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June 25, 2013 |
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What the Critic Sees: Ada Louise Huxtable and Her Legacy
Tuesday June 25, 2013
7 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic, examines the legacy of Ada Louise Huxtable, a critic with a wide subject range and an even wider influence whose work covered politics, real estate, preservation, and urban planning. Hawthorne's talk will focus on two questions: What lessons does Huxtable's long career offer for today's architecture critics, and what does it mean that the papers of this lifelong New Yorker will be held at the Getty Research Institute?
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July 11, 2013 |
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From the Streets of Tokyo to Snow Country: Hamaya Hiroshi and the Documentation of Japanese Life
Thursday July 11, 2013
7 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
A 1939 photo shoot in the snow country of northeastern Japan introduced photographer Hiroshi Hamaya to a different way of life, which profoundly moved the Tokyo native. Jonathan Reynolds, professor at Barnard College, discusses Hamaya's efforts to document both Tokyo's urban environment and the slower-paced ritual and community life of rural Japan. Complements the exhibition Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto.
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July 14, 2013 |
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Marie-Antoinette in America: Her Royal Treasures in the New World
Sunday July 14, 2013
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In this richly illustrated presentation, author Ronald Freyberger describes numerous extraordinary works of furniture and decorative art, now in 14 different museums in the United States, which originally adorned Marie-Antoinette's apartments at Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Tuileries, and elsewhere.
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August 3, 2013 |
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Hearsay of the Soul: Images, Music, and Ecstasies
Saturday August 3, 2013
5 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Filmmaker Werner Herzog and composer/cellist Ernst Reijseger discuss their collaboration on Hearsay of the Soul and other films, exploring the relationship between images and music.
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August 25, 2013 |
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Bringing the Loom to Life: An Introduction to Van Gogh's Weavers
Sunday August 25, 2013
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Vincent van Gogh's early interest in the peasant genre can be found in his works depicting weavers. Devi Ormond, associate paintings conservator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, discusses Van Gogh's somber weaver paintings that reveal his fascination with and understanding of color theory, something which the artist later mastered in paintings such as Irises.
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September 8, 2013 |
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Thinking on Paper: A Consideration of Negative Space in Drawing
Sunday September 8, 2013
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Artist Joe Biel explores a range of ways that considering negative space in drawings can be useful in thinking about mood, narrative, and formal structure in Old Master and contemporary drawings.
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September 22, 2013 |
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A Poem, a Prayerbook, and a Nun on the Run: The St. Albans Psalter and Its Medieval Readers
Sunday September 22, 2013
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
One of the most important and beautiful manuscripts from 12th-century England, the St. Albans Psalter offers an intriguing collection of poetry and prayers. Richly decorated with gold and luminous colors, the manuscript has long been linked with the two individuals thought to have commissioned and used it: Abbot Geoffrey of St. Albans and the holy woman Christina of Markyate.
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October 17, 2013 |
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Art and Neuroscience: Possibilities for the Future
Thursday October 17, 2013
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art at Columbia University, discusses how new developments in cognitive neuroscience help us better understand viewers' responses to works of art. He gives examples of motor responses to paintings and sculptures, examining the ways our aesthetic senses are activated by our emotional and physical engagement with the visual arts.
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July 20, 2013 |
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At the Sicilian Table: Culinary Pleasures of Ancient Sicily
Saturday July 20, 2013
5:30 pm - 10 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Enjoy a three-course dinner of elegant, delicately-flavored dishes inspired by the cuisine of Sicily during the 4th century B.C. and learn about one of the earliest foodies, Archestratus of Gela, whose humorous writings celebrated good eating and luxurious living. Tickets: $125 each (includes wine). On sale Monday, July 1 at 9:00 a.m.
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Reservations available beginning July 1.
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September 21, 2013 |
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Defying Zeus to Help Humans: What was Prometheus Thinking?
Saturday September 21, 2013
2 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
In the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, the protagonist defies the wishes of the king of the Olympian gods and suffers terrible consequences for helping the human race. Classicist Mark Griffith examines the meaning of Prometheus' "philanthropy" and the questions the play raises about justice and the nature of divine power. Free; a ticket is required.
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