Exhibitions and Events
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Exhibitions
Current
How to Be a Guerilla Girl
November 18, 2025–April 12, 2026 How to Be a Guerrilla Girl presents the inner workings of the anonymous feminist art collective alongside a new commission at the Getty Research Institute. Drawing on the Guerrilla Girls' archive, the exhibition explores the steps the group took to create their eye-catching and humorous public interventions. The exhibition places the Guerrilla Girls' well-known posters in the broader context of their data research, protest actions, culture jamming, and distribution methods. Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls' 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in the art world. | ||||||
Future
Stendahl's World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles
June 23, 2026–October 18, 2026 Around 1940, after decades of selling landscapes and Modernist works, Earl Stendahl turned to Mexican antiquities, transforming the market for pre-Hispanic art in Los Angeles and beyond. Stendahl Art Galleries promoted the ancient artifacts of Mexico as commodities for both museum and private collections, launching exhibitions across the United States and Europe and building on Hollywood connections for product placement in advertising campaigns. Meanwhile, archaeological sites in Mexico suffered irreparable depredations. | ||||||
Lost. Found. Returned.
June 23–October 18, 2026 In 1894 the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden acquired a drawing by Otto Greiner (1869–1916), a leading German artist associated with the Symbolist movement. How did that drawing, which the museum marked as "lost" after World War II, end up at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles? This exhibition narrates the drawing's journey, focusing on its shifting wartime status, the tools that researchers use to track down missing artworks, and the impending return of Greiner's drawing back to Dresden. | ||||||
Off-Site
Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s
CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, RIVERSIDE September 13, 2025–February 15, 2026 This exhibition surveys artworks made and exchanged by Latinx and Latin American women artists from the 1960s to the present. As a mode of artistic production that relied on the postal service for the circulation and exchange of artworks, Mail Art allowed artists in repressive societies to evade strict censorship measures, providing platforms for circulating their work and for political protest. Latinx and Latin American women artists have used the postal system to transgress a varied set of restrictive systems, ranging from gender expectations to authoritarian regimes. This exhibition is supported by the GRI Council. | ||||||
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Online only
Transgresoras: Artists Giana De Dier and Marilyn Boror Bor with Elena Shtromberg Jan 27, 2026 | ||||||
In-person event
Designing the Desert and Other Landscapes: The Architecture of Paul R. Williams Feb 14, 2026 | ||||||
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