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  Laguna Art Museum's 'Best Kept Secret' Shows What Zot Wrought

  By DAVE BARTON | Thu, January 12, 2012

  Documenting the furious creativity of the early years of UC Irvine's School of Fine Arts, curator Grace Kook-Anderson's revelatory exhibition "Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971" celebra... More >

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  'Conversation With…The Legacy Project'

  By | Thu, December 29, 2011

  As part of the First Thursdays Laguna Art Walk, the art community's museum raises the creative bar with their "Conversation With..." series. Guest artists give insightful, informal lectures on any number of topics—this week, photographers Mark Cha... More >

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  Isamu Noguchi's Rock, Paper, Hipsters

  By DAVE BARTON | Thu, August 04, 2011

  To get an idea of the uncomfortable relationship between artistic vision and the requisite cash needed to fulfill that vision, one needs only look as far as Laguna Art Museum's current exhibition, "Noguchi: California Legacy." It begins with a se... More >

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  OC Art Galleries Will Feature Japan, Shag and More!

  By STACY DAVIES | Thu, June 23, 2011

  Summer's here, it's a holiday, school is out, now it's time to play—and even if you don't know the lyrics to that famous Annette Funicello Bikini Beach theme song, you can still head down to the shores and various inland-y parts to check out the s... More >

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  'Extract': Developing Exhibitions Inspired by the Collection

  By | Thu, March 24, 2011

  For those looking for a crash course in the museum's 90-plus years of California art, "Extract" features several small, one-person shows from the permanent collection. Featured artists include Florence Arnold, Elanor Colburn, George Brandriff, Lad... More >

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  ocweeklybestof

  | Fri, January 07, 2011

  This is one of the most eclectic exhibit venues in Southern California, and its shows are almost always worth a visit. Recently, it has presented career retrospectives of underrated Pop artist Wayne Thiebaud, loco local boy Shag and hippie-graphics great Rick Griffin. But the just-concluded exhibit "In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor" went to a whole new level. The show offered a sprawling showcase for Lowbrow art, championed in the pages of Robert Williams' Juxtapoz magazine. Featuring approximately 150 of the movement's most celebrated artists—everybody from Mark Ryden to Elizabeth McGrath to Williams himself—it was an exhibit that'll be written about in textbooks decades from now, when today's wild, kooky art-world outsiders have become the establishment for a new generation of angry loners to rail against.

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