Continuing This Month
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This is a story of a woman who . . ., 1974, Yvonne Rainer. Gelatin silver print. The Getty Research Institute. Photo: Babette Mangolte. © Yvonne Rainer
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Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films
Through October 12, 2014 | The Getty Center
The work of innovative dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer has been foundational across multiple disciplines and movements. This exhibition illustrates her influence through an array of photographs, scores, journals, and posters, as well as recordings of selected passages from Rainer's diaries, revealing a more personal side of the artist.
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72 N. Union Street, Rochester, 1960, Minor White. Gelatin silver print.Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. Reproduced with permission of the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © Trustees of Princeton University
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Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit
Through October 19, 2014 | The Getty Center
Controversial, misunderstood, and sometimes overlooked, Minor White was one of the great photographers of the 20th century. This exhibition highlights the artist's search for spiritual transcendence through photographs teeming with symbolism and metaphorical allusion; expressions of the turmoil and frustration felt by his own closeted homosexuality.
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Top: Central Park Zoo, New York City, 1967, Garry Winograd. Gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © 1984 The Estate of Garry Winograd. Bottom: Central Park Zoo (1967), 2005, Kota Ezawa. Transparency with a light box. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Gift of Kota Ezawa. © Kota Ezawa
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Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection
Through October 19, 2014 | The Getty Center
This exhibition highlights contemporary photographic acquisitions by Loretta Lux, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, and James Welling placed in conversation with prints by Walker Evans, Man Ray, Frederick Sommer, and others, offering visitors the opportunity to appreciate the continuum that exists—sometimes conscious, sometimes serendipitous—between newly acquired works and more historical photographs.
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Initial E: An Equestrian Duel Between a Creditor and a Debtor, about 1290–1310, Michael Lupi de Çandiu. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XIV 6, fol. 169v (detail)
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Chivalry in the Middle Ages
Through November 30, 2014 | The Getty Center
Knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, and daring battles shape our modern understanding of chivalry in the Middle Ages. The manuscripts in this exhibition trace chivalry, first developed as a code of honor that emphasized bravery, loyalty, and generosity for knights at war in the 11th and 12th centuries, through its many manifestations.
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picnic #18, 2004, Masato Seto. Silvery-dye bleach print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council. © Masato Seto
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In Focus: Tokyo
Through December 14, 2014 | The Getty Center
Discover the dense, hyperreal city of Tokyo through the eyes of four contemporary photographers: Mikiko Hara, Daido Moriyama, Shigeichi Nagano, and Masato Seto. Engaging with different aspects of life in Tokyo—from the city's anonymous residents and towering buildings, to its serene parks and frenzied nightlife—the images work together to reflect the complexity of Japanese society and the variety found in Tokyo's urban landscape.
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Theater at the Getty Villa
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SITI Company Ensemble.
Photo: © 2014 Craig Schwartz
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Outdoor Theater Production: Persians by Aeschylus
Thursdays–Saturdays, September 4–27: Tickets on sale now
| The Getty Villa
Directed by Anne Bogart
Created and Performed by SITI Company
Translated by Aaron Poochigian
This emotional story of war, victory, and loss experienced by an imagined Persian court is not only the earliest Greek tragedy to survive, but also the sole surviving play centered on a historic event—the battle of Salamis in 480 B.C. Aeschylus, who fought in the war himself and wrote the play just eight years after, glorifies the Athenian victors, yet humanizes the defeated Persians, emphasizing the universal impact of war on family and community.
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Performances
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Kan Wakan. Photo: Cameron Hopkins
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Saturdays Off the 405: Kan Wakan
Saturday, September 13, 6:00–9:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Los Angeles–based group Kan Wakan arrive with a striking breadth of vision that immediately places them among modern pop's most beguiling and inventive new artists. For this concert they add strings to complement their original and contemporary mash-up of psychedelic soul, electronica, and orchestral pop.
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LECTURES & CONVERSATIONS
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Relief of Darius I (detail), Persepolis. National Museum of Iran, photo by Darafsh Kaviyani, CC-BY-3.0
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Performing Persia: Cultural Exchange and Visual Power in Aeschylus' Persians
Saturday, September 13, 2:00 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
Centered on the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., Aeschylus' play tells of Greek victory over the Persians and the impact on an imagined Persian court. Rebecca Kennedy of Denison University examines the complex historical and dramatic context of this Greek tragedy, considering its potential reception by a diverse ancient audience. Free; a ticket is required.
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: Untitled (Agnus Dei), negative 1998; print about 2007, Mikiko Hara. Chromogenic print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council. © Mikiko Hara
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Tokyo: The Metropolis in the Photographic Imagination
Thursday, September 18, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Examine the turbulent history of Tokyo and the work of some of the most compelling artists who have focused on the life of the city—such as Moriyama Daidō, Kageyama Kōyō, Seto Masato, Hara Mikiko, Nagano Shigeichi, Hayashi Tadahiko, and Ushioda Tokuko—with Samuel C. Morse, professor of the history of art and Asian civilization at Amherst College.
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Su Shi (Dongpo) in a Straw Hat and Sandals (detail), about 1450–1500. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975 (1975.268.39). www.metmuseum.org
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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
Thursday, September 23, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Focusing on the Zen masterpiece
The Gourd and the Catfish (about 1413)— which involved the participation of 32 Zen monks and has been designated a Japanese national treasure—this lecture by Professor Yukio Lippit considers the ways in which the work uses new modes of artistic representation to pictorialize the nonsensical nature of Zen koans—riddles or paradoxical statements that demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning.
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Family
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Photo courtesy of Les Enfans Sans Abri
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Family Festival: Chivalry
Saturday, September 20, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. | The Getty Center
Experience the age of chivalry in this daylong festival celebrating knights in armor, ladies of the court, and all things noble, inspired by the exhibition
Chivalry in the Middle Ages. Listen to tales of King Arthur's Round Table and legendary deeds of great bravery, play medieval games of strategy like young aristocrats, design a family coat of arms, and decorate a goblet for your own royal feast.
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