Luis Alfaro (lower left) and company on a trip to East L.A. eating churros from a cart on Whittier Blvd. |
Churros and Greek Theater in East L.A.
Luis Alfaro, the playwright of Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles opening at the Getty Villa in September, offers a look at his artistic process, which involved bringing the actors to East L.A. for a reading of the play. "My goal as an artist and citizen is not only to tell an interesting new story, but also to diversify the audience that will receive it," he says.
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The Age of Bronze feature article, Getty Magazine | Summer 2015
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Boxing in Bronze
The Terme Boxer, also known as the Boxer at Rest, is one of the world's most famous examples of Hellenistic bronze sculpture.
On loan from Rome, it is one of the highlights of the exhibition
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World—an unprecedented gathering of Hellenistic sculpture on view at the
Getty Center.
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Watch author and sportswriter Gay Talese reflect on the Boxer at Rest »
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Watch author and sportswriter Gay Talese reflect on the Boxer at Rest »
One of a pair of vases (detail), about 1760, made at the Sèvres Manufactory with painted decoration attributed to Charles-Nicolas Dodin. The J. Paul Getty Museum
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Scents of Versailles
How did Louis XIV's court smell? As the Museum gets ready to open Louis Style: French Frames, 1610–1792 in September, Saskia Wilson-Brown of the Institute for Art and Olfaction tells the fascinating story of how Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette were also great patrons of the fledgling perfume industry, whose wares were concocted with ingredients from rose petals to fox lungs.
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Bust of Pope Paul V, 1621, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Marble. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Photo courtesy of Sotheby's
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A New Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini made this marble bust of Pope Paul V in 1621, when the artist was only 23 years old. It now joins one other marble sculpture made by Bernini with his father Pietro, as well as two of Gian Lorenzo's drawings in the Museum's collection. The new sculpture is now on view at the Getty Center.
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Goodbye Petunias: Getty Gardens in the Drought
Whose Values? installation at the Getty Center
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Sharing Your Deepest Fears (and Hopes and Values)
Whose Values?, a collaborative project between Getty Artists Program invitee Barbara Kruger and local high school students, featured the students' artwork and an opportunity for visitors to answer four questions: What do you value? What do you hope for? What do you fear? Justice for whom? We received hundreds of thoughtful answers!
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Watch Barbara Kruger and students introduce the Whose Values? project »
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Watch Barbara Kruger and students introduce the Whose Values? project »
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