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2024
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Backstage: An Unfurling of the JPC | Beauty & FashionConversation with archivists and historians on the contribution of Black magazines to the fashion and beauty industries
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Halloween at Getty: PREY Screening and DiscussionProducer Jhane Myers (Comanche/Blackfeet) worked closely with the production team to ensure the casting, plot, and language were deeply informed by Indigenous storytellers.
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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024A day of hands-on activities to learn about Southern California's vibrant Native American cultures.
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Sensing the Future: LIVELive performance reimagines works central to the legacy of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
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Cocktails with a Curator: Queer ArchivesGetty Research Institute curator Pietro Rigolo unveils rare material from special collections by queer artists and intellectuals.
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Poetry in the Garden: Miriam's GardenWriter Sesshu Foster reads at the Hyde Park public library in the final event of this reading series.
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Black Nations/Queer Nations?: Screening and Community Discussion The filmmaker in conversation about their 1995 documentary on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora.
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Sunset Boulevard Bus Tour with Josh KunCultural historian Josh Kun leads a unique sonic tour of Sunset Boulevard inspired by Ed Ruscha.
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Julie Mehretu and Gemini G.E.L.The painter reflects on her work and creative relationships at the acclaimed Los Angeles artists' workshop.
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Artists' Things: A Conversation about Everyday Objects and the Paris Art WorldDiscussion with the authors about objects that once belonged to 18th-century artists.
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Radical Robotics: Paula Gaetano Adi's Cosmotechnic ImaginationThe artist premiers her robotic journey across the Andes, while TechnoLatinx hosts an AR/VR lab.
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Bound Ecologies: In Dialogue with Carolina CaycedoA performance and talk by Getty Artist-in-Residence.
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Poetry in the GardenReadings in the Central Garden every Wednesday in May with different speakers. .
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Collecting Mesoamerican Art in the Twentieth Century: Revealing Histories of the International Art MarketSymposium on the complex and clandestine histories behind looted pre-Hispanic art.
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Pop Up/Stand Up: Artists Books and Social Justice
Colette Fu and Beth Thielen discuss their social activism with regard to their pop-up books
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Poetry in the Park: Solar Eclipse
Live reading with poet Alesha Wise at the Arroyo Seco Regional Library
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Mary Kelly's Concentric Pedagogy
A conversation with the artist and her former students on her renowned teaching methodology.
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Behind the Scenes: Printmaking with Gemini G.E.L.
A participatory session on printmaking techniques at the acclaimed artists' workshop.
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On Elegy: Dawoud Bey and LeRonn P. Brooks in Dialogue
The artist joins Getty curator Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks at Arcana for a book signing.
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Screening: Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Feature length documentary chronicling the life and times of internationally celebrated artist Robert Irwin (1928–2023), creator of the Central Garden that lies at the heart of the Getty Center.
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2024
Art history graduate students from across California present their research at this annual event.
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Intimate Addresses: Recording Artists Live
A live podcast recording on the lives of artists like Frida Kahlo and Marcel Duchamp, as told through their private letters.
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Cocktails with a Curator: Optical Illusions
A talk on technology throughout art history, featuring rare archival materials and themed cocktails.
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2023
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Music & Design: Mid-Century Venezuela
Live jazz performance followed by a conversation on Venezuelan intellectual Alfredo Boulton's use of mid-century decor.
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Going Viral in the Renaissance featuring Stephanie Porras
Stephanie Porras, professor of art history at Tulane University, delivers this year's annual Gaehtgens Lecture.
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Site & Sounds: The Florentine Codex at the Getty Center
Musician Lu Coy and others perform music inspired by the Florentine Codex and Nahua culture.
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Indigenous Voices of Mexico in the Digital Age / Voces Indígenas de México en la Era Digital
Celebrating the launch of the Digital Florentine Codex and digital humanities projects on Indigenous languages of Mexico
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LA Activism: The Institute of Cultural Inquiry's AIDS Chronicles (1994–2019)
In partnership with Circa: Queer Histories Festival, this discussion of activism in an LA artist's space features artist Antoinette LaFarge, curator Deborah Cullen-Morales, and Getty Research Institute curator Pietro
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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day
In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, Getty hosts its second annual family event to learn about Southern California's vibrant Native American cultures.
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Araya: Film Screening and Conversation
A 1959 Venezuelan documentary followed by a discussion between curators J. Raúl Guzmán and Idurre Alonso.
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Happy Birthday, Barbara!
Friends honor artist Barbara T. Smith with stories, films, and memories for her 92nd birthday and publication of her memoir.
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Xerox Art Making Workshop
Artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed teaches how to use copy machines, collage, and color to express yourself in this drop-in class.
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Unruly Bodies: Artist in Residence Felipe Baeza in Conversation with Laura Gutiérrez
The annual Artist-in-Residence talk features Brooklyn-based artist Felipe Baeza and Professor Laura Gutiérrez discussing their shared experiences as immigrants.
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Women Artists Experiment with Xerox
A discussion about how women artists have experimented with photocopy in their artistic practices, exploring the work of artists Rita Keegan, Joan Lyons and Barbara T. Smith through the lens of gender, technology, memory and transformation.
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Encounters in Video Art in Latin America
Film screening to celebrate a recent publication by the Getty Research Institute.
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the sound of your voice is home: Yasmine Nasser Diaz in Conversation with Ikram Lakhdhar
A video screening and discussion of the artist's multimedia installation that addresses immigration, diaspora, nostalgia, and rituals of communication.
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2023
Emerging art history scholars from universities across California present their research.
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Cocktails with a Curator: Mystical Symbols
Getty Research Institute curator David Brafman unveils rare material from Special Collections and shares secrets to decoding esoteric symbolism in art history.
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Artist-led Tour: Beatriz Cortez & rafa esparza
Artists Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza lead a walk-through of the exhibition Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat.
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2022
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The Secrets We Keep featuring Roland Betancourt
Roland Betancourt gives the 2022 Gaehtgens Lecture on the visual transmission of secret knowledge in the Byzantine Empire.
