Image: Getty Villa, Los Angeles
The Getty will present 'Odilon Redon Salon: Words and Music' on July 18, 2026, a free afternoon program at the Getty Center in Los Angeles that combines lecture, chamber music and readings around the Symbolist artist’s late 19th-century world. The event is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium, with tickets required for entry.
According to the event listing, the salon is designed to explore the artistic atmosphere that shaped Redon’s work, drawing connections between sound, literature, imagination and Symbolist art. The program includes performances of music by Bach, Chausson and Saint-Saëns, alongside reflections on writers such as Gustave Flaubert and Edgar Allan Poe.
The chamber music portion is organized by French violinist Ambroise Aubrun. Readings and a discussion of Redon’s art will be led by Danielle Canter, curator of 'Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions', the Getty exhibition that opens July 14 and runs through October 18, 2026, at the Getty Center.
Redon’s name anchors both the salon and the related exhibition, but the two formats are distinct: one is a performance-and-talk event, while the other is a museum exhibition on view at the Getty Center. The salon’s stated purpose is to trace how the artist’s late 19th-century Paris intersected with broader cultural currents in music and literature.
The event is free, though tickets are required, and those tickets also serve as the Center entrance reservation. The listing notes that parking is subject to a fee and that tickets will be available beginning Monday, June 1, 2026.
Event information on the Getty calendar says check-in begins 90 minutes before the program start time, with doors opening 30 minutes before. The afternoon salon is listed as approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes long, with assisted listening devices and wheelchair access available through the venue’s visitor services.
