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50 stories across Los Angeles, Contemporary, Modern, and New Media. Latest: LACMA's Grand Opening Weekend Draws Nearly 80,000 Visitors to David Geffen Galleries.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) welcomed nearly 80,000 visitors over a five-day period from June 18 through June 22, 2026, as part of the Grand Opening Weekend for the David Geffen Galleries, the museum's transformative new building.
Bonhams will auction Richard Simmons' personal collection, "Sweat and Soul," in an online sale from July 12-24. The auction features over 100 of his iconic bedazzled tank tops, each estimated at $200-300, along with branded memorabilia, gym equipment, and a portrait by Frank Cummings.
On June 23, 2026, the Getty Research Institute opened the exhibition “Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles,” on view through October 18, 2026.
Getty Publications has issued two new volumes, Michaelina Wautier by Katlijne Van der Stighelen and Anne Vallayer-Coster by Kelsey Brosnan.
The Getty Conservation Institute's Fall 2025 issue of Conservation Perspectives examines efforts to conserve African American historic sites in Los Angeles, including 224 locations once listed in the Negro Motorist Green Book.
The Getty Museum highlights the history of the color green through works in its collection, including Landscape with a Thunderstorm by Emilie Mediz-Pelikan from 1896 and A Draped Figure Holding a Book from around 1380.
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On June 21, 2026, Urs Fischer opened a pair of exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch’s two Los Angeles galleries in collaboration with Gagosian.
Bonhams will offer thirty original paintings by Bob Ross in collaboration with American Public Television throughout a series of sales beginning this November and through 2026.
On June 16, 2026, Getty Publications released Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs, a new book co-authored by Karin L. Stanford and Mark Speltz.
The Getty Museum has acquired Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Child, a stoneware relief by French sculptor Alexandre Charpentier. The work, with a model date of 1882 and produced about 1895 by the Muller manufactory, measures 42 3/8 x 30 6/8 x 4 5/8 in.
June 10, 2026, the Getty Museum published a new series of photographs from its collection exploring West Hollywood through historical and cultural moments.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired Ryan Schneider’s sculpture Deep Dive for its permanent collection. Created in 2025, the work is executed in onyx on a redwood pedestal and measures 27.9 x 25.4 x 22.9 cm.
On June 8, 2026, the Getty Research Institute announced the identification of Standing Male Nude from the Back, with a Smaller Sketch, a 1892 drawing by Otto Greiner, through collaboration with the Kupferstich-Kabinett at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
On November 12, 2025, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a multi-year partnership with Genesis to support innovative programming and audience engagement.
Jerry McMillan died in February at his home in Pasadena at the age of 89. The Getty Research Institute acquired his archive in 2015, which consists of approximately 7,000 negatives, 150 contact sheets, and 375 prints along with ephemera.
The Getty Research Institute, Getty Conservation Institute, Getty Foundation, and Getty Museum have named the 2026–2027 cohort of Getty Scholars. Since 1985 the program has hosted international researchers at the Getty Center and Getty Villa for advanced work on art and its histories.
On June 4, 2026, New Alternatives for Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth partnered with Everybody.World to release limited-edition T-shirts designed by Carol Bove. All proceeds support the nonprofit amid reduced public funding for queer and trans youth.
On June 4, 2026, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced its Grand Opening Weekend for the new David Geffen Galleries.
Hunx and His Punx will perform at the Getty Center as part of the Off the 405 concert series on June 13.
The Getty Museum presents Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing, an exhibition of 16th- to 19th-century European drawings that use biblical, classical, mythological, and everyday subjects to convey moral instruction.
Bonhams presents Diane Keaton: The Architecture of an Icon in partnership with The Fine Art Group. The collection of fine art, interiors, fashion, personal objects and memorabilia will be offered in four sales across New York and Los Angeles this June.
Getty drawings curator Stephanie Schrader examines Jacques de Gheyn II's Allegory of Avarice, about 1609, in the third season of the museum's Close Looking video series. The pen and brown ink drawing uses a frog as an allegory of avarice.
Barbara DuMetz's 1977 Kraft Foods Advertisement is included in the Getty Center exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, on view through June 14, 2026.
