Opening This Month
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Cupid Carving a Bow from Hercules's Club, 1745–50, Edme Bouchardon. Marble. Musée du Louvre, Département des Sculptures, Paris. Image © Musée du Louvre / Hervé Lewandowski
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Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment
January 10–April 2, 2017 | The Getty Center
One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of 18th-century France, Edme Bouchardon was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism. Celebrated as both a sculptor and draftsman, he created some of the best-known images of the age of Louis XV. This exhibition, developed in partnership with the Louvre, is a testament to the remarkable variety of his work—copies after the antique, subjects of history and mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains, and tombs—and to his masterful techniques in drawings, sculptures, medals, and prints.
This exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Musée du Louvre. The Los Angeles presentation is supported by City National Bank.
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Continuing This Month
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The Entire Earthly, Natural, and Dark Man, 1723. From Johann Georg Gichtel, Theosophia Practica [Practical Theosophy] (Leiden, 1723), pl. before p. 25. 2611-134
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The Art of Alchemy
Through February 12, 2017 | The Getty Center
Alchemy was known as the Great Art during the Middle Ages, because it aimed to replicate the actions of nature through chemistry. Alchemists' efforts to discover the way the world is made have had an enduring impact on artistic practice and expression around the globe. Inventions born from alchemical laboratories include metal alloys for sculpture and ornament, oil paints, effects in glassmaking, and even the chemical baths of photography. Discover how the mysterious art of alchemy transformed visual culture from antiquity to the Industrial Age in this exhibition.
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Untitled from Television Political Mosaics, 1968–1969, 1968–69, Donald R. Blumberg. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Donald R. and Grace Blumberg. © Donald Blumberg
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Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media
Through April 30, 2017 | The Getty Center
Experience the many ways in which artists have responded to printed and televised news over the past 50 years. This exhibition demonstrates how artists have used photography and video to comment on the role the news media play in determining the meaning of images and shaping people's perceptions of current events. Over 200 objects are featured, including works by Donald Blumberg, Omer Fast, Robert Heinecken, and Catherine Opie.
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Susannah Hoare, Viscountess Dungarvan, later Countess of Ailesbury, about 1750–60, William Hoare. Pastel on paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum
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Fashionable Likeness: Pastel Portraits in 18th-Century Britain
Through May 7, 2017 | The Getty Center
This focused installation explores the world of pastel portraiture in 18th-century Britain through works from the Museum's collection and two exceptional private loans. Wealthy patrons commissioned portraits to emphasize their social status and often displayed the latest fashions. The luminous pastel medium effectively captured sitters' elaborate hairstyles, sumptuous clothing, and fleeting expressions, yielding some of the most evocative and spirited art of the time.
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Subterranean room in the House of Amphitrite, Bulla Regia, Tunisia. Courtesy of the Getty Conservation Institute. Photo: Scott S. Warren
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Roman Mosaics across the Empire
Through January 1, 2018
| The Getty Villa
Mosaics from the 2nd through the 6th centuries A.D. from throughout the Roman Empire are on display in this exhibition. Discover different techniques and motifs used in Italy, North Africa, Southern France, Turkey, and Syria through the intricate patterns and figural scenes created by setting small pieces of stone or glass, called tesserae, into floors and walls. Recovered from various archeological contexts, they provide a glimpse into the richly embellished architecture of the ancient world.
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FILM
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Still from ASCENT, 2016. Courtesy Fiona Tan and Antithesis Films. Photo: Collection of Izu Photo Museum
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ASCENT : A film by Fiona Tan
Tuesday, January 10, 7:00 p.m.
Through a gray blanket of cloud, the contours of a mountain can be barely discerned. This is Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces and of immeasurable cultural and symbolic significance. Exceptional and diverse photographs from the past 150 years form the basis for this art-film project made entirely with stills; a filmic experiment balancing documentary and fiction. North American premiere. Fiona Tan is the 2016–2017 Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute. Free; advance ticket required.
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Talks
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Marble statue of Catherine II in the guise of Minerva (1789–90), by Fedot Shubin
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The Empress of Art
Sunday, January 15, 3:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Susan Jaques, author of
The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia, joins Edward Goldman, host of KCRW's "ArtTalk," to discuss the empress's art collecting and its impact on Russia, as well as on museums and culture far beyond her nation's borders. Free; advance ticket required.
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Alchemists "imbibing" (infusing substance with spirit). The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. The Getty Research Institute, 950053
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Chemical Rainbows and Liquid Crystal Souls: The Spirit of Alchemy in the History of Art
Wednesday, January 18, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Explore the mystifying subject of alchemy with Getty Research Institute curator David Brafman. Bonding science and spirituality, alchemy was known as the Great Art in medieval Europe, and simply called "The Art" in Islam. Alchemists may be notorious for attempting to make synthetic gold, but their goals were far more ambitious: to harness the powers of creation and transform natural matter into the man-made materials of synthetic artifice. Free; advance ticket required.
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Related Event:
The Art of Alchemy Colloquium Thursday, January 19, 2017, from 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
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A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast, 1767, Claude-Joseph Vernet. The J Paul Getty Museum
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Shipwrecks and Sunsets: Learning to Look with 18th-Century Eyes
Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
How can we gain insight into the emotions of interest, pleasure, boredom, or fear that 18th-century viewers experienced when looking at contemporary painting? Heather MacDonald of the Getty Foundation, an expert on 18th-century European painting, explores the histories of several paintings in the Getty Museum in order to better understand how they were seen and appreciated by their original owners and viewers. Free; advance ticket required.
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Provenance: Exposing the Spoils of War
Wednesday, January 25, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Simon Goodman discusses his book,
The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis (2015)—a fascinating true story that is at once a family history, a glimpse of Jewish life in Germany before the Holocaust, an exposé of the Nazi looting machine, and a revealing study of the evolving attitudes toward restitution of looted art in the wake of World War II. Free; advance ticket required.
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