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December 3, 2008 |
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Bohemians in 19th-Century Photography
Wednesday December 3, 2008
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
In this presentation Bodo von Dewitz, curator of photography at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, shares ideas and photographs related to the question of how artists, writers, and musicians created their image as Bohemians in the 19th century as he prepares an exhibition on the topic, which opens in 2010.
This program is free; reservations recommended.
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December 4, 2008 |
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Immigration and the Changing Picture of California
Thursday December 4, 2008
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Bob Sipchen, editor of Sierra magazine, leads a panel discussion on how immigrants have interacted with and shaped the environment in the Golden State since the era documented in early photographs. Complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and Zócalo, a cultural forum for the new L.A. Free; reservations required.
Make reservations on the Web site of Zócalo.
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December 7, 2008 |
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The Landscape Oil Sketch Seen from London
Sunday December 7, 2008
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Christopher Riopelle, curator of paintings after 1800 at the National Gallery in London, offers new insights into the landscape oil sketch tradition based on his ongoing study of works collected in London. Riopelle points out areas of contact and complementarity between paintings in the National Gallery and those in the Getty Museum, and discusses issues of attribution for these works done outdoors. Complements the exhibition Sur le motif: Painting in Nature around 1800.
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December 14, 2008 |
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Conversation: Robert Irwin and Lawrence Weschler
Sunday December 14, 2008
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
New Yorker contributor Lawrence Weschler has been talking with artist Robert Irwin about perception, philosophy, and the destiny of art for thirty years now. On the occasion of the release of Weschler's newly expanded edition of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin, the two will pursue that conversation yet further, including a discussion of the Getty Center's Central Garden.
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January 15, 2009 |
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The Seduction of the Soul the in Duke of Berry's Prayer Books
Thursday January 15, 2009
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
A great patron of religious art, the Duke of Berry was also a pleasure seeker and a sensualist. Thomas Kren, senior curator of manuscripts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, looks at the tension between spirituality and sensuality in the Belles Heures and elsewhere in the duke's manuscripts.
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January 25, 2009 |
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Carleton Watkins and the Element of Time
Sunday January 25, 2009
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Weston Naef, senior curator of photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, traces how Watkins made time itself an element of content in his photographs. Focusing on select photographs, this talk illuminates how Watkins influenced Eadweard Muybridge by laying the groundwork for Muybridge's motion studies through his own multiple views of one subject or location. Complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California.
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January 28, 2009 |
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Gallery 32
Wednesday January 28, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
From 1968 to 1970, Gallery 32 was one of the few art spaces in Los Angeles to exhibit emerging African American artists such as David Hammons, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Timothy Washington, and Emory Douglas. Founded by artist Suzanne Jackson, Gallery 32 followed Charles White's philosophy of positioning art as a vehicle for community activism and social change. Jackson and Saar join Carolyn Peter, curator of the exhibition Gallery 32 and Its Circle at Loyola Marymount University's Laband Art Gallery, to discuss the continuing impact of Gallery 32 in the Los Angeles and African American arts communities.
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February 5, 2009 |
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The Book as Such in the Russian Avant-Garde
Thursday February 5, 2009
9 am
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910—1917, this one-day symposium brings together scholars and artists in fields from art history to literature to explore the Russian avant-garde's revolution of the book. Talks and a roundtable discussion will address the deliberately crude materials, the newly invented poetic language called zaum' ("beyonsense"), and the visual and literary tensions between parodic humor and apocalypse, the primitive and the urban, the sacred and the profane. Speakers will also consider the influence of the Russian avant-garde book on visual poetry and the aesthetics of book production in the later decades of the twentieth century.
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February 15, 2009 |
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Settling Scores with Caravaggio
Sunday February 15, 2009
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
For many today, Baroque art is epitomized by the paintings of Caravaggio and the sculpture of Bernini. But that's not the way most contemporaries saw it. In this lecture, Keith Christiansen, Jayne Wrightsman Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, describes the intensely fought battle for an artistic legacy from which the painters from Bologna came out on top. Complements the exhibition Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1572–1725.