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Códice Maya de México: Discovery and Authenticity of the Oldest Maya Codex
A symposium hosted by Cal State LA on the oldest surviving Mesoamerican book.
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Authenticating the Códice Maya de México
Professor Gerardo Gutiérrez discusses the authenticity of the oldest surviving book from the Americas.
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The Multiple Reinventions of the Américas in Context
A symposium on how Europeans constructed ideas of the American continents from 1492 through the 1800s.
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Fire Szn
Artist Francesca Gabbiani and curator Catherine Taft discuss ecofeminism.
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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day
Scholars and artists discuss how the making of art and archives can transform the social and political production of urban space.
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Imaginaries of LA: Michelle Caswell, Laura Pulido, and Kandis Williams
Scholars and artists discuss how the making of art and archives can transform the social and political production of urban space.
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The Polykleitos Problem: Illusions of the Ideal in European Anatomical Images
This talk explores some of the problems confronting early modern anatomists as they tried to define and grasp the human body.
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Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898)
Scholars discuss trade routes between Asia and the Americas.
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Gala Porras-Kim: Artist Talk
Artist Gala Porras-Kim discusses how her work explores the afterlives of museum objects.
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Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940
Charlotte Vignon discusses Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940.
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Collecting Mesoamerican Art, 1940–1968: Forging a Market in the United States and Mexico
The symposium focuses on collecting practices, when Hollywood luminaries and international collectors developed a taste for ancient Mexican art.
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Suzanne Lacy: Between Feminism and Social Practice
Suzanne Lacy presents a brief historical review of her work as well as recent projects.
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Dancers on Film: Maya Deren in Context
James Smalls and Kandis Williams discuss filmmaker Maya Deren.
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The Archival Impulse in Contemporary Black Art
A conversation with Cherise Smith, Tiffany Barber and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw.
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The Body in Pieces: Fragments of the Human Form
Discussing the fragmentation of the body in art.
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Ulysses Jenkins: History of a Video Griot
A discussion of the work of video artist Ulysses Jenkins.
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Under the Skin: Drawing Anatomy
Learn to draw human anatomy.
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The Sun King at Sea: A Conversation on Maritime Art and Galley Slavery
The portrayal of galley slaves in French art.
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2022
The annual Getty Graduate Symposium showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California.
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2021
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Rainbow Power
Maria Loh gives the 2021 Gaehtgens Lecture on the history of the political significance of rainbows.
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Monet Hates Me: Tacita Dean in Conversation with Anne Rana
Artist Tacita Dean finds the unexpected in our archives.
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Meaningless Work, Get To Work: Fluxus Scores with Tashi Wada, Simone Forti, Phoebe Berglund Dance Troupe, and More
An afternoon of experimental art performances.
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Xerography: Women Artists, 1965–1990
A symposium held at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris explores the art of Xeroxing.
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The Poetics of Art and Intervention
Poets and writers discuss their interventions in art and culture.
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Imaginaries of LA: Umar Rashid and Sandy Rodriguez
LA-based artists Umar Rashid and Sandy Rodriguez discuss interweaving histories and cartographies in their representations of the city.
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Desert X 2021—The Film: Preview Screening at the Getty Center
Screening of film about the art exhibition Desert X 2021.
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The Fragment Transformed
Three scholars share their work on the concept of the fragment in contemporary art.
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Fluxus: What's Changed?
Scholars discuss new perspectives on Fluxus.
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The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960–1980
Scholars discuss the anthology The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960–1980
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Nahua Voices on the Conquest of Mexico: "De cómo los españoles conquistaron a la ciudad de México" Book 12, Florentine Codex
A live public reading of Book 12 of the Florentine Codex in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English, describing the conquest of Mexico in 1521
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T.V. to See the Sky
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Human Heritage: Preserving Palmyra, Petra, and Hatra
A conversation with archaeologists on the cultural heritage preservation challenges facing three sites in the Middle East.
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Dancers on Film: Two by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
A filmmaker and a research specialist explore how experiments in filmmaking reimagine the archive of African American history.
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A Black Gaze: Tina Campt and LeRonn Brooks in Conversation
A professor and a curator discuss the idea of a Black gaze in the work of Black contemporary artists.
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Documenting Dissent: L.A. Artists' Protest Photography
A conversation between conservators and curators explores how photography is used to document contemporary and historical events of protest.
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L.A. Graffiti Black Book: Artists in Conversation
Contributing artists to L.A. Graffiti Black Book discuss the volume's impact on their art practices.
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Unfinished, Fraying: Processes of Exhibition Making
A conversation on how exhibitions continue to live on and evolve even after they have closed.
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Hostile Terrain 94: Reflections on Immigration and Public-Facing Anthropology
Jason De León discusses the Undocumented Migration Project, which raises awareness of the plight of Latin American migrants to the US.
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Imaginaries of LA: Guadalupe Rosales and Pilar Tompkins Rivas
An artist and curator discuss how the making of art and archives can transform the social and political production of urban space
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The Arensbergs in Hollywood Discussion Series
Part 2: Hollywood Arensberg: Arriving at the House
A discussion of the new publication Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. |
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The Black Index: Archiving Black Creativity and Resistance
A conversation about the role of libraries and archives in indexing Black creative thought and resistance.
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2021
The annual Getty Graduate Symposium showcased the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California.
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The Black Index: Artists in Conversation
Artists in conversation with scholars on the role of Black artistic practice in our current moment of political and social turmoil.
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2020
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The Arensbergs in Hollywood Discussion Series
Part 1: The Arensbergs in Hollywood
A discussion of the new publication Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. |
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Imaginaries of LA: Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers-Szupinska
A series of conversations between Los Angeles-based artists, urban historians, and curators explore the past, present, and future of the city.
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Blackness Is in the Making: Materials of the 18th-Century Artist
This Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture presents Anne Lafont in conversation with Lyneise Williams, sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council.
