L A Louver Gallery

An extraordinary exhibition of more than 60 empty picture frames at Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery provides a concise and detailed survey of American frame design from 1820 to 1920. Organized by frame restorers and dealers Tracy Gill and Simeon Lagodich, this beautifully installed show traces a nation's changing tastes and aspirations.

Like a mad-cap alphabet gone out of control, Don Suggs' compendium of black-and-white photo-based works chases after its referents and almost always ends up somewhere else. His nearly playful cataloguing of random symbols and arbitrary images seems to have traded the bitter sense of futility that governed his dry, unengaging paintings from four years ago for a more bemused, ironic appreciation of the vicissitudes of representation. In 1989, also at L.A.