Visit France's Oldest Tapestry Workshop
Tapestry blossomed as an art form in 17th-century France, a story told in the exhibition
Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV. Skilled artisans continue this long tradition today at France's Gobelins manufactory, spending years creating a single masterpiece.
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video voyage to the Gobelins to discover the process behind this time-honored art form.
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Opening This Month
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The Investiture of Sinchi Roca by Manco Capac, 1616. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XIII 16, fol. 21
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Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts
January 26–June 26, 2016 | The Getty Center
Embark on a kaleidoscopic journey through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to consider how illuminated manuscripts and other portable objects contributed to one's outlook on the world in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the early Americas. This exhibition presents stunning, and at times surprising, images and a range of ideas about exploration, exotic pursuits, and cross-cultural exchanges in the then-known world.
Continuing This Month
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Winter, Cybele Begs for the Sun’s Return (detail), 1692–93, design by Pierre Mignard; woven at the Gobelins Manufactory, Paris. Wool, silk, and gilt metal-wrapped thread. Courtesy of and © Le Mobilier National. Photo: Lawrence Perquis
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Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV
Through May 1, 2016 | The Getty Center
Glittering monumental tapestries, woven to illuminate the finest details, cloaked the walls of royal residencies and declared the importance of holidays and celebrations in early modern Europe. Louis XIV, France's Sun King, built the French royal collection of tapestries to dizzying heights, favoring this art form that served to embody and proclaim his magnificence. With rare loans from the French state, this exhibition presents extravagant tapestries that evoke the brilliance of the Sun King's court.
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Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1849. Daguerreotype. The J. Paul Getty Museum
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In Focus: Daguerreotypes
Through March 20, 2016 | The Getty Center
Shortly after the daguerreotype process was announced in 1839, it captured the imagination of the public—many of whom had not yet seen a photograph in person. A direct positive image fixed on a sensitized silver-coated plate in a camera obscura, the daguerreotype was popularly described as a "mirror with a memory." The works on view in this exhibition provide a unique vantage point from which to relive the initial shock of photography.
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Pageant Wagons for Shrove Monday (detail), 1837, J. B. Lachmüller. Lithograph. The Getty Research Institute
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The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals
Through March 13, 2016 | The Getty Center
Elaborate artworks made of food were created for royal celebrations and street festivals in early modern Europe. Public celebrations featured large-scale edible monuments made of breads, cheeses, and meats. At court festivals, banquet settings displayed magnificent table sculptures made of sugar, flowers, and fruit. This exhibition features rare books and prints, including early cookbooks and serving manuals that illustrate the methods and materials for making edible monuments.
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1•9•4•7 #61, 1994, Ishiuchi Miyako. Gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © Ishiuchi Miyako
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Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows
Through February 21, 2016 | The Getty Center
A maverick in the history of photography, Ishiuchi Miyako (b. 1947) burst onto the scene in Tokyo during the mid-1970s, at a time when men dominated the field in Japan. Working prodigiously over the last 40 years, she has created an impressive oeuvre and quietly influenced generations of photographers born in the postwar era. This exhibition is the first in the United States to survey Ishiuchi's prolific career and includes photographs, books, and objects from her personal archive.
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Village of Portaria on the Slopes of Mount Pelion, after 1805, Simone Pomardi; watercolor. The Packard Humanities Institute
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Greece's Enchanting Landscape: Watercolors by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi
Through February 15, 2016
| The Getty Villa
Experience the sights of Greece in the early-19th century through the eyes of English antiquarian Edward Dodwell and Italian artist Simone Pomardi. The pair toured Greece during its rule by the Ottoman Empire and produced around 1,000 watercolors and drawings of monuments, ancient sites, and picturesque vistas.
