Fifteen months after the ouster of Hal Nelson, its director of 17 years, the Long Beach Museum of Art finally has a new executive director.

Long Beach has few areas comparable with, say, Laguna Beach, where you can genuinely fantasize about the plein air masters sitting down to preserve scenes of crisp, fall mornings in oil paint on canvas.
Bluff Park Historic District, where scores of Craftsman-era homes and the similarly-designed Museum of Art co-exist, is one of those places: hazy [...]