Show and Tell: Yoko Ono Archive

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A woman in all black sits in a spare all-white bedroom where all the furniture is cut in half down the middle

Yoko Ono in Half-a-Room, 1967, installed at Half-A-Wind Show at Lisson Gallery, London, 1967. © Yoko Ono. Photo by and © Clay Perry

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2026

12–4pm

Getty Center

Research Institute

Free

Tickets are free, but required for event entrance. Your event ticket will also serve as your Center entrance reservation. Please note, there is a fee for parking. Additionally, your event ticket includes free access to Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at The Broad in Downtown LA.

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About

Celebrate the exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, on view at The Broad through October 11, with a special guided viewing of works by Yoko Ono from the Getty Research Institute's collections. Through rare materials—including her influential book of instructions Grapefruit—exhibition curator Sarah Loyer will explore the artist's groundbreaking experimental practice and its enduring influence on generations of artists. Discover how Ono's work has redefined the possibilities of art through performance, participation, conceptual practice, feminism, and a lifelong commitment to peace.

The celebration continues with drop-in art-making stations inspired by Ono’s artist books in the Getty collection.

About The Broad

Founded in 2015 on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the museum offers free general admission and presents an active program of special exhibitions and innovative live events, all within a landmark building designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The Broad is home to the Broad collection, one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art, which continues to grow as new artists and artworks are added. The museum is the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library, which has been loaning collection works to museums around the world since 1984. An expansion of the museum will open in 2028, before the summer Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles, creating even greater public access and new ways to experience the Broad collection. For news and updates, sign up for email newsletters at thebroad.org or follow The Broad on Instagram, Threads, Facebook, TikTok, or YouTube.

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Speaker Bios

  1. Sarah Loyer

    Curator and Exhibitions Manager, The Broad

    Sarah Loyer curated The Broad’s presentation of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind (2026). Loyer co-curated Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature (2024), organized the public reforestation project Social Forest: Oaks of Tovaangar (2024), and curated exhibitions Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody (2023) and This Is Not America’s Flag (2022). She was host curator for Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me (2025) and Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 (2019), for which she received a Curatorial Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators.

  2. Glenn Phillips

    Chief Curator, Getty Research Institute

    Glenn Phillips is a specialist in the history of curating and the international history of conceptual art, with a focus on video and performance art in Europe and the Americas. His curatorial projects, often organized collaboratively, include Lumen: The Art and Science of Light, 800-1600 (2024); Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be (2023); Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures (2021); Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions (2018-19); Artists and Their Books (2018); Video Art in Latin America (2017); Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films (2014) and It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles, 1969-73 (2011-12).

  3. Zanna Gilbert, PhD

    Sr. Research Specialist

    Zanna Gilbert is co-lead of the Latin American and Latinx Art History Initiative (LALAI). She is co-curator of Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s and How to Be a Guerrilla Girl (Getty Research Institute, 2025–6). She is co-editor of the recent publication Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City (2025).

Know Before You Go

Duration

Material viewing: 30 minutes
Art making: Available from 12–4pm on a drop-in basis

Planning your arrival

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Event check-in

Meet in the Getty Research Institute lobby.

Seating

Unless otherwise noted, all seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. We recommend arriving early to guarantee a seat. Unclaimed tickets may be released 15 minutes prior to the event.

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.

Assisted listening devices are available for this event. Please request one from our Visitor Services associates when you check in.

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