Image: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum has announced plans to collaborate with the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on a citywide tribute to architect Paul R. Williams. The project will take the form of a series of exhibitions presented across Los Angeles, although the institutions have not yet released dates, venues or further details about the programme.
The announcement was included in a Getty Research Institute communication issued on August 27, 2026. It describes Williams’s career as “extraordinary” and identifies the initiative as a joint effort among Getty, USC and LACMA. A dedicated Getty webpage for the project is now online, but the supplied material does not provide information about its curatorial approach, participating departments, loans, catalogue or public programmes.
The partnership brings together three major Los Angeles institutions with distinct roles in the city’s cultural and educational landscape. Getty’s activities include the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute and other programmes devoted to art, conservation and scholarship. USC is identified in the announcement as a collaborating institution, while LACMA is named as the project’s other museum partner.
The planned exhibitions will be distributed across Los Angeles rather than presented as a single-venue exhibition. The source material does not specify how many exhibitions are intended, which institution will host each component, or whether the programme will include buildings, drawings, photographs, archival material or other objects associated with Williams’s work.
The announcement also refers to a recent article in the New York Times about the forthcoming exhibitions, but the details available here are confined to the institutions involved and the broad format of the project. Getty says that additional information will be provided on its website.
No opening date or closing date has been announced. For now, the confirmed scope is a multi-institutional, Los Angeles-wide series of exhibitions devoted to Paul R. Williams, developed by Getty, USC and LACMA.
