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“Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s ‘Nevermade’” offers a sharp retrospective of an artist who explores the way social erasure of identity — race, gender, class — operates in American life.

Beginning around 2002, Gonzales-Day began to alter largely forgotten old photographs that document the mob ruthlessness of lynching, an astounding brutality that helped shape the history of the American West.

The USC Fisher Museum of Art is too small to accommodate a full Gonzales-Day retrospective, but it’s still worth seeing. Its focus on the shredding of civil society is timely.

One day in 1953, the young and not yet widely known artist Robert Rauschenberg, just 26, knocked on the studio door of Wi

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