Exhibitions and Events
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Exhibitions
Current
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
April 8, 2025–May 11, 2025
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. | ||||||
Future
$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives
June 10, 2025–September 28, 2025 $3 Bill celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ+ artists in the last century. From pioneers who explored sexual and gender identity in the first half of the 20th century, through the liberation movements and the horrors of the HIV/AIDS epidemics, to today's more inclusive and expansive understanding of gender, $3 Bill presents a journey of resilience, pride, and beauty. | ||||||
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. | ||||||
Off-Site
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. | ||||||
Online
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. | ||||||
Events
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Resonant Exchange: Meditation with a Tree | Earth Day with Aroussiak Gabrielian Apr 26, 2025 | ||||||
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Envisioning Feminist Alternatives: Stories from the Women's Health Movement May 18, 2025 | ||||||
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