This Week in LA: Jan. 1→7, 2026
In this Edition: Happy New Year — Museum Highlights to Kick Off 2026!
Happy New Year! As we step into 2026, there’s no better time to seek out inspiration and fresh perspectives. This edition highlights some of the exceptional exhibitions still on view at LA’s major museums—perfect for starting the year with art, ideas, and discovery.
At the Getty Center, How to Be a Guerrilla Girl continues to explore the anonymous feminist collective’s 40 years of eye-catching interventions and culture jamming. The Hammer Museum‘s Made in L.A. 2025 remains on view, featuring 28 artists practicing throughout greater Los Angeles in the seventh iteration of its signature biennial. Over at LACMA, Tavares Strachan’s The Day Tomorrow Began offers immersive installations illuminating stories rendered invisible within mainstream narratives. The Broad continues its survey of Robert Therrien’s work—the largest museum exhibition to date—spanning five decades from enormous tables and chairs to intimate drawings. At the Marciano Art Foundation, No Nostalgia reveals the lesser-known painting practice of poet and Warhol superstar John Giorno. And at The Huntington, Radical Histories showcases six decades of Chicano printmaking as resistance and cultural reclamation.
Wishing you a bright and inspiring year ahead. Explore our picks below and start 2026 with art!
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Getty Center | Brentwood
How to Be a Guerrilla Girl
November 18, 2025 – April 12, 2026
Drawing on the Guerrilla Girls’ archive, this exhibition explores the anonymous feminist art collective’s eye-catching public interventions, data research, protest actions, and culture jamming in their 40-year commitment to call for equity in the art world.
Hammer Museum | Westwood
Made in L.A. 2025
On view through March 1, 2026
The seventh iteration of the Hammer’s signature biennial featuring 28 artists practicing throughout greater Los Angeles, presenting work in film, painting, theater, choreography, photography, sculpture, sound, and video that engages with the city in ways alternately literal, formal, material, and metaphoric.
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | Miracle Mile
Jaws: The Exhibition
On view through July 26, 2026
The largest exhibition ever mounted for Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film revisits Jaws scene by scene through original objects, behind-the-scenes revelations, and interactive moments celebrating the 50th anniversary of cinema’s first summer blockbuster.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) | Miracle Mile
Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
On view through September 13, 2026
More than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas present the world’s oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images, from patterned Indian fabrics to German Expressionist experiments and contemporary reinterpretations.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) | Miracle Mile
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began
On view through March 29, 2026
The artist’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles featuring immersive multisensory installations across distinct environments—from uncanny everyday spaces to rice grass fields with ceramic figures to monumental bronze sculptures—illuminating stories rendered invisible within mainstream narratives, particularly related to the Black diaspora.
Marciano Art Foundation | Koreatown
John Giorno: No Nostalgia
On view through April 25, 2026
Text paintings, early prints, and rainbow canvases reveal the lesser-known painting practice of poet, activist, and Warhol superstar John Giorno, whose work fused New York street life, Buddhist thought, and the raw immediacy of language.
MOCA | Grand Avenue, DTLA
Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds
On view through September 20, 2026
Over 80 artworks from MOCA’s collection demonstrating how artists create their own worlds through art, embracing boundaries between personal and social lives while privileging sites of creativity and imagination, featuring artists including Belkis Ayón, Mona Hatoum, Wangechi Mutu, and Nan Goldin.
The Broad | DTLA
Robert Therrien: This is a Story
November 22, 2025 – April 5, 2026
The largest museum exhibition of Therrien’s work to date features over 120 pieces spanning five decades, showcasing his personal vocabulary of enormous tables and chairs alongside intimate drawings of snowmen, birds, and chapels.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA | DTLA
MONUMENTS
On view through January 5, 2026
This exhibition juxtaposes decommissioned Confederate monuments with contemporary artworks, expanding the context in which they are understood and highlighting gaps in popular narratives of American history.
The Huntington | San Marino
Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
On view through March 2, 2026
The West Coast debut features 60 bold works by 40 artists and collectives spanning six decades of Chicano printmaking as a form of resistance, community building, and cultural reclamation, including a commissioned mural by Melissa Govea.
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