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Project 1521 and the Florentine Codex
Artists, writers, and scholars reflected on the continued relevance of the Indigenous knowledge found in the Florentine Codex, an encyclopedic manuscript of 16th century Mexico
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Radical Archive: Preserving Protest Ephemera
A conversation between conservators and curators explored how protest ephemera becomes part of an institutionalized archive.
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Dancers on Film: Okwui Okpokwasili & devynn emory
Artists Okwui Okpokwasili, devynn emory, and GRI research specialist Kristin Juarez explored experiments in dance-making and documentation.
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Niños detenidos: LA Artists respond to the Policy of Family Separation
Director Malona P. Badelt, GRI senior research specialist Kim Richter, and artists rafa esparza, Gala Porras-Kim, and Sandy Rodriguez discussed creative responses to the policy of family separation.
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2020
The second annual Getty Graduate Symposium showcased the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California.
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Iconic Intelligence: How Käthe Kollwitz Made Pictures Talk
Art historian Annette Seeler examined the unique strategy of pictorial communication developed by the renowned early-20th-century printmaker, Käthe Kollwitz.
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2019
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Why We Need Ruskin Now
In this lecture, Tim Barringer examined Victorian-era art critic John Ruskin's discourse on modernity and its relationship to art-historical thinking in the present day.
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Collecting Mexican Art before 1940: A New World of American Antiquities
This symposium investigated the provenance of Mexican antiquities, the role of pre-Hispanic art in the history of the art market, and the formation of international collections and institutions.
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"Good Pieces in Sight": The US Market in Mesoamerican Antiquities circa 1940
This lecture examined changes in the art market and the lives of art dealers Pierre Matisse and Earl Stendahl, who provided the foundations for many pre-Hispanic art collections in American museums today.
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The Creative Impulse: Jae Jarrell and Sylvia Snowden in Conversation
Renowned artists Jae Jarrell and Sylvia Snowden gathered to discuss art making and the creative impulse.
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Film Screening: The Burning Child
Journeying into the heart of Vienna, the filmmaker attempts to solve the riddle of his grandparents' disappearance during the Holocaust.
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1519, the Arrival of Strangers: Indigenous Art and Voices following the Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica
This three-day symposium highlighted the great cultural, historical, and artistic achievements of indigenous peoples of New Spain.
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Bauhaus Looking Forward
As part of Bauhaus at the Getty, Los Angeles- and Berlin-based architects gathered at the A+D Museum to discuss how contemporary architects understand the legacy of the Bauhaus a century after its founding.
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A Colorful Afternoon: Cornelia Funke's Adventures Through the Bauhaus
Children's author Cornelia Funke read her latest story of ghost William Dampier and his explorations through an artistic world of shapes, colors, and materials at the Bauhaus.
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Citizen Lane
Set in Dublin in the early 20th century, this portrait of art collector Hugh Lane tells the story of the establishment of the first public modern art gallery.
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Building an Online Exhibition
The Bauhaus: Building the New Artist user experience designer Ramon Tapales and content strategist and editor Andrew Kersey offered a behind-the-scenes look on Facebook Live, at the online exhibition and the objects that inspired it.
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Photographs and Material Studies: A Closer Look at Bauhaus: Building the New Artist
Gary Fox presented an intimate look, on Facebook Live, at objects featured in this online exhibition as he considered the work of students who studied under the tutelage of the school's masters.
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Bauhaus on Screen
Bauhaus on Screen presented a 90-minute program of black-and-white short films produced at the Bauhaus, followed by a lecture with filmmaker and writer Thomas Tode.
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Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections
Art historian Barbara Furlotti reconstructed the long and often complicated journey of artworks from excavation sites to elite Renaissance collections.
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Dance of Malaga
Chicago based artist Theaster Gates screened his film, Dance of Malaga, followed by a conversation with the Research Institute's deputy director, Andrew Perchuk.
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Getty Scholar Year Symposium: MONUMENTALITY
This symposium addressed Monumentality—its role in nation building, the subversive potential of monument making, and the monumental in building and infrastructure.
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A Tribute in Honor of Lyn Kienholz and John Mason
Friends, family, and colleagues gathered in celebration of the life and work of author and curator Lyn Kienholz and artist John Mason.
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Monumentality and Cosmic Scale
Lucy Lippard joined artists Tacita Dean and Edward Ranney for a discussion about their own engagement with land art after film screenings of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970) and Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of 10 (1977).
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Mary Schmidt Campbell: An American Odyssey
Mary Schmidt Campbell discussed An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden, her biography of the renowned 20th-century African American artist.
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Getty Graduate Symposium
The Getty Research Institute hosted the first annual Getty Graduate Symposium, showcasing the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California.
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2018
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Signs of Life: Aspects of Global Performance in the 1970s
Kellie Jones discussed the global reaches of performance art during the 1970s through the lens of projects by Latin American and African American artists.
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Craft in America: VISIONARIES
World premiere of "VISIONARIES," the newest episode from PBS's award-winning documentary series Craft in America.
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LA Phil Fluxus Festival: Fluxus Learning Event
An illustrated talk, a performance, and a participatory workshop.
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The Diderot Project: Transparency as Metaphor
Ken Botnick discussed his search for a contemporary visual metaphor to Diderot's 18th-century Encyclopédie and to the philosopher's broader call for transparency in society.
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Current Perspectives on Books and Art with Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker discussed the future of books in contemporary culture and artists' essential role in their historical production.
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Looking into the Camera: Amateur Films, Surveillance, and Video Art in Cold War Hungary
Excerpts from Peter Forgacs's Picturesque Epochs and from Gabor Body's Infermental 3 featured family movies and experimentations by underground artists.
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A Conversation on Artists' Books: Barbara T. Smith and Andrea Bowers
Artists Barbara T. Smith and Andrea Bowers discuss the topic of artists' books as it relates to their individual practices.
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Gyula Gazdag and Cold War Hungarian Cinema
Two seminal films by renowned Hungarian film director Gyula Gazdag feature this filmmaker's subtle satire of the regime that ruled Hungary at the time.
