Dec. 22-29

Works by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Ed Ruscha, Millard Sheets, Llyn Folkes and other artists are featured in “California Landscape into Abstraction: Works from the Orange County Museum of Art,” which explores how the state’s landscape has been depicted by both naturalist painters and modern artists, and how that evolution has affected California art. Dec. 15 through March 9 at the Orange County Museum of Art, 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach. 949-759-1122, ocma.net