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Mask of the Red Queen, Maya, AD 672. Jadeite, malachite, obsidian, limestone. Museo de Sitio de Palenque "Alberto Ruz L'Huillier," Secretaría de Cultura–INAH. Image © Secretaría de Cultura–INAH. Photo: Michel Zabé / Art Resource, NY |
Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas
September 16, 2017–January 28, 2018 | The Getty Center
This major international loan exhibition of more than 300 masterpieces from Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico traces the development of luxury arts in the Americas from about 1000 BC to the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Golden Kingdoms features extraordinary discoveries from recent excavations, such as the regalia of a powerful priestess from Peru's north coast; exquisite ornaments from Sipán, the richest unlooted tomb in the ancient Americas; and ritual offerings from the sacred precinct of the Aztec Empire. Themes include the artistic exchange of materials and ideas across time and place, unconstrained by today's national boundaries.
Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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
September 16, 2017–February 11, 2018 | The Getty Center
In the tumultuous years after World War II, avant-garde artists in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro responded to the changing world order both ideologically and aesthetically. They rejected figurative and expressive styles in favor of Concrete art, an approach characterized by abstract compositions of geometric shapes and patterns. Making Art Concrete marks the first time these works have been comprehensively studied for both their art-historical and technical innovations. Thirty works from a world-renowned collection of Latin American art are displayed alongside key technical findings, didactic videos, and historical documents.
This exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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This exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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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 |
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930
September 16, 2017–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—and presents photographs, prints, plans, and maps that 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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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 |
Photography in Argentina, 1850–2010: Contradiction and Continuity
September 16, 2017–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 massive European immigrant population, an especially strong middle class, and an almost nonexistent indigenous culture. Comprising 300 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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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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