Art, Pride, and the Rainbow Flag
In celebration of Pride, we draw on Getty’s collections to highlight inclusion and humanity
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All Posts by Arpad Kovacs
I am an assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
A Brief History of Animals in Photography
Animals as photographic subject.
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Glenn Phillips
“You’re only rewarded by any encounter with an artwork if you get something out of it.” How to approach Werner Herzog.
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Nancy Perloff
“The end is a kind of apotheosis. Maybe that sounds too romantic or spiritual. But the single most remarkable thing is that you lose all sense of time.”
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Anne Woollett
The deep appeal of the imagined landscape.
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Paul Young
“I think he sees Hearsay of the Soul as a poem, and doesn’t want to make a documentary—that was a very deliberate choice. It feels very personal, and that’s what makes it interesting.”
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Simultaneous Viewing and Ray Metzker’s Composites
An exhibition of Metzker’s photographs offers “assembled related moments presented for simultaneous viewing.”
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