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February 16, 2012 |
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Bauhaus Reconsidered: When Collectivity Becomes Form
Thursday February 16, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Today we think of Bauhaus as a historical style, rational and without frills, created during the Weimar Republic in Germany. In this lecture, Niklas Maak, a critic and editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Le Corbusier: The Architect on the Beach, reconsiders Bauhaus culture, viewing it as an approach, rather than style, with relevance for today. Complements the exhibition Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939.
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February 23, 2012 |
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Getty Perspectives: Winter Scenes
Thursday February 23, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik speaks about the vision of winter in modern art as it coursed through the German Romantic (and nationalist) paintings of Caspar David Friedrich to the sublime Swiss vistas of J. M. W. Turner to the stylish Japanese-inflected snowstorms of Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro, and beyond.
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March 11, 2012 |
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Three Brushstrokes: Recreating Roy Lichtenstein's Early Techniques for Painted Outdoor Sculpture
Sunday March 11, 2012
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, 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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March 20, 2012 |
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The Book of Revelation: Its Cultural Impact on Art, Music, and Politics
Tuesday March 20, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Using her new book, Revelations, as a springboard, Elaine Pagels, author and professor of religion at Princeton University, explores the strangest book in the Bible—the Book of Revelation—and shows its enormous impact on art, music, and politics.
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April 12, 2012 |
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The Outer Limits: Marginal Illustrations in Gothic Manuscripts
Thursday April 12, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Whether monstrous, grotesque, parodic, chivalric, or religious in theme, marginal images are considered by Lucy Sandler, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, emerita, at New York University, as deeply chracteristic of the medieval view of the world. Complements the exhibition Gothic Grandeur: Manuscript Illumination, 1200–1350.
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April 19, 2012 |
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Resurrecting the English Country House
Thursday April 19, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In this lecture, Sir Simon Jenkins, Chair of the National Trust of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, explores the importance of engaging visitors with the history and life of the English country house and discusses strategies being employed toward this end at a range of the Trust's most iconic historic houses.
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May 3, 2012 |
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Aide/AIDS-mémoire: Herb Ritts and the Picture of Health
Thursday May 3, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In this talk, Jonathan Katz, director of the Visual Studies Program at the
University at Buffalo, re-situates the work of Herb Ritts in the social and cultural context of the worst years of the AIDS crises. Katz suggests that the importance of Ritts's work stems in large part from his being an openly gay photographer who proffered a utopian dream of impossibly perfect bodies at a time when the impact of AIDS was becoming increasingly visible. Complements the exhibition Herb Ritts, L.A. Style.
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May 16, 2012 |
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Are We All Paparazzi Now?
Wednesday May 16, 2012
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
As the Getty celebrates celebrity photography through the exhibition Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity, we convene a panel of people immersed in the paparazzi culture to consider our conflicted feelings about these photographers and their art, the celebrities who may or may not be unwitting subjects, and our role as consumers of these images.
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February 11, 2012 |
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New Faces from Egypt: Roman Panel Paintings
Saturday February 11, 2012
2 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Ancient Greek and Roman artists often painted directly on portable wooden panels. Known as "panel paintings," such works served a wide variety of purposes, from humble portraits to ambitious narratives. Art historian Thomas F. Mathews shares his research on a recent discovery of more than 60 panel paintings from Egypt and what they reveal about the "Isis and Sarapis" panels in the Getty's collection.
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February 23, 2012 |
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Unearthing Agamemnon's City: The Lower Town of Mycenae
Thursday February 23, 2012
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Investigations at the archaeological site of Mycenae in Greece since 1874 have focused largely on the citadel rather than the surrounding area. Now, Christofilis Maggidis, field director of excavations there, shares recent research about the discovery of a "Lower Town" outside the city walls and the numerous buildings and objects recovered from this preeminent Bronze Age urban center.
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March 1, 2012 |
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The Villa Council Presents "Did the Ancient World Decide the Fate of the Modern World?"
Thursday March 1, 2012
7:30 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Noted archaeologist, classicist, and historian Ian Morris of Stanford University takes a fresh look at what ancient history meant for subsequent world history, comparing global developments from the Ice Age to the 21st century. Morris suggests that we have often looked for explanations of the shape of world history in the wrong places and proposes a new explanation of how the distant past formed the world we lived in. Free; a ticket is required.
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