Event Series Summer at Getty

Spend your long summer days at the Getty Center with special programming and exhibitions

  • Annually, May – September
  • Getty Center
A bird's-eye view of a band on stage playing an outdoor concert for a crowd.

About

With our extended hours, now you can enjoy your long summer days at the Getty Center with concerts, events, hands-on activities, and new exhibitions.

On Now

  1. Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions

    Exhibition

    Skeletons against a black background.

    Explore the strange and fantastical world of French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon

    Jul 14–Oct 18, 2026 Getty Center

  2. Lost. Found. Returned.

    Exhibition

    Graphic design featuring a green banner on the left partially obscuring a drawing of a man leaning on a wall and looking off into the distance

    The story of how a drawing by Otto Greiner disappeared from Dresden during World War II and re-emerged in Los Angeles decades later

    Jun 23, 2026–Oct 18, 2026 Getty Center

  3. Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles

    Exhibition

    Sepia photo of a man with white hair behind a table filled with Mesoamerican statuettes

    How in the mid-20th century Earl Stendahl transformed the market for pre-Hispanic art and Mexican antiquities

    Jun 23, 2026–Oct 18, 2026 Getty Center

Upcoming

  1. The Making of a Medieval Manuscript

    Exhibition

    Manuscript illumination of a haloed figure sitting at a stand with writing implements in hand.

    See how illuminated manuscripts were written, decorated, and bound entirely by hand in pre-modern Europe

    Aug 4, 2026–Mar 14, 2027 Getty Center

  2. Off the 405: Laurel Halo

    Performance

    Portrait of a person with shoulder length red hair staring into the camera against a geometric gray ceiling.

    Musician Laurel Halo's shares her sounds of techno, ambient music, and musique concrète in this Off the 405 concert at the Getty Center

    Saturday, Aug 22, 2026

News & Stories

  1. “Off the 405” Summer Concerts Return to the Getty Center Beginning May 2026

    Artists performing in the series include aja monet, Hunx and His Punx, Leenalchi, Horse Lords and Laurel Halo

  2. Celebrate Mother’s Day with Getty

    Enjoy special tours, an exclusive brunch and drink menu, and shop unique and art-inspired gifts for mom at the Getty Center and online

Past

  1. Off the 405: Horse Lords

    Performance

    Four people lean against a metal and glass railing with red neon lights on the wall behind them.

    Join us for a summer Saturday and the experimental minimalism, post-punk, and tightly wound rhythmic systems of Horse Lords

    Saturday, Jul 25, 2026

  2. Odilon Redon Salon: Words and Music

    Performance, Talk

    Vibrant pastel of a woman in a blue coat and red shirt against an abstract background of flowers in various shades of blue, white, and green.

    Immerse yourself in the rich artistic world of late-19th-century Paris to explore the connections between music, literature, and art

    Saturday, Jul 18, 2026

  3. Off the 405: LEENALCHI

    Performance

    A group of seven people sit and stand on a light green background surrounded by faux foliage and cutouts of birds.

    This seven-piece band from Seoul draws on Korea’s centuries-old tradition of musical folk storytelling, pansori, with bass-driven grooves

    Saturday, Jul 11, 2026

  4. Off the 405: Hunx and His Punx

    Performance

    A group of four sit in a retro convertible car, they wear sunglasses and are lit with spotlights.

    Ecstatic campy fun, laced with a bite, join us for sunsets and sounds with the queer garage punk of Hunx and His Punx at the Getty Center

    Saturday, Jun 13, 2026