May 2025
May 2025 at a glance: 2 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 8 more were on view across the city.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.