The Getty Center presents "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985," a traveling exhibition from the National Gallery of Art featuring 150 images by Black midcentury photographers. The show, on view from February 24 through June 14, includes works by Gordon Parks, Ming Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Adger Cowans, Doris A. Derby, Harry Adams, Leonard Freed, John Simmons, and others, capturing moments of protest, daily life, and community resistance.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles has opened a new exhibition titled "Symbols and Signs: Decoding Medieval Manuscripts," which runs from May 20 to August 10. The show features illuminated manuscripts from the 9th to 17th centuries, including the Rothschild Pentateuch, a 700-year-old Hebrew manuscript with over 1,000 pages. Curator Orsolya Mednyánszky explains that the exhibition aims to demystify the codes—words, images, and schematic symbols—that medieval readers would have understood intuitively, pairing the manuscripts with modern photographs from the Getty’s collection to highlight parallels in visual communication.