Artist Hirokazu Kosaka’s much anticipated presentation of “Kalpa” on January 20 at the Getty Center was an experimental performance spectacular, featuring hundreds of spools of thread being pulled in the mouths of Butoh dancers, and a shining spotlight that illuminated their path down the Tram Arrival Plaza. Originally, the performance was also supposed to include [...]
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Tags: Central Garden, Outdoor, Pacific Standard Time, performance art
Dancers, a World War II searchlight, and 400 spools of thread combined to turn the Getty Center’s Arrival Plaza into a performative installation last Friday night. Hirokazu Kosaka’s Kalpa was part of the Pacific Standard Time Public Art Festival, an 11-day celebration of performance art in public spaces. Because of the setting, it took hours [...]
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Tags: Hirokazu Kosaka, Kalpa, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, video
A friend asked me this recently, figuring I’d be an expert since I’ve worked here for a few years now. While I see kids and their families in action here all the time, I’d never experienced the Getty with them first-hand. So I asked some real experts—my colleagues with young children—and their collective advice was [...]
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Tags: Family Programs, Family Room, kids, picnics, tram
Twin brothers and artists Ryan and Trevor Oakes have similar interests, which isn’t really unusual for twins. However, the brothers have taken their mutual fascination with vision, light, space, and depth to a whole new level, and have built their careers on exploring these concepts through drawing. Through December 24, the brothers are bringing their [...]
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Tags: artist-based programs, Central Garden, contemporary art, drawing techniques, Oakes brothers, perspec
Traffic is legendary in Los Angeles, where our freeways are prominent markers of the landscape. The Getty Center has a special relationship with the freeway, as it sits by the banks of Interstate 405. Visitors traveling up to the Getty Center on our tram watch as 10 lanes of cars speed (or inch) by below. [...]
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Tags: Getty Center construction, Getty Center Drive, I-405, public transportation, traffic
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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
Here’s an artwork from our collection that makes me squeal…with terror! The multicolored demons attacking my pal Saint Anthony are hooves down the scariest creatures around. The blue devil is a total gangster. He bullied his way onto our new audio tour Demons, Angels, & Monsters: The Supernatural in Art. My young friends Benjamin, Bryn, [...]
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Tags: demons, devils, Getty Museum Pig, Halloween, medieval art, video
Saturdays Off the 405 wrapped up its 2011 season last Saturday, October 15, but it lives on thanks to you who tweeted, Flickr’d and YouTubed it. Here, highlights! [View the story "Saturdays Off the 405 | 2011 Highlights" on Storify]
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Tags: Best Coast, concerts, Dengue Fever, free events, Saturday evening events, Saturday programs, Saturdays Off the 405
In the ocean, a crosscurrent runs across the main flow, stirring things up. Similarly, you can see different artistic movements, crossing each other from a variety of directions, in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970, which opens Saturday at the Getty Center. The exhibition features more than 70 objects [...]
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Tags: Crosscurrents, De Wain Valentine, Helen Lundeberg, John Mason, Mary Corse, Norman Zammitt, Pacific Standard Time, PSTinLA
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
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