Exhibitions and Events
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Exhibitions
Current
Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
September 10, 2024–February 23, 2025 This exhibition tells the story of a mid-20th century collaboration between artists and engineers to form This exhibition showcases the mid-20th century collaboration between avant-garde artists and the engineers who created the information age. Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a non-profit organization, integrated theater, multi-sensory environments, and groundbreaking technology. Their pioneering efforts to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration extended beyond the art world into social issues such as housing and environmental sustainability. |
Upcoming
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
April 8, 2025–May 11, 2025 FUTURE This pop-up reading room surveys a global history of photobooks by women photographers from the Getty Library. As part of an international series showcasing the 10×10 Photobooks' catalog What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women 1843–1999, it offers an inclusive revision and remapping of the photobook canon. It is complemented by notable photobooks by Southern California women artists after 2000. |
Off-Site
Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey
September 17, 2024–June 15, 2025 USC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM 46 NORTH LOS ROBLES AVENUE, PASADENA, CA 91101 For several decades, artist Cai Guo-Qiang has used gunpowder and pyrotechnics to create drawings, paintings, and explosion events. Based on years of research by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Research Institute, A Material Odyssey will explore the nature and properties of gunpowder and chronicle its use by the artist. |
Online
Sculpting Harmony
ONLINE ONLY Drawn from the extensive Frank O. Gehry Papers at the Getty Research institute, this digital exhibition features more than 150 models, sketches, and archival photographs documenting the development of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. |
Events
In-person and Online event
Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide December 15, 2024 |