaret Keane and Keaneabilia,” Laguna Art Museum.

July 29-Oct. 15: “Correspondences: Isamu Noguchi and Ellsworth Kelly,” Orange County Museum of Art.

July 30-Oct. 1: “Mathematica . . . A World of Numbers and Beyond,” Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design.

Aug. 5-Sept. 24: “Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

Aug. 5-Feb. 11: “Chris Burden: A Tale of Two Cities,” Orange County Museum of Art.

Aug. 6-Nov. 5: “John Gutmann: Culture Shock” and “MEDI(t)Ations: Adrian Piper’s Videos, Installations, Performances, and Soundworks 1968-1992,” Museum of Contemporary Art.

Aug. 6-indefinitely: “Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1960-2000,” MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary.

Aug. 15-Nov. 5: “The Queen of Angels” and “The Making of a Medieval Book,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

Aug. 20-Oct. 15: “Robert Frank: The Americans” and “New York, New York,” Museum of Photographic Arts.

Aug. 23-March 4: “Twice-Taken Pictures: Ancestral Portraits by Darryl Sivad,” UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Aug. 27-Jan. 14: “Gifts of Love and Pride: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles,” UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Aug. 29-Oct. 22: “Peter Paul Rubens and the Art of Drawing in Flanders,” J. Paul Getty Museum.

Aug. 27-June 24, 2001: “Made in California: Now,” Boone Children’s Gallery, LACMAWest.

Sept. 3-indefinitely: “Selections From the Permanent Collection: 1945-1960,” MOCA.