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This Long Beach Art Gallery Survived a Drunk Driver. But The Next Threat Could Mean Its End.

A drunk driver crashed into Open Gallery in Long Beach on February 24, 2024, destroying the space and nearly killing a family. Owners Liz Garibaldi and Artos Saucedo spent a year renovating and recovering, reopening the gift shop in April 2025 and rescheduling programming. However, the building owner now plans to sell, threatening the gallery's future. The space, founded in 2019 as a live-work screen printing hub, has grown into a multi-unit gallery supporting musicians and visual artists. Its current exhibition, "Physical Memory," curated by Matthew “NORDY” Nordman, is the gallery's first photography show.

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SmithDavidson Gallery has partnered with London-based Unit gallery to present “Tjukurrpa: The Dreaming,” an exhibition timed to the Tate Modern survey of Emily Kam Kngwarray (1910–1996). The show, on view through August 17, 2025, highlights Kngwarray's work alongside pieces by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Makinti Napanangka, and Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford. Founders David Smith and Gabriëlle Davidson, who have collected Australian First Nations art since 2006, describe how their gallery transformed from a focus on 19th-century European and Impressionist art to a dedicated program for Modern and Contemporary Australian Indigenous art, with ethical standards that benefit artists' communities.

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