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, 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
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
Since 2008, the antiquities conservation and curatorial departments at the J. Paul Getty Museum have been working with colleagues at the Antikensammlung in Berlin to study and conserve a group of South Italian (Apulian) vases dating to the 4th century B.C. from Berlin’s collection. The group consists of thirteen vases, reportedly discovered in fragments in [...]
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Tags: antiquities conservation, Berlin Antikensammlung, ceramics, collaboration, conservation science, Greek art, vase-painting, X-radiography
The current exhibition Gothic Grandeur abounds with images in the margin. These charming and often humorous additions, called marginalia (Latin for “things in the margins”), were introduced to manuscript illumination during the Gothic era. In the lower border of this French Gothic devotional book, three boys play a board game; in the illuminated initial in [...]
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Tags: games, Gothic art, Gothic Grandeur, illuminated manuscripts, medieval art, Middle Ages, The Manuscript Files
Andy Warhol was asked by the Polaroid Corporation in 1979 to create a series of works promoting its new product—a giant 800-pound camera that produced instant large-scale color photographs almost three feet tall and two feet wide. Warhol produced ten final images, four of them self-portraits, including the one shown here, which is featured in [...]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Facebook, Images of the Artist, Masterpiece of the Week, photographs, Polaroids, Pop Art, self-portraits
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The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale de France are collaborating on the research and conservation treatment of the Berthouville Treasure, the extraordinary Roman silver hoard from the Bibliotheque’s Cabinet des Médailles. Almost one hundred objects arrived at the Getty Villa in December 2010, and technical examination, analysis, and photography of the individual [...]
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Tags: antiquities conservation, Berthouville Treasure, Mercury, silver
Artist Ed Moses opened his studio and shared insights into his creative process last December 18 as part of In Studio, a program we in the Museum’s Education Department organized featuring six artists whose work is included in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents. The following questions grew out of that visit. Where do you [...]
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“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”―Jean Cocteau We’re offering an array of films this weekend in the free screening series Dream a Little Dream: Artists in Film. I’m [...]
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Tags: Blood of a Poet, film series, free events, Jean Cocteau, movies, Saturday evening events, Surrealism, Testament of Orpheus
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