Exhibits

Current and Upcoming Exhibits

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Ara Oshagan: How the Future May Hold

October 18, 2025 to January 11, 2026

Central Library, Annenberg Gallery, Second Floor

This exhibit explores diasporic identity, afterlives of displacement and colonization, right of return, and (un)imagined futures. The...

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Room 8: A Cat in the Classroom - Photographing Los Angeles’ Most Famous Feline

August 18, 2025 to January 11, 2026

Central Library, History & Genealogy Department

In his 16 years living in the classrooms and hallways of Elysian Heights Elementary, Room 8 was said to have never growled or scratched...

Sounds of Sunset

August 09, 2025 to November 30, 2025

Central Library, First Floor Galleries

Developed through a Fulbright Specialist grant awarded to photo librarian Wendy Horowitz, The Sounds of Sunset depicts the...

Looks Like a Home to Me: Inside the Progressive Art Studios

June 21, 2025 to December 07, 2025

Central Library, Getty Gallery

Looks Like a Home to Me celebrates the remarkable achievements of artists working in Progressive Art Studios in California and...

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