Born amid the human and physical debris of World War I, Bauhaus is widely hailed as an influential school of architecture and design, but it was much more. Opened in 1919, the school’s approach blended elements of architecture, fine arts and crafts into gesamtkunstwerk (a total work of art), what might now be described as holistic. An …
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Buried by Vesuvius, Treasures from The Villa Dei Papiri, The Getty Villa’s current exhibition, through October 28, 2019, is a legitimate exercise in self-congratulation. It commemorates the vision of its founding benefactor, J. Paul Getty, who wanted to document the achievements of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome and to identify with them on a personal …
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Walking into the darkened rehearsal studio to interview choreographer Lionel Popkin required a bit of navigation with the studio floor strewn with seemingly unrelated objects—a white silk pup tent, lengths of greenery, a stack of books, lanterns, a megaphone, and the other two performers. Barry Brannum is almost invisible, encased in a puffy, purple hooded …
For those of us enamored of the Western European art tradition,The Getty’s current exhibition, Renaissance Nude, is a bonanza. Although non-didactic, it is a thematic presentation utilizing specific works of art to elucidate its thesis that nudity appeared with frequency in works by both Italian and Northern European Renaissance artists. In that sense, it is a curatorial …
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[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Although Los Angeles boasts four art museums with extensive collections of Western European art, their galleries offer few masterpieces. There are some blue chip names dispersed between The Getty, Hammer, Huntington, LACMA, and Norton Simon; however, we seldom …
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Hardly a conventional art museum exhibition, Cave Temples of Dunhuang at The Getty offers a rich, multi-faceted experience incorporating three cave temple replicas, multimedia, 3D viewing and an interpretive exhibition consisting of documents and artifacts, some from The Getty’s collection and others from major museums and libraries around the world. On The Getty plaza, one …
Roman Mosaics Across the Empire Getty Villa / March 30 – September 12, 2016 *** We live in an age of globalization, in which a common culture is shared in many geographical locations while local identities are maintained. The Getty Villa’s current exhibition, Roman Mosaics Across the Empire, testifies to a similarity experienced nearly two thousand years …
It’s always a pleasure to visit the J. Paul Getty Museum on top of the hill overlooking downtown LA and the San Fernando Valley; the views are spectacular, the architecture of modern white and grey buildings is jutting up against the blue sky, the gardens are blooming with flowers. This Monday March 14 the place …
On view until September 6, 2015 There is no question that photography is The Getty’s strongest card. Its collections of historical photographs are without equal. When exhibited, they can be mind blowing. Periodic loan exhibitions dealing with photojournalism and other aspects of contemporary photography have expanded its range; the strength of these exhibitions has been …
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at The Getty Read More »
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