Exhibitions in Los Angeles

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.

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.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

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

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Four decades of Reiko Sudō's innovative textiles for NUNO, merging tradition with experimentation and handicraft with technology. Resnick Pavilion.

Petersen Automotive Museum

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

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Public debut of the archive of Paul R. Williams, the first Black architect licensed in the western US, and his work for and with Black Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Two kitchens from LACMA's collection in conversation: Schütte-Lihotzky's 1926–30 Frankfurt kitchen and Perriand and Le Corbusier's 1948–50 Marseille kitchen. Resnick Pavilion.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Models, drawings, films and objects from sinks to TV sets trace how the American home of tomorrow was imagined and sold, and who was left out. Resnick Pavilion.

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Reunites Wright of Derby's 1760s candlelit pictures, including Getty's rediscovered Two Boys with a Bladder, and explores the technique behind them.

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Portraits by Gainsborough, Goya and David centred on the US debut of Reynolds's Portrait of Mai, the first Polynesian visitor to Great Britain.

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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 Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Viewing stones, paintings and rare books tracing a millennium of collecting remarkable rocks in China, Japan and the US, in the Chinese Garden's Studio for Lodging the Mind.

Petersen Automotive Museum

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

The BroadFree

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

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyFree

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Sculpture, jewellery, vessels, gems and coins show how female rulers of the first millennium BCE were portrayed, and how those images have been reinterpreted since.

Craft Contemporary

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

Craft Contemporary

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

Craft Contemporary

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

Fowler Museum at UCLAFree

Contemporary Whakatōhea weavers respond to an ancestral kaitaka (cloak) from the Fowler's collection, bringing ancient and modern Māori art into dialogue.

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)

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

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.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Photographer, filmmaker and Pikes Peak racer Jeff Zwart's four-decade life with Porsche, told through his images, films and historic cars in The Vault.

Fowler Museum at UCLAFree

Three South Asian artists (Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, Swapnaa Tamhane) use textiles as counter-monuments memorializing overlooked communities.

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.

Petersen Automotive Museum

LA artist Joshua Vides hand-paints black outlines onto real cars in a mechanic's garage scene, flattening them into what looks like a 2D sketch.

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.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Family-friendly look at how filmmakers create movie zombies, set in a playful pretend cemetery with an interactive animatronic puppet by Spectral Motion.

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 MuseumFree

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.

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

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 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

Tongva artist Mercedes Dorame's commissioned installation on Southern California's freshwater springs: photographs, painting, sculpture, ceramics and a Tongva-poetry soundscape.

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.