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Shapes, Places, and Faces: New Acquisitions 2025 from August 22 - October 25, 2026
Promotional sign with orange typography for exhibition titled "Wires Crossed" on display from February 2, 2024 through May 5, 2024. The background picture depicts a man on a skateboard in a full pipe.
February 2, 2024—May 5, 2024

Wires Crossed: The Culture of Skateboarding, 1995-2012

n his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the Long Beach Museum of Art presents Ed Templeton’s 17-year photographic project, Wires Crossed: The Culture of Skateboarding, 1995-2012, which explores youth culture through Templeton’s lens and peers into the lives of amateur and professional skateboarders, whom he traveled the globe with while skateboarding for video productions, competitions, and demonstrations.
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