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In Our Time: An Evening of Film with David Lamelas
World premiere of David Lamelas's film, In Our Time, featured a discussion with the artist.
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Conversation: Carolee Schneemann on Her Art and Archive
One of the pioneers of 1960s feminist art, discussed the practical and aesthetic aspects of her archive, housed at the Getty Research Institute.
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Provenance Research—A Personal Concern
In this conversation, prominent art historians and researchers examined reasons for tracing the history of an artwork's ownership.
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After Concretism: Audiovisual Experiments in Brazil
This screening featured music, films, and videos produced by Brazilian artists exploring how audiovisual media served as an outlet for experimentation during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Art Dealers, America and the International Art Market, 1880–1930
A symposium on the role of international art dealers in creating the collections, museums, and intellectual culture of the American art world.
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2017
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Indigenous Knowledge and the Making of the Colonial Latin America
This symposium explored how indigenous knowledge of art, architecture, science, medicine, and governance shaped colonial Latin America.
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Cornelia Funke's Journey through the Ancient Americas
Children's author Cornelia Funke read her latest story of ghost William Dampier and his encounters with spirits from the ancient Americas.
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Khipu, Body, Line: A Writing in Space
Artist Cecilia Vicuña, a seminal figure in Latin American art and poetry, discussed her poetic and artistic exploration of indigenous forms of knowledge.
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The Encounters, Utopias, and Experimentation: From Pre-Columbian Tenochtitlan to Contemporary Buenos Aires
This international symposium addressed artistic achievements, urban transformations, and cultural and social innovations.
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The "Concrete" in Poetry and Art
Nancy Perloff and Zanna Gilbert discussed the international movement of concretism with particular emphasis on Brazil.
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Masks and the Uncanny, in Africa and Beyond
Z. S. Strother explored concepts of masking and masquerading using African case studies.
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Teaching and Writing the Art Histories of Latin American Los Angeles
This symposium explored knowledge generated by Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions and its impact on curricula, pedagogy, and future scholarship.
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Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography
A three-week residential course offered an introduction to reading and transcription of handwritten Italian vernacular texts from the late medieval though the early modern periods.
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In Conversation: Frank Gehry and Kurt Forster
Architect Frank Gehry and architectural historian Kurt W. Forster discussed parallels in the architecture of Berlin and Los Angeles.
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Choreography of the City: Hans Scharoun's Philharmonie as a Landscape of the Mind
Architectural historian Kurt W. Forster discussed how the Berlin Philharmonic reconfigures the very notion of a concert hall.
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The Birth of the Museum in Latin America
This symposium explored the histories of art, archaeology, and ethnography museums across Latin America.
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Film Preservation in Latin America: Pasado, Presente, Futuro
Latin American archivists showcase restored films and discuss challenges in maintaining their countries' cinematic legacy.
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"Paper Pear Paper": Charting the Course of Concrete Poetry
Panelists compared the poetic art of Ian Hamilton Finlay to that of his contemporaries in Brazil, Austria, and France.
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Bouchardon and His Contemporaries
Conference explored the diffusion and reception of Bouchardon's oeuvre and the artist's relationships with his contemporaries.
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Designing the Getty Research Institute's First Online Exhibition
A behind-the-scenes perspective on the Getty Research Institute's first online exhibition.
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Provenance: Exposing the Spoils of War
Simon Goodman discussed his book The Orpheus Clock—a fascinating true story about Nazi looting of art and restitution.
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Art on Screen: Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment)
A newly restored 1968 film depicting one man's struggles to adapt to social and political changes following the Cuban Revolution.
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French 18th-Century Artist Travels from Istanbul to Egypt
Peter Louis Bonfitto presented extraordinary proof prints from a neoclassical diplomatic voyage to the Ottoman court on Facebook Live.
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Secrets of a European Neuroarthistory: From the "Photographic" Art of the Chauvet Cave to the Mysterious Appeal of the Mona Lisa
An approach to art that makes use of the latest neuroscientific knowledge.
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Lady Strangford's Travel Account of Crossing the Syrian Desert
Peter Louis Bonfitto and Jane Friedman discussed travel literature in the mid-19th century on Facebook Live.
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Palmyra and Aleppo: Syria's Cultural Heritage in Conflict
A panel of specialists discussed the unfolding consequences of war on historic sites and monuments in Syria and throughout the region.
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An Afternoon Tribute in Honor of David Antin
An afternoon gathering celebrated the life and work of poet, critic, artist, and teacher David Antin.
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Art and the Reformation
International two-day colloquium presented new discoveries and approaches to art and the Reformation.
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The Art of Alchemy Colloquium
The mysterious art of alchemy transformed visual culture from antiquity to the industrial age and its legacy still permeates the world we make today.
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Chemical Rainbows and Liquid Crystal Souls: The Spirit of Alchemy in the History of Art
A mysterious and misunderstood subject which influenced artistic practice and expression from antiquity to the present day.
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ASCENT: A film by Fiona Tan
Over 4000 exceptional photographs depicting Mount Fuji form this filmic experiment balancing documentary and fiction.
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2016
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If Venice Dies
Art historian Salvatore Settis discusses the devastating impact of mass tourism on historic cities like Venice.
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Lectures, Music, Film
A lively array of lectures, music, performances, and films complements the exhibition Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road
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Cornelia Funke's Voyage into the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas
Children's author Cornelia Funke returned for storytelling and book signing.
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Dissonance
This 90-minute screening featured recent video artworks by 15 artists and collectives from Latin America.
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BURDEN
BURDEN is a probing cinematic portrait of Los Angeles artist Chris Burden (1946–2015).
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang: History, Art, and Materiality
International scholars examined the history, artistic practice, spiritual content, and conservation of the Mogao cave temples.
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Dunhuang as Nexus of the Silk Road during the Middle Ages
Professor Victor Mair discusses how Dunhuang figured prominently in linking diverse civilizations across Eurasia.
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Photo Archives V: The Paradigm of Objectivity
This symposium explored the relationship between photographic reproduction technologies, archival practices, and concepts of objectivity.
