The latest exhibit at Pepperdine University’s Weisman Gallery opens with a reception Saturday. “The Epic and the Exotic: 19th-century Academic Realism from the Dahesh Museum” features 32 paintings from artists whose work was a product of the great art academies of the 19th century. Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s “Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae” (above) will show at the exhibit. Photo courtesy of the Weisman Museum