Current exhibits in LA range from contemporary art of the American West to 19th century English landscape, and a fabulous costume design exhibit of this year’s Academy Award-winning designs is now on display at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Downtown.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: A landmark exhibition of large landscape paintings by English painter, John Constable (1776-1837), will include six of his masterpieces. For the first time, the paintings will be paired with their full-size oil sketches. Because of the monumental effort involved in gathering the works from numerous lenders, it’s unlikely “Constable’s Great Landscapes: The Six-foot Paintings” will ever be repeated. The show will be open to the public from Feb. 3 to April 29. www.huntington.org

Autry National Center: The annual “Masters of the American West fine Art Exhibition and Sale” will be on view between Feb. 3 and March 4. Artists included in the exhibition are picked a year in advance. This year, 72 nationally renowned contemporary Western artists will have works on display. On Feb. 3, there will be a chuck wagon lunch and auction. www.autrynationalcenter.org

The California Science Center: “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” opens on Feb. 11. This exhibit, sure to thrill the whole family, will include numerous artifacts from the Star Wars movies; including costumes, props and a never-before-seen life-size replica of the cockpit from Episode IV’s Millennium Falcon spaceship. www.californiasciencecenter.org

The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM): FIDM presents its 15th annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibition. The show will present costumes from the 2006 Academy Award® winner for Best Costume, “Memoirs of a Geisha.” Admission is free. The exhibit will be on display from Jan. 29 through April 5. www.fidm.com

The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM): From Jan. 21 through April 15, CAFAM will present an exhibit of ritual art objects and symbols used in the curing of disease. Tribal cultures from around the world will be represented. The exhibit aims to demonstrate universal patterns of belief related to healing. www.cafam.org