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The Art of Food
This series of events explores culinary history and practices, the artistic display of food, and its preparation.
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2015
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Looking East, Looking West: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe
Kavita Singh explored the entangled history of politics and style in Mughal painting.
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Edible Delights in History
Culinary experts and Getty curators discussed two Getty exhibitions about the art of food in medieval and early modern Europe..
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Darra Goldstein and The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
Darra Goldstein signed copies of her definitive volume The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets.
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Fit for a King: Louis XIV and the Art of Fashion
Art historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell examined the Sun King's lasting contributions to French fashion as well as his own exquisite taste.
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An Afternoon Adventure with Cornelia Funke
Award-winning children's author Cornelia Funke read from a selection of her best-selling works and spoke about where she finds inspiration.
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Recent Video from Latin America
This 90-minute screening featured recent video and performance artworks by 17 artists and collectives from Latin America.
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Reconsidering Harald Szeemann
This panel explored the work of Swiss curator Harald Szeemann and the interactions between artistic and curatorial practice.
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Visual and Textual Dialogues in Colonial Mexico and Europe: The Florentine Codex
How Nahua contributors and their Spanish interpreter, used images and alphabetic texts to represent their cultures to mixed audiences in Mexico and Europe during the late 16th century was discussed.
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World War I Lecture Series
Bombing the Cathedral of Reims
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Reframing the Future of Film: A Discussion with Tacita Dean, Christopher Nolan, and Kerry Brougher
Tacita Dean and Christopher Nolan, both passionate advocates within their respective fields, discussed the necessary future of film with Kerry Brougher.
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Dance of the Maize God
Film screening and discussion explored ancient Maya life and mythology, as well as the tangled issues involved in the collection and study of looted art.
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2014
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World War I Film Series
J'accuse (1919) and Grand Illusion (La grande illusion) (1937) were screened at the Aero Theatre.
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Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction
This symposium explored the intersections between sculpture and photography.
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Yvonne Rainer Film and Video Screening Schedule
A complete retrospective of Rainer's films screened, including her seven feature films and important shorter works.
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Yvonne Rainer: Two Works
Renowned choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer presented two performances that touched on themes of aging, death, play, and the current socioeconomic situation in America.
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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
This lecture considered the connections between ink paintings, medieval shogunal culture, and Zen Buddhism's doctrinal emphasis on the concept of emptiness.
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Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography
A three-week residential course offered an introduction to reading and transcription of handwritten Italian vernacular texts from the late medieval though the early modern periods.
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Jackson Pollock's Mural: Transition, Context, Afterlife
A day of lively conversation among art historians, scientists, and conservators about the context and legacies of Jackson Pollock's Mural.
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Cornelia Funke Storytelling and Book Signing
Award-winning children's author Cornelia Funke read a selection of her best-selling works and spoke about where she finds inspiration.
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Connecting Seas Lecture Series: "Imagining the Conquest of Mexico" and "Object of Plunder: The Congo through the Centuries"
This lecture series documented how people have crossed seas to discover other cultures, from 16th-century Aztec Mexico to the 19th-century Belgian Congo.
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Transpacific Engagements: Visual Culture of Global Exchange (1781–1869)
Scholarly presentations addressed cultural and artistic exchange in the Pacific region from the late 18th to the early-to-mid-19th centuries.
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2013
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Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview
Tyler Green and Serge Guilbaut discussed Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion's wartime interview with Henri Matisse, which the artist suppressed, and explored the significance of its publication today.
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The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex
New research has revealed the complexity of meanings inherent in the selection of pigments used in the manuscript, providing a fascinating glimpse into a previously hidden symbolic language.
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Art on Screen: A Conversation with Agnès Varda
Using her personal history, relationships, and travels as inspiration, Agnès Varda expands the documentary genre beyond the screen to the gallery and museum.
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Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography
A four-week residential course examined French manuscripts and archival materials from the 13th to the 17th century
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What the Critic Sees: Ada Louise Huxtable and Her Legacy
Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic, examined the career and legacy of Ada Louise Huxtable.
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London and the Emergence of a European Art Market (ca. 1780–1820)
This two-day conference examined the role of London in this developing market by shedding new light on the mechanisms of the art trade that connected major European centers around 1800.
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Smog
Screening of the laconic and moody film from director Franco Rossi that presents a compelling outsider's perspective through two days in the City of Angels.
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The Art of Wealth: The Huntingtons in the Gilded Age
Shelley M. Bennett, former curator and senior research associate at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, speaks about her new book.
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Urban Ambition: Assessing the Evolution of L.A.
This two-day symposium analyzed diverse issues related to L.A.'s layered architectural history, its ongoing evolution, and its future possibilities.
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Why L.A.? An Evening with Hitoshi Abe, Neil Denari, Craig Hodgetts, and Peter Noever
Internationally renowned leaders in the architecture community reflected on how the city's built environment has affected their work.
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Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World
This two-day conference examined the circulation of objects across regions and cultures in the early modern period, addressing the ways in which mobility led to new meanings, uses, and interpretations.
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A "New Friendship between Art and Anthropology": Surrealism in Mexico
This lecture explored the relationship between archaeology, anthropology, and modern art in the avant-garde journal Dyn.
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2012
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Arthur Schnitzler and Vienna 1900
A panel discussion and staged reading of Arthur Schnitzler—Being Jewish focused on the writer's conflicted feelings about his Jewish identity.
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Summer Research Academy: Encounters in World Art History
Research and conversation among eight doctoral students and eight senior scholars from the International Consortium on Art History.
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Getty Research Portal
This colloquium marked the launch of the Getty Research Portal™ of digitized art history texts. Participants discussed the portal's potential to revolutionize how art historians conduct research and its consequences for the digital humanities.
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Artistic Practice in the Ancient World: Sketches, Models, and Pattern Books
This colloquium explored literary texts and material remains in diverse media.
