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Photo of David Tudor's Rainforest IV performance in Paris

Digging into David Tudor's Archive

In this episode of the Art + Ideas podcast, Getty president Jim Cuno explores the archives of avant-garde musician David Tudor (1926–1996), which constitutes a complete record of Tudor’s activity as a performer and composer who often incorporated visual elements like sculptures, found objects, video, light circuits into his live electronic work.

45:25 MINS

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums

Gaeta (Fifty Photographs Plus One), 2015, Tacita Dean. 9 hand-printed gloss black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 11 hand-printed matte black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed matte color photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed high-gloss color photographs mounted on dibond, 7 hand-printed Cibachromes, Dimensions vary between 18 x 27 cm / 7-1/16 x 10-5/8 in. and 105 x 157.5 cm / 41-5/16 x 62 in. Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris.

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums

A wide-ranging conversation on the life and practice of a thoughtful and provocative contemporary artist.

55:23

Video: Saving Tutankhamen’s Tomb

A decade of work to preserve one of antiquity’s best-known sites.

10:41

PODCAST: Preserving and Conserving Gunpowder in the Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang discusses his relationship with his unusual medium and his collaboration with GCI scientists to preserve his art.

47:28

PODCAST: Contextualizing the Nude in Renaissance Painting, Sculpture, and Drawing

The curator discusses a groundbreaking exhibition on the nude human figure in Renaissance art.

44:19

PODCAST: The Salk Institute Part 2 – Conservation for the Future

How does the architecture of the Salk affect the science performed there, and how can careful conservation support this work?

55:27

PODCAST: The Salk Institute Part 1 – Founding and Forming

Understanding the special relationship between a scientist and an architect that led to the Salk Institute.

57:19

PODCAST: India & the World with Curator Naman Ahuja

Using objects to tell the long history of our “global village” from the Bronze Age to the present day.

56:19

PODCAST: Funerary Sculpture in Ancient Palmyra

How funerary portraits illuminate cultural exchange in ancient Palmyra.

1:05:59

PODCAST: 20 Years Later, Robert Polidori Reflects on Photographing the Getty Museum

A photographer captures the nearly finished museum on film.

33:31

PODCAST: Julian Stock on Discovering a New Michelangelo

Finding, identifying, and learning from a newly discovered drawing by Michelangelo.

39:03

PODCAST: The Lives of Vincent van Gogh and Édouard Manet

Understanding Édouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh through two deeply personal biographies.

58:32

PODCAST: Rainer Maria Rilke on the Life of August Rodin

Viewing Auguste Rodin’s sculptures through the eyes of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

45:41

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