OPENING THIS MONTH
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Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and a Female Saint in a Landscape, about 1501, Giovanni Bellini, tempera and oil on wood panel. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. Photo credit: Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali / Art Resource, NY
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Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice
October 10, 2017–January 14, 2018 | The Getty Center
Giovanni Bellini's evocative landscapes are as much the protagonists of his paintings as are the religious subjects that dominated fifteenth-century Italian art. One of the most influential painters of the Renaissance, he worked in and around Venice, and while his landscapes are highly metaphorical, they also accurately reflect the region's topography and natural light. Created for sophisticated patrons, Bellini's works present characters and symbols from familiar sacred stories, set in a dimension of reality and lived experience to a degree unprecedented in the history of Italian painting.
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Saint Jerome (detail), about 1528–1530, Master of the Getty Epistles. Tempera colors and gold paint on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig | 15 (83.MA.64), fol. 1v
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Sacred Landscapes: Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts
October 10, 2017–January 14, 2018 | The Getty Center
Green spaces have a universal appeal. Nature's majesty is evident in gardens, farmlands, and especially the untamed wilderness. In Renaissance Europe, many people looked to greenery within the walls of the city and beyond for inspiration and to guide their contemplation of the perceived divine order of creation. Manuscript illuminators were among those who carefully studied the raw elements of nature—such as rocks, trees, flowers, waterways, mountains, and even atmosphere—and incorporated these into luxurious objects of personal or communal devotion.
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CONTINUING THIS MONTH
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Still Life Blue Guitar 4th April 1982, 1982, David Hockney. Composite Polaroid. 24 1/2 x 30 in. Courtesy of the artist. © David Hockney. Photo credit: Richard Schmidt
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney
Through November 26, 2017 | The Getty Center
In celebration of David Hockney's eightieth birthday and his long and continuing artistic career, the Getty Museum presents a two-gallery focused exhibition featuring the artist's highly creative self-portraits and photographs.
Photographs displays a number of Polaroid composites and photo collages that mark Hockney's photographic explorations of the 1980s.
Self-Portraits features a selection of drawn, painted, and photographic self-portraits made over the past sixty-five years, from the 1950s when he was a teenage art student through to a selection of iPad studies made in 2012.
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The City of the Future: Hundred Story City in Neo-American Style, 1929. Francisco Mujica (Mexican, 1899–1979). From Francisco Mujica, History of the Skyscraper (Paris: Archaeology & Architecture Press, 1929), pl. 134. The Getty Research Institute, 88-B34645
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The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930
Through January 7, 2018 | The Getty Center
Over the course of a century of rapid urban growth, sociopolitical upheavals and cultural transitions reshaped the architectural landscapes of major cities in Latin America. The exhibition focuses on six capitals: Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile. Photographs, prints, plans, and maps depict the urban impact of key societal and economic transformations, including the emergence of a bourgeois elite, extensive infrastructure projects, rapid industrialization, and commercialization.
This exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Serpent Labret with Articulated Tongue, 1300–1521, Aztec culture, gold. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, 2015 Benefit Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2016 (2016.64). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas
Through January 28, 2018 | The Getty Center
Golden Kingdoms, a major international loan exhibition featuring more than 300 masterpieces, traces the development of luxury arts in the Americas from about 1000 BC to the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Recent investigation into the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions under which such works were produced and circulated has led to new ways of thinking about materials, luxury, and the visual arts from a global perspective.
This exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Malambistas I / Malambo Dancers I from Revista Barzón (Barzón Magazine), negative 2014; print 2016, Gustavo Di Mario. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of and © Gustavo Di Mario
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Photography in Argentina, 1850–2010: Contradiction and Continuity
Through January 28, 2018 | The Getty Center
From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina was perceived as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a strong middle class, a large European-immigrant population, and an almost nonexistent indigenous culture. This perception differs greatly from the way that other Latin American countries have been viewed, and underlines the difference between Argentina's colonial and postcolonial process and those of its neighbors. Comprising three hundred works by sixty artists, this exhibition examines crucial periods and aesthetic movements in which photography had a critical role, producing—and, at times, dismantling—national constructions, utopian visions, and avant-garde artistic trends.
This exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Alternado 2 / Alternated 2, 1957, Hermelindo Fiaminghi. Alkyd on hardboard. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Promised gift to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Catalina Cisneros-Santiago. © Estate of Hermelindo Fiaminghi
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Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Through February 11, 2018 | The Getty Center
Combining art historical and scientific analysis, experts from the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Research Institute have collaborated with the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to examine the formal strategies and material choices of avant-garde painters and sculptors associated with the Concrete art movement in Argentina and Brazil. These works of geometric abstraction, created between 1946 and 1962, are presented alongside information on the way artists pioneered new techniques and materials.
This exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is the latest collaborative effort from arts institutions across Southern California. Supported by grants from the Getty Foundation, the initiative involves more than seventy cultural institutions from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, and from San Diego to Santa Barbara.
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Student Arts Contest
Ends January 15, 2018
Students from public middle schools and high schools in LA County are invited to enter the Student Arts Contest! Choose a word or phrase to fill in the blank of this sentence: LA is ___. Am I LA? Then submit an original artistic work related to your answer in the category of visual arts, performing arts, creative writing, or film and media art. Express yourself, win a college scholarship, or have your work displayed!