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Fred Zinnemann: Cinema of Resistance
This film series included screenings and conversations about one of Hollywood's legendary directors.
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Thomas Demand's Pacific Sun
This conversation about Thomas Demand's film Pacific Sun explored the intersections of photography and film, art and memory, and aesthetics and technology.
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Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival The Bodacious Buggerrilla: A Reprise Performance and Conversation
A provocative evening reunited original members of the radical street theater troupe, which performed around Los Angeles from the 1960s to the early 1980s.
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The Introduction of Photography as a Practice in Archaeological Documentation since the Late 19th Century
Ortwin Dally discussed photography's status in archaeology as well as its relationship to other forms of visual representation.
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2011
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Frank Gehry and the Los Angeles Art Scene
Frank Gehry united with close collaborators and friends to reflect on their formative years in the Los Angeles art scene.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Assemblage and Politics
Symposium participants discussed how the medium of assemblage sculpture emerged and continues to thrive as a tool of social critique and transformation.
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Artists & Archives: A Pacific Standard Time Symposium
A panel of artists and scholars explored the ways contemporary artists incorporate archives into their work.
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Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century, Part Two
An international group of scholars, curators, museum directors, and artists discussed new approaches to the study and presentation of Latin American art in the 21st century.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: An Evening with De Wain Valentine
Artist De Wain Valentine discussed the production, conservation, and display challenges of his monumental work Gray Column.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Women Curators in Los Angeles
This conversation brought together three pioneering curators to discuss their crucial role in defining West Coast art as well as the paths they followed as gallerists, curators, and art historians.
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Digital Art History: Challenges, Tools, Practical Solutions
Invited speakers from several countries who are experts in the burgeoning field of Digital Humanities gave presentations in Málaga, Spain.
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Taste and the Senses: Aesthetic Formation and Material Experience in Eighteenth-Century France
This symposium explored how Enlightenment thinking about the senses marked a turning point in the reception of art with the creation of a new aesthetic sensibility.
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Exhibiting the Art of India: Dilemmas & Discourses of Display
This roundtable addressed issues surrounding the display of premodern to contemporary Indian art in museums in and outside of the Indian subcontinent.
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Questioning the Standard: New Narratives of Art in Los Angeles
This one-day workshop brought together curators, scholars, and educators working on the Pacific Standard Time region-wide research initiative.
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Scenes of City Life
A rare screening of Yuan Muzhi's Scenes of City Life, a treasure in early Chinese cinema.
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Wu Man in Concert
Wu Man, the world's leading exponent of the pipa—a Chinese lute-like instrument—specially designed this program to complement the exhibition Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China.
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Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century, Part One
An international group of scholars, curators, museum directors, and artists discussed new approaches to the study and presentation of Latin American art in the 21st century.
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The Display of Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1700–1830
This two-day colloquium focused on the history of the picture gallery in eighteenth-century Europe.
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Mesoamerichanics
Artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre explored their approach to reinterpreting the classics of Mesoamerican sculpture.
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Modernism's Ruins: Appropriations of Ancient Mesoamerica
Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker and writer Jesse Lerner discussed the persistence of ancient Mexican visual culture in the modern imagination.
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2010
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Display of Art in Roman Palaces 1550–1750
This conference analyzed patterns of display of art in noble Roman homes from 1550–1750.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: A Conversation with Frederic Tuten and Steve Martin
New York-based novelist Frederic Tuten and actor and author Steve Martin discussed the interchange between contemporary art and fiction and how visual art influences their work.
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Books that Matter for People Who Care
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the David R. Godine publishing house, David Godine gave a lecture about the letterpress books made by his company between 1970 and 1985 and collected by the Getty Research Institute.
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Vivísimo Muerto: Debates on Surrealism in Latin America
This two-day symposium explored the history of surrealist ideas and practices in Latin America.
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Creating Cinematic Worlds: A Conversation with Alex McDowell, Lisa Jackson, and Boris Hars-Tschachotin
This panel discussion explored the process of production design, and examined the essential role of visual research.
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Avant-garde Antics: The Art of Display in Postwar Los Angeles
Getty Research Institute Pacific Standard Time Scholar Lucy Bradnock discussed some of the ways in which the display of art functioned as a distinctive strategy of the Los Angeles avant-garde.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: The Industrialized Gesture
Los Angeles artists Peter Alexander, Helen Pashgian, and De Wain Valentine discussed their pioneering experimentation with industrial processes and materials beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Zoom Out: The Making and Unmaking of the "Orient" through Photography
This symposium examined how the Middle East and North Africa were represented through photography during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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William Krisel, Architect
This documentary blends a range of film sources, including historical footage of the architect at work, new interviews, and conversations.
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Public Art Installations in Philadelphia: Practice and Principle
This lecture explored the history and display of public art in Philadelphia.
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Smith on SmithIn celebration of the Getty Research Institute publication Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular, Patti Smith and friends gathered at the Hammer Museum for a night of film, live music, and remembrance of filmmaker, musicologist, and bohemian Harry Everett Smith.
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2009
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Peripheral Visions: Colonization, Resistance, Representation
The University of Southern California's Thirteenth Annual "Expanding the Visual Field" Graduate Student Symposium sought to explore the role of the visual in articulating the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer.
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Convergence: Where Metadata and Access Meet for Digital Discovery and Delivery
The 2009 OCLC Digital Forum West featured experts from the museum, archival, and library communities discussing current projects and initiatives exploring creation of metadata for digital discovery and delivery.
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Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography
This three-week residential course offered intensive training in the accurate reading and transcription of handwritten Italian vernacular texts from the late Medieval though the early modern periods.
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Greek Art/Roman Eyes: The Reception of Greek Art in the Private Sphere in Ancient Italy
This symposium addressed how Romans and other ancient peoples on the Italian peninsula collected, appreciated, emulated, and displayed the art and culture of Greece
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In Conversation: Barbara Isenberg and Frank Gehry
Author Barbara Isenberg and architect Frank Gehry reflected upon over 20 years of conversations.
