Los Angeles & Southern California Collections

This exhibition examines the architectural design and cultural politics of the historic station.
Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library, May 2–August 10, 2014.

This groundbreaking exhibition provides an engaging view of the region's diverse urban landscape, including its ambitious freeway network, sleek corporate towers, whimsical coffee shops, popular shopping malls, refined steel-and-glass residences, and eclectic cultural institutions. Drawings, photographs, models, films, animations, oral histories, and ephemera illustrate the complex dimensions of L.A.'s rich and often underappreciated built environment, revealing this metropolis's global impact.
Getty Center, April 9 - July 21, 2013; National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., October 20, 2013–March 10, 2014.

Many of LA’s most influential graffiti and tattoo artists will cover the walls and floors of ESMoA to publicly launch their 21st century encounter with an artistic tradition: The Getty Graffiti Black Book. In 2013 more than 150 of LA’s leading graffiti artists responded to a 16th century manuscript from the vaults of the Getty Research Institute called a liber amicorum (book of friends) by contributing works on paper to be bound into a single book and created the Getty Graffiti Black Book.
ESMoA, El Segundo. June 8–September 21, 2014