What began as a survey of West Coast art since 1960 has become, in the hands of curator Ralph Rugoff, “The Scene of the Crime.” Premised on Henri Michaux’s notion that the artist is “the one who, with all his might, resists the fundamental drive not to leave traces,” the exhibition asks visitors to play detective, criminal, victim, and bystander. Bringing together a planned seventy-five works by a slated thirty-six California-based artists, from John Divola’s ’70s Forced Entry Site photographs to Uta Barth’s recent “Blow up” series, “Scene of the Crime” is accompanied by a catalogue including essays by Anthony Vidler and Peter Wollen. June 5-Sept. 7

— Ernest Pascucci