20 Coolest Art Exhibits In Los Angeles To See In November 2024

From the Petersen's colorful lowrider exhibition to the Natural History Museum's reopened diorama halls, these are all the spectacular Los Angeles exhibits you need to see for yourself.

Jamie Ferrell - Senior Staff Writer • October 31, 2024

L.A.’s thriving cultural scene offers thought-provoking creativity in every shape and form imaginable. But while there are tons of world-class museums in Los Angeles to lose yourself in all year round, there are a few that stand out as must-sees. From The Broad to LACMA, here are the best museum installations and art exhibits in Los Angeles that you simply cannot miss.

This new Petersen Museum exhibition takes us through the craft of lowrider culture, including paint, metal finishings, interiors, and hydraulics. Now that cruising bans have been lifted in California, lowriders are rolling into a new era on local streets. Learn all about the artistry and craftsmanship involved in creating these immaculate vehicles.

🎟️ Tickets: Best in Low is viewable with general admission tickets to the Petersen Museum

🗓️ Dates: Open now through April 2025

📍 Location: Mid-Wilshire – Petersen Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Beetlejuice fans have descended on local theaters to see Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. If you can’t get enough of this wild and wonderful universe, we’re lucky to have an officially-licensed immersive experience right here in L.A. Explore 11,000 square feet of recreated sets, photo ops, goofy characters, and even themed food and drinks.

🎟️ Tickets: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: The Afterlife Experience

🗓️ Dates: Tickets available now through November

📍 Location: Hollywood – Ovation Hollywood Suite 201, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028

In this Getty Center exhibition, learn about a time when the moments of cosmic bodies were believed to influence personalities and seasonal conditions. Explore the twelve signs of the zodiac that we still use today in the context of their intersections with medicine and life for medieval Europeans. Displayed works include thirteenth-century texts and pen-and-ink drawings.

🎟️ Tickets: Rising Signs is viewable with free general admission to the Getty Center.

🗓️ Dates: Oct. 1, 2024 – Jan. 5, 2025

📍 Location: Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049

One of the Getty Center’s most coveted works is Irises by Vincent Van Gogh, which has been in the museum’s collection since 1990. This new exhibition delves into the science of conserving Van Gogh’s famous work through the use of special lights and analytical tools. Learn about how natural light has changed the painting over time, and how conservators are working to preserve it.

🎟️ Tickets: Ultra-Violet is viewable with free general admission to the Getty Center.

🗓️ Dates: Oct. 1, 2024 – Jan. 19, 2025

📍 Location: Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049

The Latin GRAMMYs are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, and L.A.’s GRAMMY Museum will honor the prestigious event with a new showcase of red carpet looks, instruments, and other artifacts from the world’s most popular Latin stars. Look out for Celia Cruz’s famous blue-and-white wig, Juan Luis Guerra’s personal percussion instruments, an acoustic guitar belonging to Shakira, and a Gabbanelli accordion donated by Intocable’s Ricky Muñoz.

🎟️ Tickets: Latin GRAMMYs 25 is viewable with general admission tickets to the GRAMMY Museum.

🗓️ Dates: Sept. 19 – Dec. 18, 2024

📍 Location: Downtown LA – GRAMMY Museum, 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre centered on near-future scenarios, provides some of the most thought-provoking images and scenes in cinema. This new exhibition from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures presents artifacts from the industry’s most iconic cyberpunk films including Blade Runner, Tron, and Ghost in the Shell. Writer-director Alex Rivera adds a compelling voiceover throughout the presentation, delving into the genre’s origins, new directions, and future implications.

🎟️ Tickets: Cyberpunk is viewable with general admission tickets to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

🗓️ Dates: Oct. 6, 2024 – Apr. 12, 2026

📍 Location: Mid-Wilshire – Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

See your favorite red carpet looks from the most recent GRAMMYs and Latin GRAMMYs at this brand new ongoing exhibition. Look out for Lizzo’s massive red rose gown from Dolce & Gabbana, Shania Twain’s black and white polka dot suit by Harris Reed, and Harry Styles’ colorful patchwork jumpsuit by Egonlab.

🎟️ Tickets: On The Red Carpet is viewable with general admission tickets to the GRAMMY Museum.

🗓️ Dates: Nov. 4, 2024 – ongoing

📍 Location: Downtown LA – GRAMMY Museum, 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

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San Francisco photographer Jay Blakesberg has captured three decades of music history on film between 1978 and 2008. This magnificent exhibition in LA presents over 150 of his most exemplary photographs depicting performances from a range of artists including E-40, Dr. Dre, Nirvana, Radiohead, Tracy Chapman, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Green Day, Ice-T, Flaming Lips, and dozens of others.

🎟️ Tickets: RetroBlakesberg is viewable with general admission tickets to the GRAMMY Museum.

🗓️ Dates: Nov. 8, 2024 – June 15, 2025

📍 Location: Downtown LA – GRAMMY Museum, 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

This engaging new Getty Center exhibition examines how different authorities studied the science of light during the “Long Middle Ages” (800-1600 CE). Compare the perspectives of philosophers, theologians, and artists layered with their respective Christian, Muslim, and Jewish ideologies. In addition to ancient works from Western Europe, you’ll see several contemporary artwork installations that add to the themes of light and darkness.

🎟️ Tickets: Lumen is viewable with free general admission to the Getty Center.

🗓️ Dates: Sept. 10 – Dec. 8, 2024

📍 Location: Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049

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The Natural History Museum is famous for its life-size diorama halls, displaying over 75 different habitats representing global ecosystems including the Arctic tundra, the jungles of Tanzania, and the Great Plains of North America. To honor the 100th anniversary of the dioramas, the NHM will reopen a diorama hall that has been closed for decades. See newly restored dioramas that showcase this unique union of art and science.

