Exhibitions and Events
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Exhibitions
Current
How to Be a Guerilla Girl
November 18, 2025–April 12, 2026 How to Be a Guerrilla Girl presents the inner workings of the anonymous feminist art collective alongside a new commission at the Getty Research Institute. Drawing on the Guerrilla Girls' archive, the exhibition explores the steps the group took to create their eye-catching and humorous public interventions. The exhibition places the Guerrilla Girls' well-known posters in the broader context of their data research, protest actions, culture jamming, and distribution methods. Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls' 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in the art world. | ||||||
Future
Stendahl's World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles
June 23, 2026–October 18, 2026 Around 1940, after decades of selling landscapes and Modernist works, Earl Stendahl turned to Mexican antiquities, transforming the market for pre-Hispanic art in Los Angeles and beyond. Stendahl Art Galleries promoted the ancient artifacts of Mexico as commodities for both museum and private collections, launching exhibitions across the United States and Europe and building on Hollywood connections for product placement in advertising campaigns. Meanwhile, archaeological sites in Mexico suffered irreparable depredations. | ||||||
Lost. Found. Returned.
June 23–October 18, 2026 In 1894 the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden acquired a drawing by Otto Greiner (1869–1916), a leading German artist associated with the Symbolist movement. How did that drawing, which the museum marked as "lost" after World War II, end up at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles? This exhibition narrates the drawing's journey, focusing on its shifting wartime status, the tools that researchers use to track down missing artworks, and the impending return of Greiner's drawing back to Dresden. | ||||||
Paul R. Williams: Architecture Across the Color Line
December 16, 2026–March 15, 2027 Groundbreaking architect Paul R. Williams charted an unprecedented career. The first Black architect licensed in the western US, Williams was a prolific, transformative figure, but his role constructing for and with Black communities across the color line has been little accounted for. Marking the public debut of his archive, this exhibition examines the impact of Williams's architecture in challenging systems and structures of racialized exclusion, offering an intimate portrait of life, hope, and possibility coursing through the collective construction of the architecture of Black Los Angeles. It attests to architecture's capacity to give rise to community, to construct social opportunities, and to shape to Black spatial imaginaries—legacies that extend to this day. Paul R. Williams: Architecture Across the Color Line will be presented alongside shows at LACMA and USC Fisher Museum of Art, marking the first major museum retrospectives dedicated to this influential figure. | ||||||
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Backstage: An Unfurling of the JPC | Black Photography & Visual Culture May 21, 2026 | ||||||
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