Past Exhibitions
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First Came a Friendship: Sidney B. Felsen and the Artists at Gemini G.E.L.
February 20, 2024–July 7, 2024
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Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928–1978)
August 29, 2023–January 7, 2024
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Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be
February 28–July 16, 2023
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Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat.
August 23, 2022–January 8, 2023
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Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy
February 22, 2022–July 10, 2022
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Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures(This exhibition was on view at Art + Practice, Los Angeles.) September 18, 2021–February 19, 2022)
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Fluxus Means Change: Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive
September 14, 2021–January 2, 2022
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Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics
December 3, 2019–March 13, 2020
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Bauhaus Beginnings
June 11–October 13, 2019
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MONUMENTality
December 4, 2018–April 21, 2019
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Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists
June 26–October 28, 2018
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Promote Tolerate Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary(This exhibition was on view at the Wende Museum, Culver City. May 20–August 26, 2018)
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Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions
February 6–May 6, 2018
(Traveled to Bern, Düsseldorf, and Rivoli 2018–2019) |
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Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us
This exhibition was on view at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. February 4–April 22, 2018
(Traveled to Bern, Düsseldorf, Rivoli, and New York City 2018–2019) |
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The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930
September 16, 2017–January 7, 2018
(Traveled to the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, July 28–November 5, 2018) |
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Berlin/Los Angeles: Space for Music
April 25–July 30, 2017
(Traveled to the Max Liebermann Haus in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2018–January 20, 2019) |
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Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space
March 28–July 30, 2017
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The Art of Alchemy
October 11, 2016–February 12, 2017
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road |
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The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals
October 13, 2015–March 13, 2016
(Traveled to the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit from December 16, 2016, to April 16, 2017) |
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A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660–1715
June 16–September 6, 2015
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World War I: War of Images, Images of War
November 18, 2014–April 19, 2015
(Traveled to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis in 2014, and to Musée Würth in France in 2016) |
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Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films
May 27–October 12, 2014
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SCRATCH
(This exhibition was on view at ESMoA, El Segundo. June 8–September 21, 2014)
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No Further West: The Story of Los Angeles Union Station
(This exhibition was on view at the Los Angeles Public Library, Central Library, May 2–August 10, 2014)
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Connecting Seas: A Visual History of Discoveries and Encounters
December 7, 2013–April 13, 2014
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In Focus: Ed Ruscha
April 9–September 29, 2013
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Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990
April 9–July 21, 2013
(Traveled to the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., October 20, 2013–March 10, 2014) |
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Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico
October 2, 2012–April 14, 2013
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A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed
(This exhibition was on view at Los Angeles Public Library, Central Library, September 8, 2011–February 23, 2013)
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The Getty Research Institute: Recent Print Acquisitions
April 7–September 2, 2012
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Pacific Standard Time: Kunst in Los Angeles, 1950–1980
(Building on the Getty's Pacific Standard Time exhibitions, this traveling exhibition was on view at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, March 15–June 10, 2012)
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Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950–1980
October 1–February 5, 2011
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Display & Art History: The Düsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue
May 31–August 21, 2011
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Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China
February 8–May 1, 2011
(Traveled to the Stavanger Art Museum in Norway, August 15–November 16, 2014) |
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Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology
November 16, 2010–March 27, 2011
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Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV
May 18–October 17, 2010
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Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
November 17, 2009–April 18, 2010
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Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
May 19–October 18, 2009
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Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917
November 18, 2008–April 19, 2009
(Traveled to the Block Museum at Northwestern University, September 23–December 11, 2011) |
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The Marvel and Measure of Peru: Three Centuries of Visual History, 1550–1880
July 8–October 19, 2008
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California Video
March 15–June 8, 2008
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
March 11–June 8, 2008
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China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
November 6, 2007–February 10, 2008
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Evidence of Movement
July 10–October 7, 2007
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Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950–1970
March 6–June 3, 2007
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A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists
August 1, 2006–January 7, 2007
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Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 19201938
February 21June 25, 2006
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Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis
October 11, 2005January 22, 2006
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The Artist Turns to the Book
May 24, 2005September 11, 2005
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Drawn to Rome: French Neoclassical Sketchbooks and Prints
February 1–April 24, 2005
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Past Presence: Objects of Study at the Getty Research Institute
October 26, 2004–January 2, 2005
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Sea Tails: A Video Collaboration
July 13–September 26, 2004
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The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market
March 16–June 13, 2004
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Comic Art: The Paris Salon in CaricatureNovember 18, 2003February 15, 2004
(Traveled to the Block Museum at Northwestern University, January 20–March 12, 2006) |
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Photographs of Artists by Alexander Liberman
July 22October 19, 2003
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Robert Motherwell: A la pintura (To Painting)
March 4June 22, 2003
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Landscapes of Myth
November 5, 2002February 2, 2003
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The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River
August 17September 29, 2002
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The Geometry of Seeing: Perspective and the Dawn of Virtual Space
April 16July 7, 2002
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Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour
December 21, 2001March 24, 2002
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Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
November 13, 2001February 3, 2002
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Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss: Sculpture PrototypesJune 6, 2001July 8, 2001 |
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Mexico: From Empire to Revolution
Part I, October 21, 2000January 21, 2001
Part II, February 24–May 20, 2001 |
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Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890–1937
February 20May 6, 2001
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Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese in RomeJune 17, 2000September 17, 2000 |
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The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals
February 26, 2000May 21, 2000
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The Shadow of Gradiva: A Last Excavation Campaign in the Collections of the Getty Center by Anne and Patrick Poirier
November 6, 1999January 30, 2000
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A Structure Revealed: Drawings of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange by Daniel Castor
March 20, 1999June 12, 1999
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Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky
November 21, 1998February 21, 1999
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Port and Corridor: Working Sites in Los AngelesPhotographs by Robbert Flick and Alan Sekula
August 15October 18, 1998
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Framing the Asian Shore: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Ottoman Empire
March 28, 1998June 28, 1998
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Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe
December 16, 1997March 1, 1998
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Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed
December 16, 1997February 22, 1998
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