events

Question of the Week: Where Is the Line between Private and Public?

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... Read More

Alice Cisternino | September 29, 2011

Marilyn Manson, Luminous Poetry, and British Watercolors

I never expected to witness an evening combining British artists Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Girtin, goth-rocker Marilyn Manson, Ugly Betty, six contemporary American poets,... Read More

Julian Brooks | September 23, 2011

Exploring 18th-Century Fashion, Garment by Garment

Did you know that artists used pig bladders to carry paint before tubes were invented, that the gold leaf used to gild paintings and... Read More

Cathy Carpenter | September 12, 2011

A Living Artifact: “Trojan Women (after Euripides)” Premieres Tonight

Tonight at 8:00 p.m., the Getty Villa becomes a stage for the premiere of Trojan Women (after Euripides). It’s the culmination of years of... Read More

Desiree Zenowich | September 8, 2011

Discovering Latin at the Getty Villa

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,... Read More

Eric Bruehl | September 2, 2011

Countdown to Pacific Standard Time

This morning we launched a new website dedicated to Los Angeles art from 1945 to 1980. Here you can get acquainted with Pacific Standard... Read More

Susan Edwards | August 31, 2011

Nothing Happens, Everything Happens: Perspectives on “Trojan Women (after Euripides)”

“People don’t understand why Trojan Women is such a great play, because they say nothing happens,” says director Anne Bogart, explaining why SITI Company... Read More

Desiree Zenowich | August 29, 2011

SITI Company on “Trojan Women (after Euripides)” at the Getty Villa

SITI company premieres a newly commissioned adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan Women at the Getty Villa on September 8. “We’ve been working for 20 years to... Read More

Desiree Zenowich | August 22, 2011

Reimagining Euripides: A 21st-Century “Trojan Women” at the Getty Villa

First performed over 2,400 years ago, Euripides’ Trojan Women is one of the most enduring and moving of classical dramas—and one of the greatest... Read More

Desiree Zenowich | August 15, 2011

At the Roman Table: Fish Sauce, Sausage-Stuffed Pig, and Good Conversation

On a recent midsummer’s evening, the Getty hosted a program called At the Roman Table: A Culinary Adventure at the Getty Villa. The event... Read More

Kim Sadler | August 2, 2011

The Medieval Clotheshorse: Roger Wieck on the Fashion Revolution of the Middle Ages

Fancy medieval clothes, in manuscripts and real life.

Happy 100th Birthday, John Lautner!

The Los Angeles City Council will vote Friday to declare July 16th “John Lautner Day.” This Saturday would have been the 100th birthday of... Read More

Sarah Sherman | July 13, 2011