Exhibitions in Los Angeles

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

First major museum retrospective on Los Angeles ceramic artist Doyle Lane (1923-2002).

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Photographs by Laura Aguilar made 1984-1992 documenting Dia de los Muertos celebrations in Los Angeles, drawn from her estate.

Norton Simon Museum

Manet's ambitious, near-life-sized painting of the 1867 firing-squad execution of Emperor Maximilian, on loan from the National Gallery, London.

Petersen Automotive Museum

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

Getty Center · Free

Traces the four hand-crafted stages of a medieval book—preparing parchment, writing, painting and binding—through manuscripts from the Museum's collection.

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.

The Broad · Free

Collection show on how media shapes history and memory, with Guadalupe Rosales, Hank Willis Thomas, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Warhol and Mickalene Thomas.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Screen-used vehicles and production prototypes marking 25 years of the Fast & Furious franchise's most iconic builds.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County · Free

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

Petersen Automotive Museum

Marking the 100th anniversary of the Daimler-Benz merger with a broad range of Mercedes-Benz models spanning the marque's engineering history.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Life-size orca replicas and Indigenous Pacific Northwest Coast art explore the bond between orcas, people, and the ocean.

Chinese American Museum

The museum's inaugural show in its newly expanded gallery: seven decades of Diana Shuiu Wong's abstract works blending traditional Chinese and contemporary Western aesthetics.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Sandy Rodriguez's largest installation to date, including a 20-foot map of the United States painted on hand-processed amate-fiber paper.

Craft Contemporary

Colombian artist's first LA solo show, juxtaposing colonial bronze casting with Indigenous weaving to examine the conquest of the Americas.

Craft Contemporary

Indigenous artist collective's residency 'Fuego Medicinal' on fire, natural dyes, textiles and California native-plant craft traditions.

Craft Contemporary

Nine artists from the California Community Foundation Fellowship use fire as a lens on cultural perseverance, identity and ancestral memory.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

A two-story immersive installation exploring six aesthetic themes of cinematic light and color -- sunrise/sunset, moon, neon, candlelight, fireworks, and campfire -- via synchronized projections and an original score.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

Immersive environments by Julian Charrière on water systems and planetary fragility, including a new commission for the inaugural Schmidt Environment and Art Prize.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

A new commission by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña: a collaborative 'quipu of encounters' on the water crisis, linking communities in Chile and Los Angeles.

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

Immersive exhibition on horror cinemas cultural impact, with props and costumes from Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and more, across six themed chambers.

Petersen Automotive Museum

A chronological timeline of record-setting automobiles from the postwar era to today, tracing how aerodynamics and powertrain design chased raw speed.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

Japanese American artists, photographers and designers whose lives were upended by wartime incarceration, and the postwar work that followed.

Wende Museum · Free

Co-curated with a NASA historian, this show pairs Cold War-era and contemporary artworks with artifacts like a full-scale Sputnik-1 model on the Space Race and cosmos in art.

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

Explores the design dialogue between American automakers and Italian coachbuilders, pairing American mechanical strength with European styling.

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 Center · Free

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.