Opening This Month
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Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, exhibited 1842, Joseph Mallord William Turner. Oil on canvas. Tate: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856. Photo © Tate, London 2014
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J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free
February 24–May 24, 2015 | The Getty Center
This exhibition brings together over 60 key oil paintings and watercolors by J. M. W. Turner produced during the last 15 years of his life—a time of extraordinary inventiveness in the artist's career. Demonstrating ongoing radicalism of technique and original subject matter, these works show Turner constantly challenging his contemporaries while remaining keenly aware of the market for his art.
This exhibition was organized by Tate Britain, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.
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Queen of the Night, about 1864–67, Moritz von Schwind. Watercolor over graphite. The J. Paul Getty Museum
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Zeitgeist: Art in the Germanic World, 1800–1900
February 10–May 17, 2015 | The Getty Center
Paintings, drawings, and prints from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and distinguished local private collections examine a pivotal moment in German history in this exhibition. Works by artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge, and Gustav Klimt reflect the profound changes in Germany between 1800 and 1900, brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the formal unification of Germany into a nation state, and the invention of psychoanalysis.
Continuing This Month
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Saint Edward the Confessor (detail), about 1430–40, Master of Sir John Fastolf. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 5, fol. 42v
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Give and Ye Shall Receive: Gift Giving in the Middle Ages
Through March 15, 2015 | The Getty Center
Gift exchange in the Middle Ages was the social interaction that defined and manifested relationships between family and friends, acquaintances and strangers, and God and the church. The medieval book itself was a particularly powerful present, an object filled with words and striking images meant to edify and flatter the recipient, as well as to solidify political and social alliances. Explore the culture of gift giving in the Middle Ages as depicted in illuminated manuscripts from the Getty Museum's collection.
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Prague, 1968, Josef Koudelka. Gelatin silver print. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, promised gift of private collector. © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
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Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful
Through March 22, 2015 | The Getty Center
Czech-born photographer Josef Koudelka has produced some of the most iconic and riveting photographs of the last 50 years. In 1968, he risked his life to document the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which ultimately forced his exile. Unable to produce documentation that verified his birthplace as Czechoslovakia, he acquired the legal status of "Nationality Doubtful." This exhibition traces Koudelka's influential career from its beginnings to his recent work focusing on expansive, panoramic images.
This exhibition was co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago in association with Fundación MAPFRE.
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Massacre, 1914–16, Henry de Groux. Etching with soft-ground etching. The Getty Research Institute
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World War I: War of Images, Images of War
Through April 19, 2015 | The Getty Center
The first major war of the 20th century, World War I unleashed modern technologies of killing and devastation never before seen. In this first war fought by an entire generation of modern artists, culture was enlisted as an integral part of the conflict. This exhibition examines World War I from two perspectives: the representation of the war in propaganda, and the depiction of war by artists who experienced the brutality firsthand.
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Cup with Centaur, 1–100, Roman. Silver and gold. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris
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Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville
Through August 17, 2015
| The Getty Villa
In 1830, a French farmer accidentally discovered the spectacular hoard of gilt-silver statuettes and vessels known as the Berthouville Treasure. Following four years of meticulous conservation and research at the Getty Villa, this exhibition presents the opulent cache in its entirety— together with precious gems, jewelry, and other Roman luxury objects from the royal collections of the Cabinet des Médailles at the Bibliothèque nationale de France—offering new insights about ancient art, technology, religion, and cultural interaction.
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Performances
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Yuri Yanakov
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Sounds of L.A.: Yuri Yunakov and the Yunakov Ensemble
Saturday, February 7, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 8, 3:30 p.m. | The Getty Center
The hallmark of Bulgarian wedding music is virtuosic technique, dynamic key changes, and eclectic musical influences. Turkish-Bulgarian Roma saxophonist, Yuri Yunakov, is one of the genre's pioneers, a NEA National Heritage Fellow, and a tireless champion of this music and the extraordinary culture from which it comes. Simply put, Yunakov's concerts are an untethered celebration of what makes life worth living.
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Cora on a train. Photo: Janie Geiser
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Villa Theater Lab: Tungsten (artery), A Modern Retelling of Persephone
Friday, February 20, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 21, 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 22, 2:00 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
This multidisciplinary puppet play with video and live performance centers on Cora, a contemporary Persephone whose annual return to the "upper air" has been the catalyst for spring. But her role, and the cycle of the seasons, are now in question. Directed and designed by Janie Geiser. Written by Erik Ehn. Tickets $7.
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Lectures
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Saint John on Patmos (detail), about 1500, Master of the Chronique scandaleuse. Tempera colors, ink and gold on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Ms. 109, fol 93
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A Treasury of Devotion: Books of Hours and Their Owners
Thursday, February 12, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
The book of hours was the laity's prayer book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and often used as a tool for learning how to read as well as how to pray. Virginia Reinburg, associate professor of history at Boston College, discusses how those fortunate enough to own books of hours often turned them into a collection of favorite prayers, images, pilgrim souvenirs, and family lore.
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Quiet Heroes (detail) from the cover of Kriegszeit Künstlerflugblätter, no. 54 (October 1, 1915), Waldemar Rösler. Lithograph. Lent by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
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World War I Lecture Series: Representing Trauma in WWI
Sunday, February 22, 2:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
The second installment in this series begins with a screening of Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy's avant-garde film
Ballet mécanique (1924, 16 minutes), followed by an analysis from art historian Gordon Hughes, considering the film through the lens of Léger's traumatic experience as a French soldier in World War I. Historian Paul Lerner will then situate the massive wave of debilitating trauma that afflicted combatants on all sides of the war within the context of competing early-20th-century psychiatric theories.
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Red-figure volute krater showing Amazons preparing for battle (detail), Greek, Athens, 490 B.C., terracotta. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Gift of Gordon McLendon
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Amazons: Warrior Women of the Ancient World
Thursday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
Fierce Amazons are featured in some of the most famous of Greek myths—but were they real? Author Adrienne Mayor tells of new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons as evidence that warrior women were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Free; a ticket is required.
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