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Colloquia organized by the Research Institute provide forums for scholars, artists, critics, filmmakers, writers, and architects to share research results and receive critical responses. All lectures and most colloquia are open to the public. Workshops, designed for small groups of specialists, are by invitation only.
See the Getty's calendar of public events.
Every year the Research Institute hosts a series of public presentations of work in progress in art history and the humanities. Each presentation is followed by a response and roundtable discussion, also open to interested public. The purpose of the series is to promote discussion of current topics and themes among scholars and students from different universities in the area.
Dissertation Workshops
These workshops bring together advanced doctoral candidates in the history of art and related fields to engage in intensive discussions about their dissertations. Selected through an application process, students present each other's work. Shaping the discussions are Getty staff and university professors with special expertise in the students' areas of research. The workshops take place at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.
Workshops with the Clark Art Institute
The Research Institute collaborates annually with the Clark Art Institute on "Art History and...," a pair of workshops devoted to a problem of timely importance in the field of art history. Selected scholars in residence at the two institutions meet with invited specialists at the Clark every fall and at the Getty Center in the winter. Past workshops were devoted to "Art History and Identity," "Art History and Art Criticism," and "Art History and Biography."
Workshops with the J. Paul Getty Museum
Research Institute staff team with Getty Museum curators to organize a workshop based in the Museum collections and related to the Institute's annual theme. The majority of the workshop takes place in the presence of the art objects under discussion, whether in the galleries or in special viewing sessions. Past workshops have brought together invited guests to examine the replication of bronzes, the act of viewing sculpture, and the artist as artist's muse.
Panel at CAA
The Research Institute contributes a panel to the annual meeting of the College Art Association (CAA). Three or four residential scholars, whose projects bear on the annual theme, present short papers.
The Research Institute organizes colloquia every year, sometimes internationally. At least one major colloquium is shaped by the Institute's theme for that year. Colloquia may also bear on other activities and resources of the Institute, such as its special collections, which include such primary resources as critics' papers, dealer records, artists' archives, documentary photographs, and rare books.
The Research Institute organizes lectures that are often based on its annual theme or its exhibitions. All lectures are open to the public.
Each year the Research Institute presents public screenings of films and videos related to its annual research theme. Screenings are usually followed by discussions with the filmmakers and critics, film historians, actors, or producers.
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