I've seen some wonderful gem-like shows recently that I highly recommend. At SMMOA: Beatrice Wood: career-woman drawings, paintings, vessels and objects; tantra songs: contemporary tantric paintings from rajasthan. The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley 1945-1985 at the Huntington Library (that's a beautiful Karl Benjamin painting above a Maloof settee above, and some of Maloof's templates on the wall in bottom photo). more installation photos here); Cy Twombley Tribute at MOCA. Several shows are part of Pacific Standard Time, the Getty's initiative highlighting the post-World War II L.A. art scene.