Exhibitions in Los Angeles

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Celebrates Studio Ghiblis 2008 film Ponyo through over 100 rare hand-drawn animation artworks, including original art by Hayao Miyazaki, many shown in North America for the first time.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Twelve benches by the L.A. sign painter line the Kendall Concourse, drawing on rotulismo mexicano, the tradition of Mexican hand-painted signage.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)Past

More than 150 works from Asia, Europe and the Americas explore block printing, the world's oldest way of making multiple images. Resnick Pavilion; closes 13 Sept.

Fowler Museum at UCLAFreePast

Traces African art objects from their origins through colonial acquisition and European markets into the Fowler's collection, layering the stories within each piece.

Autry Museum of the American WestPast

Cochiti Pueblo artist Virgil Ortiz reimagines the 1680 Pueblo Revolt as speculative fiction, with futuristic characters and installations fusing Indigenous resistance history with sci-fi aesthetics.

Wende MuseumFreePast

A scaled recreation of a modernist Cuban house built 1957-1963, exploring memory, displacement, and the gap between reality and dream during the Cold War.

Academy Museum of Motion PicturesPast

The work of production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer, and the impact of their craft on a film's look.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical GardensPast

Yearlong exhibition of site-specific installations by British artist Edmund de Waal across the Huntington Art Gallery, Chinese Garden, and Japanese Garden.

Getty VillaFreePast

Striking stone portraits of court officials and priests from Egypt's 26th Dynasty (664-526 BCE), on long-term loan from the British Museum.

Getty CenterFree

A calibrated array of prisms casts shifting bands of spectral light across the Museum rotunda, tracking the sun's changing arc through the seasons; commissioned for PST ART.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

A year-long artwork for your mobile browser: 96 plastic sandals and shoes collected from beaches worldwide, photoscanned into gaussian splats.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Marking 250 years of the United States with American-made vehicles spanning early 1900s classics to modern hypercars.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

LACMA's own Impressionist holdings set among the prints, photography, decorative arts and fashion of late-19th-century France. Resnick Pavilion.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Screenwriting as an art form, through scenes from Double Indemnity, The Long Goodbye and Pulp Fiction and how each reworks film noir conventions.

Petersen Automotive Museum

A case study in off-road motorsport: champion rally, desert, dirt-track and motocross machines, each once the pinnacle of engineering in its discipline.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Over 112 years of Aston Martin excellence, from racing heritage to modern hypercars, including the DB5 of James Bond fame.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Nearly 200 rare early American motorcycles from Professor Richard Bunch's collection, spanning the pioneer era through the Great Depression.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyFree

Rare, spectacular mineral and crystal specimens, some displayed publicly for the first time.

Autry Museum of the American West

Works from the Autry's Native American collections explore Knowing, Creating and Transference, curated in part by three contemporary Plains Indian artists reflecting on their traditions.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Over 100 objects from the Oscar-winning director's films, including storyboards, concept art, creature models, props and on-set photographs.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Betye Saar's Huntington-commissioned site-specific installation: a 17-foot vintage wooden canoe with found objects including birdcages and antlers.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Traces Waymo's evolution from Google's self-driving car project to a leading autonomous vehicle company, showing the tech turning sci-fi into reality.

California Science CenterFree

17,000-sq-ft exhibition with 25+ interactive activities exploring the science of sports and movement, featuring LA-based mentor athletes; on view through the 2028 Olympics.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Outdoor sculpture in the Stroll Garden of charred Sierra Nevada timber and glazed ceramic teardrops, on forest destruction and regrowth.