NEW ACQUISITION
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Ávila, Alfredo Boulton, 1943. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
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Alfredo Boulton
The archive of Alfredo Boulton, one of the most important champions of modern art in Latin America, has been acquired by Getty Research Institute. The contents of the archive are fundamental for the understanding of Venezuelan art history as Boulton was the first to generate a comprehensive analysis of the region's art.
Learn more about this acquisition.
VIRTUAL EVENT
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Bronx Gothic: The Oval, Okwui Okpokwasili, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's River to River Festival. Photo by Izzy Zimmerman, 2014
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Dancers on Film: Okwui Okpokwasili & devynn emory
The inaugural program of our Director's Film Series, Dancers on Film, presents multidisciplinary artists Okwui Okpokwasili and devynn emory in conversation with GRI research specialist Kristin Juarez. The conversation explores the artists' latest experiments in dance-making and documentation, and follows a pre-screening of the film
Bronx Gothic, an intimate portrait of Okpokwasili's acclaimed one-woman show of the same name.
Learn more about this virtual event.
Register to attend and access the film pre-screening.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Getty's Research Collections Viewer Offers Digital Access to Vast and Complex Archives
Our new Research Collections Viewer offers a visual way to browse Getty's archival collections. The viewer makes it easier to explore rare primary source material—including artists' papers, prints, and photographs—as well as accompanying contextual information, such as related works by the same artist.
For its initial launch, the viewer features the correspondence of artist Sylvia Sleigh and critic Lawrence Alloway and Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles photo series. More will be added soon. If you have tried the Research Collections Viewer, we'd love to hear how it's working and what you'd like to see next.
Read more on the Getty Iris blog.
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LISTEN
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Frontispiece for Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Willem Piso, 1648. Getty Research Institute, 84-B18691
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Reflections: Idurre Alonso on the Natural History of Brazil
On this episode of our Reflections podcast series, Idurre Alonso, curator of Latin American collections at Getty Research Institute, imagines herself in an idyllic scene illustrated in the frontispiece of
Historia naturalis Brasiliae (Natural History of Brazil), a book written by the Dutch naturalist Willem Piso. The image depicts an Indigenous couple in the classical, conventional poses of Adam and Eve, set amongst the native flora and fauna of coastal South America.
Listen to the podcast.
PUBLICATION
The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785–1865
By Diana Davis
Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism,
The Tastemakers repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished "antiques." Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as traders, makers, and tastemakers.
"Brilliantly original..."—Tom Stammers, Apollo
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NEW FOR RESEARCHERS
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Kassian Cephas, [Relief Sculptures, Exterior Niches, and Balustrade at Prambanan]. Getty Research Institute, 2002.R.40
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Kassian Cephas views of Java
Finding Aid
The 18 albumen prints of Indonesian Buddhist temples at Borobudur and Prambanam were taken by Kassian Cephas, the first professional photographer native to Java. They document the temple at Borobudur as it appeared in 1872 and in 1890–1891, and the Candi Lara Jonggrang temple complex at Prambanan from 1889–1890, before the monuments underwent extensive restoration.
Browse the finding aid.
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