The Getty Museum offers mindfulness-based tours including the Breathe Tour, Art & Nature Tour, Memento Mori and Moving Mindfully tours led by head of education Keishia Gu.
May 22, 2026. Hauser & Wirth Learning is partnering with The Bridge+, a Hong Kong-based social enterprise, to deliver creative workshops inspired by Frank Bowling for children and families in Sham Shui Po.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host its 14th Art+Film Gala on November 1. The event honors artist Mary Corse and filmmaker Ryan Coogler. LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio serve as co-chairs.
May 22, 2026, Hauser & Wirth presented its Learning Exchange: Artists Matter gathering on May 2 at the gallery’s Downtown Los Angeles location.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted its 14th annual Art+Film Gala on November 1, 2025. The event welcomed nearly 600 guests from art, film, fashion and entertainment. It raised nearly $6.5 million, a new record, to support LACMA's film programming and broader mission.
The J. Paul Getty Trust joins the annual National Public Gardens Day on May 8, 2026, sponsored by the American Public Gardens Association. At the Getty Center a special tour of the Central Garden designed by the late Robert Irwin begins at 10:30 a.m. and is led by horticulturist Jackie Flor.
The Getty Center will close to the public beginning March 15, 2027, with reopening planned for spring 2028.
The episode of Becoming Artsy shows host Jessie visiting the Getty Museum’s Drawings Room to examine two bird watercolors by artist Sarah Stone. She next meets ornithologist Allison Shultz at the Natural History Museum, where a collection of taxidermied tanager birds is displayed.
Getty Museum podcast Becoming Artsy released episode 502 hosted by Jessie Hendricks. The episode features fashion designer Peder Cho transforming old Getty exhibition banners into wearable art.
Getty Publications has released Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs by Karin L. Stanford and Mark Speltz.
Kamasi Washington will perform his work Harmony of Difference at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries.
On October 1, 2025, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced that Doja Cat will serve as musical guest for its 2025 Art+Film Gala. The event honors artist Mary Corse and filmmaker Ryan Coogler.
The Getty Center will temporarily close to the public from spring 2027 through spring 2028. The Getty Villa Museum will remain open with additional offerings during the period. The J.
On October 28, 2025, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began, the artist’s first major museum exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition introduces more than 20 new works, including the artist’s most expansive neon piece and one of his largest sculptures to date.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents two winter exhibitions celebrating the layered histories of its Impressionist and Postimpressionist art holdings.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Now Showing: Youssef Nabil’s I Saved My Belly Dancer. The exhibition marks the first public presentation of the 2015 film since it entered the museum’s collection in 2025.
On January 13, 2022, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, an exhibition revisiting groundbreaking music through visual art.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907, an exhibition exploring the emergence of film in 19th-century Paris.
Three major Los Angeles art institutions will present a coordinated series of exhibitions on architect Paul R. Williams from August 2026 through July 2027. The participating museums are Getty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and USC Fisher Museum of Art.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Fútbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits by Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr. The exhibition features one-inch-high sculptures made primarily from chewing gum wrappers that depict unforgettable moments from the histories of women's and men's soccer.
LACMA is presenting Diffuse Control by Beeple, the artist’s first museum exhibition in the western United States. The work is a kinetic video sculpture that plays a continuously evolving video powered by custom AI models and real-time user interaction.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Grounded, a multi-media exhibition featuring 40 works by 35 artists based across the Americas and the Pacific. The exhibition examines land as a foundation to explore history, ecology, sovereignty, memory and home.
On October 8, 2025, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a gift of more than 130 works of Austrian Expressionism from the family of Otto Kallir.
On September 9, 2025, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced the acquisition of Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) as a bequest from the late Elaine Wynn. Wynn was a philanthropist and co-chair of LACMA’s board of trustees.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art acquired six works for its permanent collection during the 39th Collectors Committee fundraiser, including pieces by Max Beckmann, Manuel de Arellano, Chiura Obata, Miné Okubo, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tokio Ueyama and Virginia Vezzi, as well as a group of 101 Indone.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced the acquisition of Jeff Koons’s Split-Rocker (2000), a monumental sculpture adorned with living plants and flowers.
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