Summer Entertainment Preview 2010

TIME's critics give you a guided tour of the coming season's new music, movies, books and television, from Futurama to Lollapalooza, Pixar to Xtina

John Baldessari: Pure Beauty

John Baldessari

"Three Red Paintings," 1988

(c) 2009 John Baldessari

Opens June 27

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosts a career retrospective of the West Coast king of conceptual art. For 40 years — working with altered media images, videos, photography, paint and a deadpan wit — Baldessari has teased out the enigmas of how we see and think. One of his paintings from the 1960s consists simply of the words pure beauty in black letters on a white background. And somehow, it is.

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