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 this video, director Anne Bogart, playwright Jocelyn Clarke, and cast members Ellen Lauren and Leon Ingulsrud discuss [...]
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Tags: Anne Bogart, Euripides, Jocelyn Clarke, Outdoor Classical Theater, SITI Company, Trojan Women (after Euripides), video
It’s a lot of pressure, day after day, holding the same pose. I’ve been standing up, staring at the underside of a ringing bell for years now. I love hanging out with my pal Saint Anthony, but how can I be expected to handle work on a weekend like this? With the Museum—actually all of [...]
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Tags: Getty Museum collection, Getty Museum Pig, humor, video
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How long does it take to install a painting in the Museum, from loading dock to gallery wall? For J.M.W. Turner’s Modern Rome—Campo Vaccino, the answer is seven days: really busy days, with lots of people working together to make it happen. We tagged along and chronicled the week on video. Here’s how the week [...]
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Tags: J.M.W. Turner, Modern Rome, paintings collection, paintings conservation, preparators, Turner, video
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Update—videos of this event have been archived here. The three-day symposium Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century is streaming live this weekend, from Friday March 11 through Sunday March 13. We invite you to join us online or on-site at the Getty Center on Friday and the Museum of [...]
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Tags: art history, contemporary art, Latin America, MOLAA, symposium, video
Andrei Codrescu has some bad news for you. You, Web user, are running out of time. You may already suspect that you work for Mark Zuckerberg and your screens. But did you also know that you are on your way to becoming a body without organs, and from there to a finger that just types? [...]
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Tags: Andrei Codrescu, creativity, Facebook, Getty Perspectives, lectures, video
Just 48 hours before he was pounding percussion onstage at the Getty Center this past weekend, one of the creators of Sounds and Rhythms of Afghanistan (S.A.R.A.) was teaching tabla drumming at a music school in Kabul. But the Afghan-American Angelino is used to that commute. “I feel like an ambassador of music,” said Salar [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, concerts, Music, performances, Sounds and Rhythms of Afghanistan, Sounds of L.A., video
They say the Getty Center never looks as beautiful as it does after the rain. I decided to find out! The day after a week of showers, I went out and filmed a sunny day.
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Tags: Getty time lapse, Getty timelapse, time lapse, video
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The current exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology, challenges our ideas of how we understand the past. More than 70 objects from the Colonial era to the present, including maps, books, photographs, engravings, and contemporary works, explore how artists, archaeologists, and artists have looked through a mirror [...]
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Tags: Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, Khristaan Villela, Mexico, Obsidian Mirror-Travels, video
Question of the Week is a series inspired by our Masterpiece of the Week tours, offered daily at 4:00 p.m. Featuring an open and upbeat discussion among visitors and gallery teachers, the tours feature a new object and pose a new question each week. What is fake? What is real? Who decides? Copies and forgeries [...]
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Tags: Conservation, conservation science, fakes, forgeries, Getty Museum collection, Masterpiece of the Week, Question of the Week, Renaissance, Sculpture, video, wood carving
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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 one charged with the bloody deed that serves as the chilling—and, in this production, off-stage—climax [...]
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Tags: Elektra, Manoel Felciano, Outdoor Classical Theater, Sophocles, video
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