Join curator Arpad Kovacs to discover the work of five photographers who helped expand traditional representations of Chicano/a communities in Los Angeles in the latter 20th century.
Curator's Tour: Every Minute is History
Tour
Lotería de Muertos (detail), 1983; printed 1993, Ricardo Valverde. Hand-colored gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. © Esperanza Valverde and Christopher Jude Valverde
About
Times
Select Tuesdays
Sep 15, Nov 24, and Dec 15, 2026
3pm
Speaker Bios
Arpad Kovacs
Associate Curator
Arpad’s exhibitions have focused on 20th-century and contemporary photography, with a specific interest in conceptual practices and time-based media. A graduate of Queen's University and York University, Arpad arrived at the Getty Museum's Department of Photographs in 2011. He organized the monographic exhibitions Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Tense (2014), Werner Herzog: Hearsay of the Soul (2014), and Richard Learoyd: In the Studio (2016). His thematic shows include In Focus: Play (2014), In Focus: Animalia (2015), Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media (2016), Mapping Space: Recent Acquisitions in Focus (2019), Encore: Reenactment in Contemporary Photography (2019), and In Focus: Platinum Photographs (2020).
Know Before You Go
Capacity
20
First-come, first-served
Duration
45 minutes
How to join
Confirm which tours are running on the day of your visit at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
Join your tour a few minutes before its scheduled start time at the Information Desk, where our Visitor Services colleagues will direct you to the guide leading the tour. Groups are provided with Assistive Listening Devices (ALD), which amplify the guide's voice in busy galleries.
What to expect
Our guides lead interactive tours that are different each time. While they share their unique perspective and knowledge about the collections and exhibitions, we encourage you to make the tour your own by sharing observations and asking questions. We want to hear what you think!
This tour is predominantly indoors, with brief moments outside. There are a few specific stops for active engagement with individual artworks. Although benches are available in many galleries, seating may or may not be available depending on the route chosen by your guide.
Accessibility
Wheelchairs are available for free rental on a first-come, first-served basis at the Lower Tram Station above the parking structure and at the Coat Check Room in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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