To inaugurate the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Contemporary Projects series, associate curator of twentieth-century art Lynn Zelevansky is assembling works in various media by seven artists—Stan Douglas, Jim Hodges, Elizabeth Peyton, Guillermo Kuitca, Jack Pierson, Sharon Lockhart, and Rachel Whiteread. Among the highlights of “Longing and Memory”: Whiteread’s rarely seen drawings rendered in Wite-Out correction fluid. LACMA’s new series will present intimate, curated exhibitions to bring together international and Los Angeles-based artists. How refreshing that someone has remembered that smaller is sometimes better. June 5-Sept. 7

— Bruce Hainley