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Walls of Algiers: Reconsidering the Colonial Archive
This colloquium examined questions raised by the Getty Research Institute's exhibition Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: 40+ Years with Gemini G.E.L.
Cofounders Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein, and artists John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha discussed the pioneering workshop Gemini G.E.L.
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Civil Rights and African-American History Memorials in the Contemporary Urban South
Architectural historian Dell Upton explored how monuments have been used as a visual language to celebrate the democratic, nonviolent civil rights movement that began in the American South.
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Curator's Choice: A Collection Built by Design,
Wim de Wit, head of the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art, discussed his collecting priorities and showed examples from the Research Institute's rich holdings.
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Architecture and Design: Investigating the Collection
This research lab brought together a group of scholars to explore the Getty Research Institute's extensive architecture and design holdings.
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Malvina Hoffman Papers Research Lab
This research lab explored the Getty Research Institute's Malvina Hoffman papers, a nearly complete archive documenting the life and creative practice of the sculptor Malvina Hoffman.
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Surrealism in Latin America
This workshop explored the critical reception and dissemination of surrealist ideas in Latin America.
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German/American Artistic Exchange during the Cold War
This conference examined the cultural and intellectual exchanges that occurred between the United States and Germany from 1945 to 1989.
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Collecting African American Art in the 21st Century
Alvia Wardlaw, professor of art history and director and curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, discussed new developments in the history of collecting African American art.
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The Book as Such in the Russian Avant-Garde
This symposium brought together scholars and artists to explore the Russian avant-garde's revolutionary experiments with book design.
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Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry
Contemporary experimental poets read Russian Futurist zaum' and their own sound poetry.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Gallery 32
Artist Betye Saar, artist and Gallery 32 founder Suzanne Jackson, and Laband Art Gallery director Carolyn Peter discussed the historic and ongoing impact of Gallery 32.
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2008
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Fluxus Research Lab
This research lab reevaluated received narratives of Fluxus artists and their production and explored new frameworks for the display, access, and preservation of Fluxus art.
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The Image of Peru: History and Art, 1550–1880
This two-day symposium focused on the visual representation of Peru from the colonial period through the 19th century.
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Against Reason: John Lautner and Postwar Architecture
This symposium explored the antirationalist trend in architecture during the second half of the 20th century.
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Cultural Identity and the Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean
This two-day conference explored how ancient peoples expressed their identities by establishing, constructing, or inventing links with other societies that crossed traditional ethnic and geographic lines.
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Documents of an Encounter
This two-day symposium examined a variety of themes related to Edward Curtis's 1914 silent film In the Land of the Head Hunters.
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A Reinvention of Allan Kaprow's Fluids by the LA Art Girls
The Getty Research Institute commissioned the LA Art Girls to produce Overflow, a project conceived as both a historical homage to Kaprow's Fluids and a contemporary investigation of issues raised by the original work such as environmentalism and participation.
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Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945–1975
This symposium explored the postwar interaction between British and American sculptors, critics, curators, and teachers, and examined the particular importance of Anglo-American exchange to the history of postwar sculpture.
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Dissertation Workshop
This workshop provided a small group of advanced graduate students with an opportunity for intensive discussion with each other and with senior professors in the field.
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California Video Screening Series
Organized in association with the exhibition California Video at the J. Paul Getty Museum, this screening series explored alternate perspectives of the diverse history of video art in California.
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Le Corbusier's Toward an Architecture: From the Bildungsroman to the Manifesto
Jean-Louis Cohen discussed Le Corbusier's noted work Toward an Architecture (Vers une architecture), first published in 1923 by Le Corbusier and reissued by the Getty Research Institute in 2007 in a new scholarly translation by John Goodman.
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Art History and the Present
This workshop with the Clark Art Institute addressed what is lost or gained when works of art from the past are interpreted according to present standards and contemporary art according to past precedents.
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The Object in Transition: Contemporary VoicesArtists Robert Gober, Rachel Harrison, Paul McCarthy, and Doris Salcedo discussed the production and conservation of their work with curator Elisabeth Sussman and conservator Christian Scheidemann. |
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The Object in Transition
This conference aimed to foster increased dialogue between art historians, conservators, and artists via presentations of joint research, intensive examination of case studies, and panel discussions.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: African American Avant-Gardes, 1965–1990
This conversation reunited four African American artists, Maren Hassinger, Ulysses Jenkins, Barbara McCullough, and Senga Nengudi, who worked together in the 1970s and 1980s in Los Angeles.
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2007
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Papers on China
This symposium explored questions of art and culture in early modern Europe and Ming and Qing China.
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At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart's Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peoples du monde (1723–1743) and the European Enlightenment
This conference explored the seven-volume folio work that sought to capture the ritual and ceremonial life of all the known religions of the world.
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Old Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
This documentary tells the story of Harry Smith's 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music, which helped launch the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
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A History of Close Radio
Artists John Duncan, Paul McCarthy, Nancy Buchanan, and Paul Vangelisti discussed the history of Close Radio, a weekly series of experimental radio broadcasts for artists, listeners, and political groups, broadcast on Los Angeles station KPFK from 1976 to 1979.
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Craft at the Limits
This conference and panel of artists explored the social and artistic place of craft in the postwar period.
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(Rajikaru!) Experimentations in Japanese Art, 1950–1975
This weekend of free events included a half-day festival, an evening of performances, and a daylong conference that explored critical vanguard art practices in Japan from 1950 to 1975.
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(Rajikaru!) An Evening of Works by Ichiyanagi, Kosugi, Ono, and Shiomi
This program included performances of musical works by Shiomi Mieko, Yoko Ono, Ichiyanagi Toshi, and a special solo appearance by Kosugi Takehisa performing his own works.
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(Rajikaru!) Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art, 1968–1988
This screening series featured work by 31 media artists active in Japan between 1968 and 1988.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Feminist Art in Southern California
This panel brought together artists Eleanor Antin, Barbara Carrasco, Maren Hassinger, Rachel Rosenthal, and Faith Wilding—all of whom made significant contributions to feminist art—to consider the origin and legacy of the movement.
