Reinventing the Américas: Construct, Erase, Repeat
TRAVELING TO MUSEO AMPARO
Apr 5, 2025–Jul 14, 2025

This exhibition analyzes representations of the Americas, questioning the mythologies and utopian visions that proliferated after the arrival of Europeans to the continent. Featuring artistic interventions by Denilson Baniwa, an Indigenous contemporary artist from the Amazon region of Brazil, and the voices of local community groups in Los Angeles, Reinventing the Américas counters the views of European chroniclers, illustrators, and printmakers from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries by offering a multi-perspectival approach.

The Celebration of the Lizard (detail), Spirit Animals (detail), 2022, Denilson Baniwa. Digital intervention on Columnam à Praefecto prima navigatione locatam venerantur Floridenses (Column in Honor of the First Voyage to Florida) (detail), from Jacques de Morgues Le Moyne (French, ca. 1522–before 1588), Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americæ provincia Gallis acciderunt (Frankfurt, 1591), pl. 8, Getty Research Institute, 87-B24110. Courtesy the artist. Design © 2022 J. Paul Getty Trust

Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
TRAVELING TO LUMA ARLES
May 1, 2025–Jan 11, 2026

This exhibition tells the story of a mid-20th century collaboration between artists and engineers to form the group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.'s events integrated art, theater, multi-sensory environments, and groundbreaking technology. The group's pioneering efforts to facilitate communication and collaboration pushed its programs beyond the art world, laying the path for new technological innovations.

Robert Breer's Floats outside the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion (detail), 1970. Chromogenic process. Photograph: Shunk-Kender. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, 2014.R.20. © Robert Breer/Kate Flax/gb agency, Paris

Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures
TRAVELING TO THE CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
Jun 7, 2025–Jul 27, 2025

This exhibition sheds new light on the pivotal work of African American choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings (American, 1944–2015). Through a unique movement vocabulary that she called "moving pictures," Cummings made dance that combined the visual imagery of photography and the kinetic energy of movement to explore the emotional details of daily rituals, as well as the intimacy of black home life. The exhibition draws largely from Cummings' personal video archive of rarely seen works.

Blondell Cummings. Gelatin silver print. Photo © Beatriz Schiller 2021. Getty Research Institute, 2014.M.6. Courtesy the Estate of Blondell Cummings