15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer

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• Oxy Arts presents 'National Museum of the Aftermath' from June 8 to August 8, curated by Jon Rubin and Harrison Kinnane Smith, conceived by Cauleen Smith.
• JOAN exhibits Ulises Carrión's 'a bookwork in many places' through August 9.
• ICA LA shows 'Semiotext(e): Desert Islands' through August 23, including Hedi El Kholti's 'Dream Machine'.
• Skirball Cultural Center presents 'Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86' through September 30.
• Getty Center's 'Lost. Found. Returned.' runs June 23 to October 18, featuring a drawing by Otto Greiner restituted to Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden.
• USC Pacific Asia Museum's 'Mythical Creatures: The Stories We Carry' runs through September 6, curated by Dave Young Kim.
• Hammer Museum's 'SPACE IS THE PLACE' runs through September 6, featuring 30 artists inspired by Sun Ra.
• Wende Museum's 'Mobile Churches in Ceaușescu's Bucharest' by Anton Roland Laub runs through October 11.
• California African-American Museum presents 'Willie Birch: Stories to Tell' through October 21, the artist's first retrospective.
• Claremont Lewis Museum of Art's 'Samella! Black as Lacquer and Iron' runs August 15 to November 15, curated by Francine Farr.
• UC Irvine Langson OCMA presents 'Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden' from June 26 to January 3, 2027.
• The Huntington's 'This Land Is…' runs June 14 to January 11, 2027, marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
• Long Beach Museum of Art Downtown shows Scott Carrillo Azevedo's 'The American Home—The Broken Promise' through August 9.
• Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles presents 'We're Very Well Read, It's Well Known' through September 6, curated by Mat Gleason with 474 artists.
• Getty Center's 'Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions' runs July 14 to October 18.