In 1964, while a student in UCLA’s graduate program in painting and sculpture, artist Judy Chicago enrolled in auto-body school—the only woman in a class of 250 men. They were all there to learn how to custom-paint cars with candy-colored lacquer finishes and pinstriped detail work, hallmarks of the hot-rod car culture of Southern California [...]
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Tags: American art, contemporary art, Crosscurrents, feminism, feminist art, Judy Chicago, Judy Gerowitz, Masterpiece of the Week, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA, Question of the Week, women
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Impersonal concrete sprawl. A surfer’s paradise. A dark battleground of grisly crimes. Los Angeles is a regular character in the movies, on TV, in books, and in art, but its identities are as numerous as its roles. The recent conference How Los Angeles Invented the World took up this identity crisis, investigating the flip side [...]
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Tags: Edward Ruscha, Kenneth Turan, L.A. art, L.A. events, Pacific Standard Time, PSTinLA, Richard Schickel, Thom Andersen, Wim Wenders
On October 25, students from Torres High School in Los Angeles flashed their photographic skills at the Getty Center with guidance by acclaimed photographer Eileen Cowin. The visit was part of Community Photoworks, an annual project offered by the Getty Museum’s education department in collaboration with 826LA and L.A. high schools. The project uses the [...]
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Tags: Community Photoworks, Eileen Cowin, high school students, K-12 programs, Narrative Interventions, photographs, school visits, student artwork
Sometimes, only a friend will tell you what they really think. Take the case of artist Ed Kienholz and curator Walter Hopps. Kienholz’s over-life-size assemblage portrait of his friend, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps—the inspiration for our collage meet-up this Saturday—is both homage and sly critique. Created from a modified Bardahl motor oil store display, Hopps [...]
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Tags: Abstract Expressionism, assemblage, collage, Edward Kienholz, George Herms, Masterpiece of the Week, Pacific Standard Time, PSTinLA, Walter Hopps
Did you know that visitors to the Getty Museum are allowed—in fact, encouraged—to draw from the artworks in the galleries and on the grounds? Whether drawing to express yourself, to discover rich patterns or details in art, or to create lasting memories of being with an object or view, drawing trains the hand, eye, and [...]
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Tags: drawing, Drawing from Antiquity, drawing techniques, Family Drawing Hour, Getty Drawing Hour, sketching, Sketching Gallery
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Update! See our Flickr set from the meet-up here! We’re doing something different for our Question of the Week series on the Iris this month: an invitation of the week. Join us at the Getty Center on Saturday, October 29, for a Masterpiece of the Week talk followed by informal collage-making in the Museum Courtyard. [...]
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Tags: art-making, assemblage, collage, Edward Kienholz, free events, George Herms, Saturday evening events, Saturday programs
Where is the line between private and public? Each situation has a different answer—and sometimes many different possible answers. As an example, take this painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec portrays a woman seen from above and behind as she sits in a chair. Her left arm and breast are bared. She gazes into the [...]
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Tags: French art, Getty Museum collection, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Masterpiece of the Week, privacy, prostitution, Question of the Week
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As a new school year begins, we’re excited to launch the third season of Art Together, which invites local students and teachers to visit the Getty Center three times over the course of the year. Following last year’s program, when we welcomed twice as many students as in our first year, we’re preparing for an [...]
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Tags: Art Together, arts education, elementary school visits, K-12 programs, school visits
Did you know that artists used pig bladders to carry paint before tubes were invented, that the gold leaf used to gild paintings and manuscripts was made by pounding a coin into thin sheets, or that 18th-century fashion designers used dolls to transmit the latest styles across national borders? If you’ve ever wondered how the [...]
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Tags: fashion, historic costume designer, Maxwell Barr, paris fashion, rococo dress, runway, style, video
If you visited the Getty Villa during the week of July 25 and thought you overheard people speaking Latin, you weren’t imagining things. That week, we at the Getty Villa were proud to invite a group of 14 high school students to the Museum for our first-ever week-long, semi-immersion Latin course, the Academia Aestiva Latina (Summer [...]
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Tags: Academia Aestiva Latina, high school students, Latin, Latin classes, summer programs
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