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Dissertation Workshop
This workshop provided a small group of advanced graduate students an opportunity for intensive discussion with each other and senior professors in the field.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Okies Go West
Childhood friends, neighbors, and classmates Jerry McMillan, Ed Ruscha, and Mason Williams discussed their transition from Oklahoma City to the City of Angels, their early careers and the formation of an art scene in Los Angeles.
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Côte à Côte–Coast to Coast: Art and Jazz in France and California
By extending the parameters of a traditional scholarly conference, Côte à Côte explored the relationship between jazz and contemporary art.
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2006
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Celluloid Structures: The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark
This screening and discussion explored Gordon Matta-Clark's artistic process and his deep engagement with time-based work.
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Art History and the Digital World
This forum brought together a group of scholars, artists, librarians, and experts in technology, publishing, and law to explore issues at the intersection of digital technologies and the study of art.
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An Evening of Short Performances
Several short performances showcased work by leading practitioners of avant-garde performance and dance.
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Movement and the Visual Arts
The conference brought together artists and scholars to participate in a day of lectures, dialogues, screenings, and performances that explored moments of intersection between the visual arts, dance, and other forms of performance.
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Reckless Behavior
This program featured recent and newly commissioned pieces of video art that look at "reckless behavior" as both a strategy and a theme.
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Minimalist Jukebox: From Intonation to Collaboration
This event explored key moments of intersection between Minimalist music and other art forms.
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Dissertation Workshop
This workshop provided a small group of advanced graduate students an opportunity for intensive discussion with each other and senior professors in the field.
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A Conversation: Gore Vidal and Thomas Crow
Author Gore Vidal and Thomas Crow, director of the Getty Research Institute, discussed contemporary politics and the continued relevance of antiquity.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Lee Mullican
Curator Henry Hopkins, artists Tony Berlant and Lari Pittman, and Greenwood Press founder Jack Stauffacher discussed the art, teaching, and influence of artist Lee Mullican.
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2004–2005
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Surveying the Border
This program presented some of the best short video works made by artists since the mid-1970s that take the relation between the United States and Mexico as their subject matter.
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Dissertation Workshop
This workshop provided a small group of advanced graduate students an opportunity for intensive discussion with each other and senior professors in the field.
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Activity and Repose: Place, Memory, and Sociality in Chinese and Japanese Gardens
This symposium explored how the garden in China and Japan functions as a nexus of creative individual and social energy.
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Structures and Systems: "An Intercontinental Art World"
Part two of a collaborative conference that examined the radical transformations in art-making practice in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Edmund Teske's Los Angeles
This program of film, spoken word performance, and discussion explored the art of Edmund Teske and his participation in the cultural milieu of Los Angeles.
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Building Music
This program of lectures and performances explored the relationship between music and architecture.
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Structures and Systems: "Minimal Art in the United States"
Part one of a collaborative conference that examined the radical transformations in art-making practice in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dissertation Workshop
This workshop provided a small group of advanced graduate students an opportunity for intensive discussion with each other and senior professors in the field.
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Beauty and Truth for Sale: The Art of the Dealer
This international conference focused on the role of the dealer in the art market.
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2002–2003
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Mural Painting and Conservation in the Americas
This symposium addressed the social, artistic, and political dimensions of murals as well as issues of conservation.
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Feel Like Going Home: Musicians in Print, on Film, and in Concert
This program explored biography as a mode for understanding art.
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: The Late Forties
Museum professionals Walter Hopps, Henry Hopkins, and James Byrnes, and artist Frederick Hammersley discussed the postwar art world in Los Angeles.
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The Invention of Boucher
Thomas Crow, director of the Getty Research Institute, explored the life and work of French Rococo artist François Boucher.
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An Evening with Michael Apted
This event featured clips of the work of filmmaker Michael Apted and a discussion with the director.
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A Conversation with Jack Stauffacher
Renowned printer, typographer, and founder of the Greenwood Press in San Francisco, Jack Stauffacher conversed with award-winning type designer Matthew Carter.
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Making Things, Moving Places: The Work of Artist Glen Seator
This symposium examined a decade of the late artist's work realized in the United States and Europe.
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Harry Smith's Film #18, Mahagonny
A newly preserved four-projector film work was shown in conjunction with a one-day symposium.
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Artists' Last Thoughts
Three noted art historians talked about the reflections of four visual artists at the end of their careers: Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, Paul Cézanne, and Willem de Kooning.
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Visions and Bound-ries
Acclaimed American writers David Antin, Marvin Bell, and Jorie Graham read specially commissioned poems.
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Building Walt Disney Concert Hall
A panel discussion focused on the design and building processes of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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The Gaze: Looking as It Appears in Pictures
Jonathan Miller gave a public lecture in conjunction with the symposium "Frames of Viewing: The Brain, Cognition, and Art."
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Self Portrait of an Other
In this collaborative, mixed-media presentation writer Cees Nooteboom read sections of her new novel while pianist Sarah Rothenberg provided musical accompaniment.
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Seeing Rothko
This symposium explored the act of seeing and the conditions under which Mark Rothko's work would face its audience.
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2000-2001
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Heroes Leave Their Shores: Exile, Loss, and the Dynamics of Artistic Creation
This conference included paper sessions, performances, and several related public events that examined various aspects of exile as a creative, social, and psychological phenomenon.
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David Tudor Symposium
Scholars, musicians, and artists discussed the piano performance and live electronic music of the pioneering American composer David Tudor.
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Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular
This multimedia conference, performance, and website explored the life and work of filmmaker, musicologist, and bohemian Harry Everett Smith.
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Art Matters
Artists and other arts professionals discussed their work and the changing contemporary arts landscape in this series of conversations.
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Local Libraries / Local Knowledge
This program brought together students, teachers, librarians, urban planners, and community activists to create visual representations of neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
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Participation Project: Artists, Communities, and Cultural Citizenship
This project explored the connections between community-based art-making and other kinds of civic engagement.
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