Artist Saskia Wilson-Brown Uses Scent as a Creative Medium
Fragrance as art.
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artist-based programs
AUDIO: Myth Not Myth Interview with Curator Kenneth Lapatin
Artist Alan Nakagawa interviews Getty Museum staff about how we come to believe what we believe
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AUDIO: Myth Not Myth Interview with Conservator Marie Svoboda
Artist and conservator in conversation.
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VIDEO: Musician Kojiro Umezaki Performs Music Inspired by the Cave Temples of Dunhuang
A contemporary interpretation of centuries-old Buddhist art and music.
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The Silk Road Ensemble Interprets Dunhuang through Spontaneous Live Music
Centuries-old Buddhist caves inspire contemporary artists.
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VIDEO: Alan Nakagawa on His Art Project “Myth Not Myth”
New interactive sculptures question our relationship with the past.
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AUDIO: Myth Not Myth Interview with Educator Erin Branham
Artist Alan Nakagawa talks to Erin Branham about (mis)perceptions of ancient cultures.
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A Salad Garden Grows at the Getty: An Interview with Julia Sherman of Salad for President
An installation of organic heirloom vegetables and salad greens has sprouted at the Getty.
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Peacocks and Mosaics
An artist teams up with Getty visitors to create a mosaic for the community.
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Watch the Oakes Brothers’ Drawing of the Getty Take Shape, Line by Line
See artist-brothers Ryan and Trevor Oakes live-sketch the Central Garden.
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Museum Visitors Write the Rules of 21st-Century Chivalry
Visitors common-sense (and sometimes hilarious) rules for 21st-century behavior.
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Searching for Murmurs of History
Frank Alvord Perret was a pioneering volcanologist who invented unique devices to measure geologic properties. One of these was a “geophone” that detected subterranean noises by amplifying the rumblings below the surface of the earth.
The photo below shows Perret listening to the whispers of volcanic activity in Campi Flegrei, a volcano located near Mount Vesuvius, which erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79. The archaeological site of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum served as the architectural inspiration for the Getty Villa.
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