🎟️ Tickets: Reframing Dioramas is viewable with general admission tickets to the Natural History Museum.

🗓️ Dates: Sept. 15, 2024 – Sept. 15, 2025

📍 Location: Exposition Park – Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007

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Celebrate the stunning archive of Ben Caldwell, a community-minded filmmaker and producer based in LA. A + P collaborated with the California African American Museum to present this retrospective of Caldwell’s work, comprising a selection of works including photography, film, music, performance, and interactive media.

🎟️ Tickets: Kaos Theory is viewable with free admission to A + P.

🗓️ Dates: Oct. 12, 2024 – Mar. 8, 2025

📍 Location: Leimert Park – Art + Practice Exhibition Space, 3401 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008

In the wake of the Natural History Museum’s popular butterfly pavilion, the renowned museum will unveil their new Spider Pavilion just in time for Halloween. Walk among magnificent spiders and webs, including some webs up to 10 feet wide, and take a peek into enclosed habitats at tarantulas, jumping spiders, and even Huntsmans.

🎟️ Tickets: The Spider Pavilion costs $10 per person on top of general admission

🗓️ Dates: Sept. 15 – Nov. 24, 2024

📍 Location: Exposition Park – Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007

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If you’re a lover of fashion history, the Skirball’s Diane von Furstenberg showcase is a must this year. The US debut exhibition presents over sixty pieces from the archives of Belgian fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, including her iconic wrap dress which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Explore four thematic sections diving into the designer’s life and work, presented through the use ephemera, media pieces, fabric swatches, and more.

🎟️ Tickets: Diane von Furstenberg is viewable with general admission tickets to the Skirball Cultural Center.

🗓️ Dates: Oct. 17, 2024 – Aug. 31, 2025

📍 Location: Santa Monica Mountains – Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049

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LACMA collaborated with Carnegie Observatories and the Griffith Observatory for this exhibition exploring the history of cosmologies. Learn about how different cultures, time periods, and religions across history have attempted to explain the universe, from its origins to its greater meaning.

🎟️ Tickets: Mapping the Infinite is viewable with general admission tickets to LACMA.

🗓️ Dates: Oct. 20, 2024 – Mar. 2, 2025

📍 Location: Mid-Wilshire – LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Ever since laser technology was invented in the 1960s, artists have experimented with the art form of holograms. See fascinating three-dimensional images floating in space, all created by artists from the C Project in the nineties, including John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, and Ed Ruscha.

🎟️ Tickets: Viewable with free general admission to the Getty Center

🗓️ Dates: Aug. 20 – Nov. 24, 2024

📍 Location: Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049

In the early 20th century, automotive designs and highway systems reached a level of standardization that most drivers take for granted these days. In this exhibition, The Petersen Museum presents a collection of oft-overlooked automobiles designed by visual artists. These weird and wonderful designs include the spaceship-like 1955 Chrysler Ghia Gilda; the three-wheeled 1933 Dymaxion, which looks like a submarine; and the 1956 American Motors Astra-Gnome with a cartoonish clear bubble body.

🎟️ Tickets: Eyes on the Road is viewable with general admission tickets to the Petersen Museum.

🗓️ Dates: On view now through Nov 2024

📍 Location: Mid-Wilshire – Petersen Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures presents an array objects and artifacts from The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), an opportunity for film buffs to learn about the making of one of Hollywood’s most storied film franchises. See costumes, props, scripts, and equipment, many of which have never been presented to the public, and all of which provide valuable insight to the process of filmmaking in the ’70s.

🎟️ Tickets: Viewable with general admission tickets to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

🗓️ Dates: On view now through Jan. 5, 2025

📍 Location: Mid-Wilshire – Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms are turning heads from San Francisco to New York, and we’re lucky to have two of them available to visit for free right here in LA.

🎟️ Tickets: Free to visit at The Broad, but a reservation is required for Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away.

🗓️ Dates: Ongoing

📍 Location: Downtown LA – The Broad, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles

Discover 30 innovative inventions drawn from Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, brought to life by contemporary Italian artisans and displayed in a stunning presentation at the California Science Center. The exciting LA exhibit features famous contraptions including the Flying Bicycle, Mechanical Bat, Great Kite, the Helical Air Screw, and the 33-foot-wide Mechanical Eagle. Over a dozen of the presented models are built at full scale, and many of the works are presented alongside an interactive activity where you can test your engineering skills.

🎟️ Tickets: Leonardo da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer. requires special admission tickets.

🗓️ Dates: Ongoing

📍 Location: Exposition Park – California Science Center, 700 Exposition Park Dr., Los Angeles

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The Broad presents a showcase of work by legendary American artist Andy Warhol, who is best known as a leading influence in the pop art genre. This installation takes the viewer through 26 of Warhol’s works, eleven of which are on view for the first time at The Broad. The major artwork to seek out is Liz [Early Colored Liz], which is a silkscreened image of Elizabeth Taylor from 1963. Other items on display include Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Can (Clam Chowder – Manhattan Style) [Ferus Type] and 40 Gold Marilyns.

🎟️ Tickets: Expansive Presentation of Andy Warhol is free to visit at The Broad.

🗓️ Dates: Ongoing

📍 Location: Downtown LA – The Broad, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles

Whether you’re an art lover, hosting visitors, or just want to change up your weekend plans, we love these Los Angeles exhibitions for a chance to experience the city’s thriving arts and culture scene. Which one will you see next?

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