Graduate students enrolled in the seminar “Early Modern Art History and Cultural Encounter” traveled to Los Angeles over Fall Break to conduct research and visit several major museums. Led by Prof. Carlos Rivas, the graduate seminar discusses the encounter of the “other” in the early modern period, with a focus on how the study of such encounters raises important questions on ethics, museum display, and modernity itself. During the trip, students were able to pull early modern material from the Special Collections of the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and examine them closely. Students explored the rest of the Getty Center including several special exhibitions devoted to the theme of “light,” such as Lumen: The Art and Science of Light, which showcased how the science of light was studied in the medieval world, and another exhibit devoted to holographic imagery. They also visited other major museums in L.A., including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Broad.