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"Two Schools Of Cool" exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in California

NEWPORT BEACH, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) presents a unique exhibition titled Two Schools of Cool. OCMA’s history is rooted in Los Angeles art and artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Two Schools of Cool reexamines a group of these artists, pairing elder statesmen of cool with artists from a new generation that mostly emerged in Los Angeles beginning in 2000. The exhibition provides the two generations with space to explore, experiment, and provoke through collaborative projects. The exhibition is a lab that espouses similarities between the generations as well as changes and shifts in the art world over the last four decades, including the increasing prominence of female artists, distinct methodologies, and the use of new technologies. The culminating exhibition presents five