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Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
September 10, 2024–February 23, 2025
OPENING SOON

This exhibition tells the story of a mid-20th century collaboration between artists and engineers to form This exhibition showcases the mid-20th century collaboration between avant-garde artists and the engineers who created the information age. Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a non-profit organization, integrated theater, multi-sensory environments, and groundbreaking technology. Their pioneering efforts to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration extended beyond the art world into social issues such as housing and environmental sustainability.

Image: Robert Breer's Floats outside the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion (detail), 1970. Chromogenic process. Photograph: Shunk-Kender. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, 2014.R.20. © Robert Breer/Kate Flax/gb agency, Paris

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
April 8, 2025–May 11, 2025
FUTURE

This pop-up reading room surveys a global history of photobooks by women photographers from the Getty Library. As part of an international series showcasing the 10×10 Photobooks' catalog What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women 1843–1999, it offers an inclusive revision and remapping of the photobook canon. It is complemented by notable photobooks by Southern California women artists after 2000.

Image: Cover of What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 (detail), ed. Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, 10×10 Photobooks (New York: 2021). Courtesy 10×10 Photobooks

Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey
September 17, 2024–June 15, 2025
USC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM
46 NORTH LOS ROBLES AVENUE, PASADENA, CA 91101

For several decades, artist Cai Guo-Qiang has used gunpowder and pyrotechnics to create drawings, paintings, and explosion events. Based on years of research by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Research Institute, A Material Odyssey will explore the nature and properties of gunpowder and chronicle its use by the artist.

Ignition of gunpowder to create White Tone, Brookhaven, New York, April 8, 2016 (detail). Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio

Sculpting Harmony
ONLINE ONLY

Drawn from the extensive Frank O. Gehry Papers at the Getty Research institute, this digital exhibition features more than 150 models, sketches, and archival photographs documenting the development of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2003, Frank Gehry and Circa Editions. Mixed-media screenprint, 40.6 x 45.7 cm (sheet). Getty Research Institute, 2009.PR.3. © Frank O. Gehry

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