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February 18, 2009 |
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Curator Spotlight Series: Unfinished Paintings: Artists, Collectors, and the Non Finito
Wednesday February 18, 2009
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
The study of unfinished paintings informs the artist, art historian, and conservator in many different, fascinating ways. David Bomford, associate director of Collections, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and former painting conservator, shows striking examples of paintings that were never completed in order to discuss how unfinished paintings can reveal an artists intention, why a painting might have been left unfinished and what constitutes "finish" in painting.
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February 24, 2009 |
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Luisa Roldán's Seville
Tuesday February 24, 2009
1 pm - 5 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Spanish Royal Sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) dominated the world of polychrome sculpture in late 17th-century Spain. Advanced research on Roldán's Seville is the focus of the day. Scholars from a range of disciplines share scholarship on the role of women artists and the relationship between sculptors and painters in Roldán's Seville. Complements the exhibition La Roldana's Royal Commission: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture.
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Art in an Age of Crisis and Decline: New Perspectives on 17th-Century Seville
Tuesday February 24, 2009
6 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
During the 17th century, Seville entered into a protracted period of economic crisis and demographic decline. Paradoxically, this same period represented one of the most glorious eras in the city's cultural history. Richard Kagan, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, highlights those aspects of Sevillian society that helped keep the city's artistic inspiration and creativity intact. Complements the exhibition La Roldana's Royal Commission: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture.
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March 15, 2009 |
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Curator-Artist Dialogue
Sunday March 15, 2009
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Scott Schaefer, senior curator of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and painter Richard Houston discuss why Bolognese Baroque paintings capture their emotions. Complements the exhibition Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725.
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March 19, 2009 |
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Conservation of the Ahichhatragrah-Nagaur Fort in India
Thursday March 19, 2009
7 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Architect Minakshi Jain will discuss how the previously dilapidated Ahichhatragarh-Nagaur Fort in India was dramatically transformed into a stunning model for the conservation of historic sites. A recipient of UNESCOÕs Award for Excellence in Cultural Heritage Conservation, the Ahichhatragarh project was recognized for setting new conservation standards by combining modern scientific methods with traditional building techniques.
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Lectures and Conferences |
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December 4, 2008 |
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Body and Armor: The Image of the Heroic Warrior
Thursday December 4, 2008
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Athenian vases are well known for their depictions of Greece's legendary past, particularly of great mythical battles. Francçois Lissarrague, Directeur d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and Villa Professor for 2008–9, examines the splendid imagery of weapons, armor, and the human body on these vessels and discusses how the images reflected divine origins and helped to create a heroic identity for the Greek aristocrats who owned them.
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January 22, 2009 |
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Commodus: A Gladiator-God Ruling Rome
Thursday January 22, 2009
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
The emperor Commodus is considered one of Rome's "mad monarchs," his presumed insanity attributed to his activities in the arena and self identification with Hercules. Olivier Hekster, author of Commodus: An Emperor at the Crossroads, argues that Commodus' behavior should be seen as an attempt to win the support of soldiers and the common people of Rome—a tactic that was remarkably successful. Senators felt excluded, leading them to distort Commodus' actions in their writings, resulting in his negative reputation.
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February 5, 2009 |
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Athletes, Warriors, Emperors and Gods: Nude Male Statuary in the Roman World
Thursday February 5, 2009
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
The temples and public spaces of the Roman Empire were filled with nude statuary, from depictions of gods and heroes to statues of ordinary individuals. What was it that made nudity the "costume of choice" for the representation of all these figures? Chris Hallett, professor in the departments of history of art and classics at UC Berkeley and author of The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC–AD 300, examines clues left by ancient artists as to how the nudity of these images was meant to be understood.
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