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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Posted in J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographs, Film, and Video

Havana Mon Amour

By Juvenio L. Guerra | Published: June 6, 2011
Cuban actor Sergio Corrieri in a still from Memories of Underdevelopment

This weekend, we’re screening a four-part film series, Soy Cuba!, that offers a brutal and beautiful look at Cuba through different perspectives in the 1960s (and one from 1959 with Our Man in Havana), a time of great transition and… More»

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Four for Fashion: Free Events, Expensive Outfits

By Annelisa Stephan | Published: June 3, 2011
John Malkovich and Glenn Close look fabulous, act malicious in Dangerous Liaisons. Photo: Photofest

It’s the summer of decadent outfits here at the Getty. Just opened is Fashion in the Middle Ages, which gives you a peek at clothing, real and fantastic, in the pages of manuscripts; continuing is the all-things-Rococo blockbuster Paris: Life… More»

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      differenceetrepetition:

      Medieval methods of entertainment included sad dances and alienation parties.

      Tights are not pants, circa 1400something.


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