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May 23, 2012 |
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Getty Perspectives: Endless Summer
Wednesday May 23, 2012
7:30 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Critic and artist Peter Plagens, author of Sunshine Muse, ushers in the warm season with thoughts on the relationship between art and the summer months.
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May 31, 2012 |
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Getty Research Portal™
Thursday May 31, 2012
9 am - 4 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
At this colloquium, the Getty Research Institute launches the Getty Research Portal, a free online search platform that provides global access to digitized art history texts. Speakers discuss the Portal's ability to revolutionize how art historians conduct research by widening availability to rare books, early foundational literature, and important periodicals from libraries across the world.
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Making a Good Death in the Later Middle Ages
Thursday May 31, 2012
7:30 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
As a result of extensive famines, deadly plagues, and interminable wars, the later Middle Ages was haunted by the specter of death. Preachers, poets, playwrights, and artists emphasized death's imminence by developing the theme of memento mori—"remember you will die." Richard Emmerson, dean, School of Arts, Manhattan College, shows how artists employed a variety of literary and iconographic traditions to "make a good death." Complements the exhibition Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well: Images of Death in the Middle Ages.
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June 6, 2012 |
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Three Brushstrokes: Recreating Roy Lichtenstein's Early Techniques for Painted Outdoor Sculpture
Wednesday June 6, 2012
7:30 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Julie Wolfe, associate conservator of decorative arts and sculpture, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Jack Cowart, executive director of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, describe their collaborative research project on Lichtenstein's Three Brushstrokes, which culminated in extensive conservation treatment and complete repainting of the outdoor sculpture now at the Getty Museum.
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June 7, 2012 |
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Approaches to Conserving Modern Architecture in the USA
Thursday June 7, 2012
7 pm - 10 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Join a panel of professionals working in the field of historic preservation as they examine new approaches that look to balance design and conversation principles in the rehabilitation of modern architecture.
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June 10, 2012 |
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The Four-Legged Muse: Horses in Painting, 1500–1770
Sunday June 10, 2012
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Horses have inspired painters to undertake an array of pictorial challenges, from the embodiment of intense emotion to persuasive movement, to remarkable technical mastery in oil, and even profound and intimate truths. Anne Woollett, curator of Paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, considers some of the many ways in which artists have been engaged by the eloquent form of their equine subjects.
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June 21, 2012 |
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A Parade of Parisiennes: Convention and Experimentation in Manet's Portraits of Women
Thursday June 21, 2012
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Leah Lehmbeck, assistant curator at the Norton Simon Museum, examines Édouard Manet's portraits of women he made throughout his career. Manet continually returned to portraiture, depicting everyone from well-heeled socialites and the demimonde to close friends and family.
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July 8, 2012 |
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Gustav Klimt: Drawing as the Guiding Principle
Sunday July 8, 2012
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Marian Bisanz-Prakken, curator of drawings at the Albertina Museum, shows how Klimt, through his obsessive, daily study of the human figure based on observations, developed the defining themes of his art, including love and eros, and life and death. Complements the exhibition Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line.
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July 26, 2012 |
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What Does Heaven Look Like?
Thursday July 26, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
This panel of art historians, scholars of religion, and religious leaders reflects on depictions of death and the afterlife—from the Middle Ages to the present—and what they say about the cultures that create them. Complements the exhibition Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well: Images of Death in the Middle Ages.
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August 16, 2012 |
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Picturing Landscape
Thursday August 16, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and photographer Victoria Sambunaris discuss the ways that photography shapes our perception of landscape. Complements the exhibition In Focus: Picturing Landscape.
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August 30, 2012 |
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From Mozart's Vienna to Freud's Vienna: The Human Emotions in Messerschmidt and Klimt
Thursday August 30, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Two spectacular cultural moments in the history of one city shaped the artistic agendas of Messerschmidt and Klimt as they explored the representation of human emotions. Messerschmidt worked in Mozart's Vienna, and Klimt in Freud's. Larry Wolff, professor of history at NYU, discusses how the cultural values of Vienna during two different eras illuminate their art. Complements the exhibitions Messerschmidt and Modernity and Gustave Klimt: The Magic of Line.
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September 13, 2012 |
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Getty Perspectives: Taryn Simon and Pico Iyer
Thursday September 13, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Photographer Taryn Simon presents A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. For this project, Simon spent four years traveling around the world researching bloodlines and their related stories. The 18 chapters in this work collectively map relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. Author Pico Iyer joins Simon in this discussion about the project, her travels, and local and global identities.
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September 19, 2012 |
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Getty Perspectives: The Age of Insight
Wednesday September 19, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Eric Kandel, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University, outlines our understanding of the cognitive psychological and neurobiological basis of perception, memory, emotion, empathy, and creativity. He examines how cognitive psychology and brain biology have joined to explore how the viewer perceives and responds to art. Kandel illustrates these ideas with portraits by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka. Complements the exhibitions Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line and Messerschmidt and Modernity.
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September 27, 2012 |
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A Visual Life: The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker
Thursday September 27, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Keith Davis, curator of photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, surveys a remarkable career in American photography. For decades, Ray Metzker has been celebrating, exploring, and reinventing the "straight" photographic image. From his elegant early pictures, through his complex Composites series, to his graceful landscapes and whimsical recent cityscapes, Metzker's work represents a uniquely inspiring vision of the potential of photography. Complements the exhibition The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design.
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Lectures and Conferences |
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June 6, 2012 |
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Celebrity Chef Series: Erik Cosselmon (Kokkari: Contemporary Greek Flavors)
Wednesday June 6, 2012
12 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Chef and author Erik Cosselmon speaks about his cookbook, Kokkari: Contemporary Greek Flavors. Cosselmon's wide-ranging Mediterranean repertoire and strong, ingredient-driven style finds full expression in the Greek-inspired menus at San Francisco's Kokkari, listed as one of the San Francisco Chronicle's "Top 100 Restaurants" every year since it opened. Free; a ticket is required.
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June 9, 2012 |
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Flora and Fauna in Pompeii: Environmental Quality Across the Ages
Saturday June 9, 2012
2 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Environmental specialist Mark Walters examines notions of environmental management, such as biodiversity, sustainability and environmental impact, to analyze Pompeii and the Naples area from A.D. 79 to present day. He also identifies various bird species depicted on frescoes and shares recent information about their abundance in Pompeii today.
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June 14, 2012 |
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World Partnerships in Conservation
Thursday June 14, 2012
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Antiquities conservators at the Getty Villa present a behind-the-scenes look at the unique challenges and opportunities in treating masterpieces of ancient art loaned to the Museum for special exhibitions, from re-restoring monumental south Italian vases to conserving a rare hoard of Roman silver vessels and protecting a fifth century B.C. statue from earthquakes. Free; a ticket is required.
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June 21, 2012 |
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Aphrodite's Scent and the Essence of Life
Thursday June 21, 2012
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Archaeologists have recently found remarkable evidence for the production of ancient fragrances on the island of Cyprus. Excavation director Maria Rosaria Belgiorno presents recent finds from the site and explores the origin of perfume, the methods used to produce it, and its inherent connection with Aphrodite. Free; a ticket is required.
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June 27, 2012 |
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Writing a Roman "Whodunnit": An Evening with Lindsey Davis
Wednesday June 27, 2012
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Over the last 20 years, historical novelist Lindsey Davis has written numerous books set in the ancient Roman world, including her popular mystery series featuring Marcus Didius Falco, and her recently published novel Master and God set in the reign of Domitian. In this talk Davis discusses her career, her engagement with the classical world, and the process of creating and sustaining a multi-volume series, and also addresses audience questions.
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