Villa Theater Lab invites performers to work in residence at the Getty Villa for two weeks, workshopping new theater pieces and presenting them in four performances over a single weekend. For the past two weeks, Rogue Artists Ensemble has been putting the final outrageous touches on Songs of Bilitis, inspired by one of the sexiest [...]
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Tags: events, performances, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Villa Theater Lab
The Getty has an active Community Service Team of staff and volunteers who do wonderful things for our city: holiday food and toy drives, 5K and 10K walks and runs for charity, blood drives, clean-ups in local parks and wilderness areas, and more. This coming March 31 we’ll scale new heights as we climb 63 [...]
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Tags: community service, fitness, staff
The big news in the Getty Vocabulary Program is that around 3,150 records in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus with one or more Chinese-language equivalent terms, plus descriptive notes and bibliographic citations in Chinese, are now published online. The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), available free online, is a standard reference of over 250,000 terms [...]
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Tags: AAT, art history, Chile, China, Chinese, collaboration, The Netherlands, Vocabulary Program
A new display case about American artist Gordon Matta-Clark just opened at the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. I selected the items in the small case—which is just past the reception desk of the Research Institute lobby—from the archive of the German art dealer Alfred Schmela. On view are the artist’s instructions for the [...]
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Tags: Alfred Schmela, American art, Getty Research Institute collection, Gordon Matta-Clark, GRI, modern art, Treasures from the Vault
The Getty Research Institute is pleased to announce that the Carlhian records are now available for research. This archive enhances the Research Institute’s holdings in the history of decorative arts. Based in Paris, the Carlhian firm acquired and produced furniture, boiseries or paneling, and wallpaper sets and sold them to clients in Europe, the United States, and [...]
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Tags: archives, Carlhian (Firm), collectors and collecting, Decorative Arts, GRI, special collections, Treasures from the Vault
On January 8 sculptor John Mason opened his studio and shared insights into his creative process with us and a group of eager participants. The event was part of “In Studio,” a program we in the Museum’s Education Department organized featuring six artists whose work was included in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents. The [...]
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Tags: ceramics, In Studio, John Mason, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
We’ve just made it easier to find research resources in the collection of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, one of the world’s largest art libraries. Last week, we launched a restyled and updated interface for the online catalog of the library’s holdings, which include over one million books, periodicals, and auction catalogs, [...]
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Tags: art history, GRI, library catalog, Photo Study Collection, photographs, Research Library, scholarship, technology, Voyager
Artist Larry Bell creates sculptures that play with optical effects, light, and perception. He opened his studio and shared creative insights into his creative process last January 22 as part of “In Studio,” a program we in the Museum’s Education Department organized featuring six artists whose work was included in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, In Studio, Larry Bell, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
Do artworks have an inner life? You might think so when you visit a new exhibition opening today at the Getty Center. The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display presents the life stories of four objects made to serve beauty and function, offering you the chance to examine them closely to understand how they [...]
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Tags: exhibition design, French art, furniture, gallery design, interactive features, iPad, porcelain
As you move through Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A.: Painting and Sculpture, closing this Sunday, the colors of the walls or the unusual angles of the wall panels might not be the first thing you notice. But Museum designers have plotted your journey through the galleries as meticulously as the curators have selected the [...]
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Tags: color, Crosscurrents, exhibition design, gallery design, interior design, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
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