This contest is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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PERFORMANCES
Off the 405 x Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA—Helado Negro
Saturday, October 14, 1:00–9:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Celebrate Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at a special extended Off the 405 event! This afternoon to evening program features artist interventions, a program of rare experimental short films, curator-led tours, and DJ sets, leading up to a 7:00 p.m. concert featuring the mesmerizing cosmic melodies of Ecuadorian-American electronic musician Helado Negro.
This performance is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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See What You Mean
Saturday, October 28, 6:00–9:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Experience an evening of creative acts and playful insurrections as an array of artists, musicians, and performers joins forces with Getty artist-in-residence Harry Gamboa, Jr. to celebrate the diverse communities and voices of Los Angeles.
This performance is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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TALKS
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A marble sculpture at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in New Zealand lies damaged from a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in 2011.
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When the Inevitable Happens...Again: Protecting Museum Collections from Earthquake Damage
Saturday, October 7, 2:00 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
When floors jolt, walls crack, and buildings sway, what happens to priceless works of art? Former head of antiquities conservation Jerry Podany discusses how the Getty Museum has prepared for inevitable, yet unpredictable, earthquakes and championed the efforts of seismic damage mitigation for museum collections worldwide.
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Open, Augusto de Campos (b. 1931) and Julio Plaza (1938–2003), 1969. From Poemobiles (São Paulo, 1974). The Getty Research Institute, 92-B21581. Courtesy Augusto de Campos. Courtesy Anabela Plaza
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The "Concrete" in Poetry and Art
Tuesday, October 17, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
This conversation between Getty Research Institute (GRI) curators Nancy Perloff and Zanna Gilbert brings two Getty exhibitions into dialogue:
Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space (recently on view at the GRI) and
Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum through February 11, 2018.
Perloff and Gilbert explore the subtle relationship between concrete poetry and art, considering the international movement of concretism with particular emphasis on Brazil. They will be joined by Rachel Price (Princeton University), author of
The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain, 1868–1968.
This talk is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Climate Change and the Shaping of Asia
Thursday, October 19, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Peter Frankopan, professor of global history and director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University, looks at climate change in Asia over the last two millennia to assess how we can revolutionize the way we understand the past and learn for the future. Frankopan is in Los Angeles as the Getty President's International Council Scholar.
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Portrait bust of Pericles (detail), 2nd century, Roman copy of an earlier Greek original with the name inscribed in Greek. Marble. British Museum 1805,0703.91, © The Trustees of the British Museum 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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Making Athens Great (Again?): Modern Lessons from the Age of Pericles
Wednesday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
Can an examination of ancient Greece and the career of Athens' greatest statesman, Pericles son of Xanthippos, tell us anything about current American politics? Professor Loren Samons of Boston University suggests that Athenian history helps explain contemporary events and may even allow us to predict the future of democracy in the West.
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The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark, 1613, Jan Brueghel the Elder. Oil on panel. The J. Paul Getty Museum
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The Power of Personality: Jan Brueghel the Elder
Sunday, October 29, 3:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625) was a key figure in early seventeenth-century Flemish painting and one of its most charismatic characters. His
Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark (1613), an exquisite and richly detailed celebration of the diversity of the animal kingdom, has captivated viewers for centuries. In this illustrated talk, paintings curator Anne Woollett situates the Getty Museum's exceptional holdings of one of Antwerp's most famous and influential painters, considering the contexts of fame, adversity, humor, and artistic friendships.
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COURSES
Drawing from the Masters: Shifting Perspectives
Sunday, October 1, 3:30–5:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 15, 3:30–5:30 p.m.
| The Getty Center
Enjoy the tradition of sketching from original works of art every first and third Sunday of the month at the Getty Center. In October, experiment using multiple perspectives and composites to create unique drawing compositions with artist Marissa Magdelena. Complements the exhibition
Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney. All experience levels welcome. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m. at the Information Desk. This is a free program.
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Artist at Work: Making Monsters with Mary Doodles
Saturday, October 7, 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 14, 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
Turn a squiggle into a monster! Join illustrator and You Tube artist Mary Doodles for an all-ages monster drawing workshop. Use drawing materials, the Getty Villa's collection, and your imagination to create scary, friendly, or silly monsters. This free, drop-in program is in collaboration with The Big Draw LA.
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Left panel from Pair of Peacocks, A.D. 400–600, possibly Emesa, Syria, stone. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Gift of William Wahler
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Drawing from Antiquity: Mosaics
Saturday, October 21, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
Using the exhibition
Roman Mosaics Across the Empire as inspiration, discover the process of mosaic making in antiquity by studying the layers of stratigraphy from foundation to tesserae. Create a plan for a mosaic by drawing preliminary sketches, just like an ancient artist would. Supplies are provided, and all skill levels are welcome. This is a free program. Sign-up begins at 10:45 a.m. at the Tour Meeting Place.
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FAMILY
Family Festival
Saturday, October 21, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Explore the art and culture of Latin America through a day of interactive fun! Make your own golden pre-Columbian treasures in a hands-on workshop, be regaled by the dance, music, and stories of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca empires, and delve into the mysteries of Argentina through the magic of tango. Complements the exhibitions
Photography in Argentina, 1850–2010: Contradiction and Continuity, and
Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy In the Ancient Americas.
This event is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time:
LA/LA.
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