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Exhibits

Current and Upcoming Exhibits

José Ramirez, Strike Music Teacher, 2019, mixed media on canvas, courtesy of the artist

Jose Ramirez: En su propia tierra / In His Own Soil

May 02, 2019 to August 04, 2019

Central Library, Getty Gallery

Jose Ramirez (b. 1967) is an artist, teacher, and urban gardener. His paintings, mined from the depth of his Mexican-American heritage,...

Vintage Jewish Fashion Posters

May 01, 2019 to September 11, 2019

Robertson Branch Library, Reading Room

This exhibition, on loan from the collection of the Bernard H.

Senior Art Exhibit: Connect, Create, Contribute

May 01, 2019 to May 31, 2019

Central Library, Social Science Department, LL3

The City of Los Angeles Department of Aging (LADOA) presents an art exhibit featuring older adults of the City of Los Angeles as part of...

View of the Lockheed Corporation aircraft plant in Burbank

On Assignment: Ansel Adams in Los Angeles

April 25, 2019 to October 20, 2019

Central Library, Annenberg Gallery

During the waning weeks of 1940, war waged overseas and it was becoming apparent that the United States’ days of neutrality were...

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

February 7 through June 23, 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...

Past Exhibits

Radical Kinship: Celebrating 30 Years of Homeboy Industries	21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story
My Name is Aram: William Saroyan, An Armenian Native Son	L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues
Aftermath Project: War is Only Half the Story	We Won't Go: The L.A. Resistance, Vietnam and the Draft
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

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