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10 best art shows at SoCal museums in 2025, a year full of captivating moments
- The Getty Center and its partners led a standout year with multiple top exhibitions opening in 2025, including major surveys still on view.
- Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men at the Getty Center focuses on late-19th-century French homosocial life, unusual for Impressionist coverage.
- Guadalupe Rosales’s installation connects 1990s LA youth subcultures to present-day museum settings.
- Don Bachardy’s retrospective at the Huntington Library foregrounds intimate, performative portrait work.
- LACMA’s Realms of the Dharma installation provides a long-running Buddhist art focus drawing viewers through 2024–2025.
- Noah Davis’s 50-work UCLA Hammer Museum survey traces a pivotal arc in the artist’s career up to 2015.
- Queer Lens at the Getty Center surveys gender and sexuality representation across 19th–20th century photography.
- MONUMENTS at MOCA and The Geffen examines toppled Confederate and Jim Crow statues with critical historical commentary.
- Robert Therrien: This Is a Story at The Broad translates domestic objects into surreal, thought-provoking sculpture.
- The Times frames the year’s shows within a broader national context of attendance and fundraising challenges.
- Christopher Knight anchors the LA Times coverage, highlighting breadth and urgency of regional exhibitions.
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