The Art that Built L.A.: From Industrial Fortunes to Modern Masters

May 14 – 18, 2026

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In the City of Angels, gain rare access to some of California’s most influential private art collections through the eyes of the collectors who built them.

This exclusive program begins with scholar-led viewings before public hours at the Hammer, including rarely seen drawings pulled from the vault, and exclusive access to the Getty’s Drawing Collection. Enjoy early-entry to the Broad Museum, with a chance to be alone in Yayoi Kusama’s famous art installation, Infinity Mirrored RoomThe Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. at Pasadena’s Norton Simon, delight in a curator-led look at masterpieces by Degas, Cézanne, and Gauguin. Join an architectural historian to discover details seldom shown to the public at the Gamble House, one of America’s finest examples of Arts and Crafts design. Enjoy innovative boutiques and eateries, and explore Los Angeles’s Arts District at leisure.

Highlights

Lecturer

Linda Wolk-Simon

Lecturer

Linda Wolk-Simon is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art. After nearly 25 years as a curator and educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she became Head of the Drawings Department at the Morgan Library and Director of the Fairfield University Museum. Currently she is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She has organized exhibitions, lectured extensively, and authored catalogues, essays, articles and reviews on Italian art, and co-authored the Met’s The Medici: Portraits and Politics. Her publication Raphael at the Metropolitan received an award for excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators, and she was recently inducted into the National Jesuit Honor Society in recognition of her acclaimed exhibition and book, The Holy Name. Art of the Gesù.

Accommodations

Downtown LA Proper

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