California dreaming

While from the outside the Department of Justice building on I Street looks like the kind of foreboding architectural monstrosity, let’s call it “American Fascist Gothic,” so beloved by a certain political party, inside it’s a different story. Currently on display there through the end of the month are 45 black-and-white photographic images by Gene Kennedy, who resides in Lincoln. Gene Kennedy: A Retrospective—California Photographs 1969-1999 delivers what the show title promises: pictures from around California, some urban, some rural, some taken at the Gladding, McBean pottery plant in Lincoln, the largest producer of architectural terra cotta in the country. The exhibit runs through August 31; the DOJ building, located at 1300 I St., is open business hours Mondays through Fridays.