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Talks
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Food service at the papal conclave (detail), 1570. From Bartolomeo Scappi, Opera . . . (Venice, 1570). pl. 21. The Getty Research Institute
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Playing the Scalco: Serving Meals Directly from Renaissance Banquet Literature
Sunday, January 10, 4:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Ken Albala, professor of history at the University of the Pacific and author of over 20 books on food, discusses the large body of cookbooks, banquet guides, and carving manuals of early modern Europe, while sharing his personal experience of organizing and serving meals from them. These books were clearly meant to be used by culinary professionals, but how good was their advice? Free; advance ticket required.
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Edmund de Waal. Photo: Ben McKee
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Edmund de Waal: The White Road
Tuesday, January 12, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Award-winning potter and author Edmund de Waal presents his new book
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession. In a sweeping yet intimate style, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected, and coveted. Free; advance ticket required.
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© The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
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Design, Transform, and Conserve: The Remaking of Sunnylands
Wednesday, January 20, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Sunnylands, the estate of Walter and Leonore Annenberg in Rancho Mirage, California, is a striking example of Midcentury Modern design. Now operated by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, its transformation from private residence to public facility is a masterful adaptive reuse story. This lecture will offer perspectives on the site's adaptation from site managers and program directors, as well as the architect and landscape designer. Free; advance ticket required.
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View of the Parthenon from the Propylaea, Athens, 1805, Simone Pomardi; sepia. The Packard Humanities Institute
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The Acropolis of Athens: The Untold Story
Thursday, January 21, 7:30 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
The Athenian Acropolis annually attracts millions of tourists to marvel at this icon of the ancient past. Historian Thomas Gallant tells the story of the Acropolis after antiquity and its enduring symbolism for Greek identity today, shedding light on entire eras of historical memory that have been erased. Free; advance ticket required.
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The Entry of Alexander into Babylon (detail), about 1665, probably by 1676. After a design by Charles Le Brun. Woven in France at the Gobelins Manufactory. Wool, silk, gilt metal- and silver-wrapped thread. Image courtesy of and © Le Mobilier National. Photo: Lawrence Perquis
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Weaving Gold at the Gobelins: A Colony of Artists in the Services of the Sun King
Saturday, January 23, 4:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Florian Knothe, director of the University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong, examines the meticulous planning and training of workers involved with the production of tapestries at the royal manufactory in Gobelins, France, during the second half of the 17th century. Free; advance ticket required.
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Confectionary, Candy Making, and Ice Molds (detail), Benoît-Louis Prévost after Louis-Jacques Goussier, 1763. From Denis Diderot, ed., Encyclopédie; ou, dictionnaire raisonné . . . , vol. 3 (Paris, 1763), pl. 4. The Getty Research Institute
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Eating the Edifice
Sunday, January 31, 4:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Culinary historian Ivan Day outlines the evolution of edible table art from the early Renaissance to the 19th century in this illustrated lecture. From gilded sugar coins distributed at 15th-century Italian wedding feasts to edible models of Victorian London omnibuses, edible table art has been of interest to people for hundreds of years. Day will introduce the materials, equipment, and molds used by past masters of such edible ephemera. Free; advance ticket required.
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From The Getty Store
Exquisite Tapestries for Your Home
Woven by skilled textile craftsmen exclusively for the Getty, this is a reproduction of one of the magnificent French tapestries in the Museum's collection. Each piece is unique, reflecting the variations in the natural fibers and complexity of weaving miles of cotton into a single tapestry. Two styles of tapestry wall hangings are available, as well as pillows and an elegant tote bag—all woven on jacquard looms similar to those used for the original tapestries.
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Community Partner Exhibition
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Manzanar Street Scene, Spring (detail), 1943. Gelatin silver print (printed 1984). Private collection; courtesy of Photographic Traveling Exhibitions
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Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams
Through February 21 at the Skirball Cultural Center
Featuring a lesser-known dimension of celebrated photographer Ansel Adams' body of work, this exhibition offers insight into a disquieting period in American history through photographs of the Japanese American incarceration camp in Manzanar, California, during World War II.
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