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About: Desiree Zenowich

I'm associate communications specialist at the Getty Trust, focusing on Museum exhibitions and programs.

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An Interview with the Creative Team behind Euripides’ “Helen” at the Getty Villa

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: August 30, 2012
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“It’s a whole lot of fun to roll up to rehearse at the Getty Villa on a daily basis,” says Maxwell Caulfield, the actor headlining the Getty Villa’s outdoor theater production of Euripides’ Helen, presented by Playwrights’ Arena. In this… More»

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A Living Artifact: “Trojan Women (after Euripides)” Premieres Tonight

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: September 8, 2011
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Tonight at 8:00 p.m., the Getty Villa becomes a stage for the premiere of Trojan Women (after Euripides). It’s the culmination of years of work and refinement, both for SITI Company (presenting the play) and for the team at the… More»

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Nothing Happens, Everything Happens: Perspectives on “Trojan Women (after Euripides)”

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: August 29, 2011
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“People don’t understand why Trojan Women is such a great play, because they say nothing happens,” says director Anne Bogart, explaining why SITI Company chose to adapt the ancient drama for this year’s outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa. “In… More»

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SITI Company on “Trojan Women (after Euripides)” at the Getty Villa

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: August 22, 2011
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SITI company premieres a newly commissioned adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan Women at the Getty Villa on September 8. “We’ve been working for 20 years to do this play,” says Leon Ingulsrud, who helped found the New York-based ensemble in 1991. In… More»

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Reimagining Euripides: A 21st-Century “Trojan Women” at the Getty Villa

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: August 15, 2011
Playwright and dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke and SITI Company director Anne Bogart
Playwright and dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke and SITI Company director Anne Bogart

First performed over 2,400 years ago, Euripides’ Trojan Women is one of the most enduring and moving of classical dramas—and one of the greatest antiwar plays. Beginning September 8, renowned New York-based theater troupe SITI Company premieres a newly commissioned… More»

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

The Photograph That Kicked Herb Ritts’s Career into High Gere

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: August 10, 2011
Richard Gere, Herb Ritts

Today the Getty Museum announced the acquisition of 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts. The acquisition includes photographs of nudes, celebrity portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns. A portrait of Richard Gere as a budding… More»

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Posted in Exhibitions and Installations

¡Sí Cuba! SoCal

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: May 25, 2011
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What is “¡Sí Cuba! SoCal,” you ask? Well, it all started in New York this spring with a multi-venue festival celebrating Cuban culture, called ¡Sí Cuba!. Then, coincidentally, several cultural institutions across Southern California, including we here at the Getty,… More»

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

Serving Up Zero-Calorie Desserts In Our New Online Store

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: September 29, 2010
Dessert Plates featuring the photographs of Jo Ann Callis

Zero-calorie doughnuts and tarts while supplies last at the Museum Store! Get ‘em while they’re hot! Much like other calorie-free foods, these desserts aren’t edible. They’re photographs by Jo Ann Callis imprinted on dessert plates. Callis’s photographs elevate decadent desserts to… More»

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Video: Manoel Felciano on Playing Orestes in “Elektra”

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: September 28, 2010
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Sophocles’ Elektra—which concludes its run at the Getty Villa this Saturday—is the story of a woman’s thirst for revenge: Elektra rages and plots against her mother (and her mother’s lover) for slaying her father. But Elektra’s brother, Orestes, is the… More»

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Video: Pamela Reed on Working with Carey Perloff and Olympia Dukakis

By Desiree Zenowich | Published: September 27, 2010
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Pamela Reed rips into the role of murderous queen Clytemnestra in Sophocles’ Elektra with gusto. She creates a character that reviewers have described as despicable, divalike, suave, snarky, and imperious—in short, a perfect and delicious villain. In this video, Reed… More»

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      Grab a glass (and some for your friends), it’s International Beer Day! 

      "Welcome to my house—put me to your lips and drink me dry—don’t take contentment away.” —Inscription on Filigrana Beaker

      Ewer, Chinese porcelain 1662 - 1722, French mounts 1700 - 1710. J. Paul Getty Museum.
      Goblet with the Arms of Liechtenberg, 1500 - 1530, Probably Bohemian. J. Paul Getty Museum.
      Ice-glass Beaker, late 1500s or early 1600s, Dutch. J. Paul Getty Museum.
      Covered Filigrana Beaker (Stangenglas),1550-1600, mount about 1710-1712. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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