EXHIBITIONS ON DISPLAY AT GETTY MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
Getty offers changing exhibitions at both locations year-round, complemented by a wide range of public programs.
Current Exhibitions
Mercedes Dorame: Woshaa’axre Yaang’aro (Looking Back)
June 20, 2023–June 17, 2024
Getty Center
Los Angeles-based artist Mercedes Dorame’s work explores how we position ourselves in relation to the land we inhabit. For this new commission, Dorame was drawn to the view from the Getty Center across the Pacific Ocean to Pimugna, or Pimu (Catalina Island), long inhabited by the Tongva people. To conjure a return gaze from Pimugna, her installation includes painted views of the coastline and suspended sculptures of abalone—an endangered mollusk and important cultural resource for coastal California Native peoples.
This project is the first “Rotunda Commission,” a series of art installations inspired by the Getty Museum’s collection, architecture, and site.
Untold Stories of a Monumental Pastel
October 3, 2023–October 20, 2024
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One of the largest pastels made in the 18th century, Maurice Quentin de La Tour’s Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux is an astonishing object. In this colossal portrait, the ambitious La Tour pushed pastel to new heights, capturing his sitter’s likeness and surrounding de Rieux with the trappings of his wealth: fine furniture, an extensive library, imported porcelain, and a globe turned to display the West coast of Africa. This focused exhibition highlights both La Tour’s technical achievement and the global reality that financed and furnished de Rieux’s world.
Camille Claudel
April 2, 2024–July 21, 2024
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Celebrated for her brilliance during a time when women sculptors were rare, Camille Claudel was among the most daring and visionary artists of the late 19th century. Although remembered today for her dramatic life story—her passionate relationship with artist Auguste Rodin and her 30-year internment in a psychiatric institution—her art remains little known outside of France. Including about 60 artworks, this major exhibition seeks to re-evaluate Claudel’s work and affirm her legacy within a more complex genealogy of Modernism.
Nineteenth-Century Photography Now
April 9, 2024–July 7, 2024
Getty Center
Given the ubiquity of photography in our lives today, the small, sepia-toned images made in the 19th century may appear remote and unconnected to the present. Yet, many of the conventions established when photographic technology was new and cutting-edge are still in use and relevant today. This exhibition provides fresh perspectives on Getty’s collection of 19th‐century photography via the work of contemporary artists who respond directly to its historical themes and subject matter.
Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistent Pioneer
April 9, 2024–July 7, 2024
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Hippolyte Bayard—Parisian bureaucrat by day and persistent inventor and artist after hours—is one of the lesser-known pioneers of photography. This exhibition presents an extraordinarily rare opportunity to view some of Bayard’s highly fragile photographs dating from the 1840s—the first decade of the new medium—and to explore his early processes, subjects, and strategies to achieve recognition. It highlights one of Getty’s most treasured photographic holdings—Bayard’s album of over 150 prints, one of the first photographic albums ever created.
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