Event Series
Art on Screen
EVENT SERIES This series celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories. Halloween at Getty: PREY Screening and Discussion October 25, 2024 Black Nations/Queer Nations?: Screening and Community Discussion June 18, 2024 Screening: Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling February 10, 2024 Araya: Film Screening and Conversation September 16, 2023 Fire SZN October 22, 2022 |
Cocktails with a Curator
EVENT SERIES A series of evenings filled with wonderment as Getty Research Institute curators unveil rare materials from special collections, paired with themed cocktails to surprise and delight. Cocktails with a Curator: Queer Archives June 30, 2024 Cocktails with a Curator: Optical Illusions January 13, 2024 Cocktails with a Curator: Mystical Symbols January 14, 2023 |
Dancers on Film
EVENT SERIES Featuring scholars, visual artists, and choreographers, Dancers on Film screens classic and contemporary films together as a way to explore the dynamic influences of Black dance forms on the moving image. Part of the African American Art History Initiative. Dancers on Film: Maren Hassinger July 18, 2024 Dancers on Film: Maya Deren in Context April 7, 2022 Dancers on Film: Two by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich June 10, 2021 Dancers on Film: Okwui Okpokwasili & devynn emory Oct 21, 2020 |
Artist in Residence Talks
EVENT SERIES Each year, Getty invites an Artist in Residence as part of its Scholars Program annual theme to focus on their current artistic body of work. Bound Ecologies: In Dialogue with Carolina Caycedo May 11, 2023 Unruly Bodies: Artist in Residence Felipe Baeza in Conversation with Laura Gutiérrez May 13, 2023 Gala Porras-Kim: Artist Talk May 13, 2022 Monet Hates Me: Tacita Dean in Conversation with Anne Rana December 8, 2021 Dance of Malaga: A Conversation with Theaster Gates May 8, 2019 ASCENT: A Conversation with Fiona Tan January 10, 2017 |
Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture
EVENT SERIES Sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council, the annual Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture series is dedicated to highlighting leading research in the field of global art history. Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide December 15, 2024 Going Viral in the Renaissance featuring Stephanie Porras Dec 2, 2023 The Secrets We Keep featuring Roland Betancourt Dec 4, 2022 Rainbow Power Dec 12, 2021 Blackness Is in the Making: Materials of the 18th-Century Artist Dec 6, 2020 Why We Need Ruskin Now Dec 10, 2019 Signs of Life: Aspects of Global Performance in the 1970s Dec 4, 2018 |
Imaginaries of LA
EVENT SERIES Imaginaries of LA is a series of conversations between artists and curators that explores what is at stake in the strategies used to represent the city—including its history of segregation, racist city planning, and harmful urban redevelopment policies—and provides a forum for debate about LA's past, present and future. Imaginaries of LA: Michelle Caswell, Laura Pulido, and Kandis Williams September 21, 2022 Imaginaries of LA: Umar Rashid and Sandy Rodriguez November 10, 2021 Imaginaries of LA: Guadalupe Rosales and Pilar Tompkins November 10, 2021 March 18, 2021 Imaginaries of LA: Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers-Szupinska December 10, 2020 |
Beyond the Borders, Beyond the Boundaries
EVENT SERIES Presented by the Getty Research Institute Director's Office, Beyond the Borders, Beyond the Boundaries brings together speakers whose work expands art historical scholarship beyond the intellectual and geographic constraints that have traditionally defined it, provoking new ways of thinking about how practices of inclusion and exclusion have shaped the field. A Black Gaze: Tina Campt and LeRonn Brooks in Conversation June 3, 2021 Unfinished, Fraying: Processes of Exhibition Making April 27, 2021 Hostile Terrain 94: Reflections on Immigration and Public-Facing Anthropology March 31, 2021 Blackness Is in the Making: Materials of the 18th-Century Artist December 6, 2020 |