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Exhibits

Current and Upcoming Exhibits

All Access: Behind the Scenes with NBA Photographer Andrew D. Bernstein

February 7 through April 14, 2019

Central Library, First Floor Galleries

Award-winning photographer Andrew D. Bernstein has captured the championship-winning seasons of the Los Angeles Lakers, Dodgers, and...

Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Phelton with light at night in front of police car

Satan’s Summer in the City of Angels: The Social Impact of the Night Stalker

January 17, 2019 to July 14, 2019

Central Library, History and Genealogy Department, LL4

LA has known its share of notorious murderers. Hickman, Glatman, Bashor, Sirhan, Manson, Turner, Bianchi and Buono, just to name an ugly...

Straw Horse - Morgyn Owens-Celli, American Museum of Straw Art

21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story

September 28, 2018 to March 24, 2019

Central Library, Getty Gallery

21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story is an exhibition presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles in collaboration...

Treasures of Los Angeles

Ongoing

Central Library, Annenberg Gallery

The Annenberg Gallery displays some of the extraordinary materials collected by the Los Angeles Public Library since its founding in...

Past Exhibits

Radical Kinship: Celebrating 30 Years of Homeboy Industries	My Name is Aram: William Saroyan, An Armenian Native Son
L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues	We Won't Go: The L.A. Resistance, Vietnam and the Draft
Aftermath Project: War is Only Half the Story	Robert Weingarten: Focus on Infinity
Take None/Give None: Gusmano Cesaretti Photographs The Chosen Few Motorcyle Club	For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
The Industry in Our Backyard: Television Production in Los Angeles 1940s-1980s	Going Gray in LA: Stories of Aging Along Broadway
Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A.	L.A. Landmarks: Lost and Almost Lost
Pintando: The Colors of Education	City of Angels: Portraits
Signs of Life: Los Angeles is the City of Neon	America's Shakespeare - The Bard Goes West
HERSTORY	Service, Society and Social Change: Post – War Clubs from the Valley Times Newspaper
#TMHealthLA Photography Exhibit	State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda

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