Getty Center opens Reggie Burrows Hodges show on 20 October

Getty Center presents Reggie Burrows Hodges: A Theater of Passions in Los Angeles from 20 October 2026, opening a new installation by the Los Angeles-born artist. The presentation runs until 28 February 2027 and places his paintings alongside the Getty collection that inspired them.

Reggie Burrows Hodges opens at the Getty Center on 20 October

The exhibition is installed in the Museum East Pavilion on the upper level. Getty describes the project as a new series by Hodges, who has developed a sustained engagement with historic European painting and its dramatic subjects.

The installation builds on paintings by Orazio Gentileschi and his daughter Artemisia Gentileschi. Hodges uses their seventeenth-century Italian works as a starting point, examining the violence, drama and theatricality embedded in biblical and mythological narratives. The official exhibition page gives the run as 20 October 2026 to 28 February 2027.

Five paintings connect Hodges with Gentileschi at the Getty Center

The installation features five paintings by Hodges, according to a Getty announcement about the three-venue presentation. The works respond to three paintings in the museum collection: Orazio Gentileschi’s Lot and His Daughters and Danaë and the Shower of Gold, together with Artemisia Gentileschi’s Lucretia.

This relationship gives the October opening a specific place in the museum’s programme. Visitors encounter contemporary paintings shaped by compositions from the seventeenth century, rather than a display of the historical works alone. Hodges reworks those references through his own visual language and links them to questions of identity, memory and perception.

The Los Angeles Times reported on 21 October 2026 that the exhibition formed part of Hodges’s first institutional solo presentation in Los Angeles. Its account places the Getty show within a wider city presentation of the artist’s work and identifies the Getty installation as A Theater of Passions.

Three Los Angeles venues share the October 20 opening

The Getty installation is one of three exhibitions opening across Los Angeles on 20 October 2026. The California African American Museum presents A Theater of Miracles, while Art + Practice presents A Theater of Dreams. Each venue gives Hodges’s work a different setting, with the Getty version focused on his response to Old Master painting.

For travellers, the arrangement makes the Getty exhibition part of a city-wide cultural programme rather than an isolated presentation. The Getty Center is at 1200 Getty Center Drive in Los Angeles, while the other two venues are elsewhere in the city and are not part of the Getty visit.

Visiting Getty Center: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• The exhibition runs at the Getty Center from 20 October 2026 through 28 February 2027, in the Museum East Pavilion on the upper level.
• Admission to the museum is free, but a timed-entry reservation is required. The exhibition is included in that reservation.
• The museum is at 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, California 90049, USA. Getty identifies the site as a museum of art from the Middle Ages to today, set among modern architecture and gardens.
• Gallery access is currently affected by renovation work: the South Pavilion, East Pavilion plaza-level galleries and North Pavilion galleries are closed.

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Frequently asked questions about Getty Center

When does Reggie Burrows Hodges take place at Getty Center?

Reggie Burrows Hodges: A Theater of Passions runs from 20 October 2026 to 28 February 2027.

What is Getty Center?

It is a Los Angeles art museum presenting works from the Middle Ages to today, alongside modern architecture and gardens.

Where is Getty Center and how do you get there?

The museum is at 1200 Getty Center Drive in Los Angeles, California. Visitors need a timed-entry reservation, and the site provides parking and transport information for reaching the museum.