Opening This Month
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Ajitto, 1981, Robert Mapplethorpe. Gelatin silver print. Jointly acquired by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with funds provided by the J. Paul Getty Trust and David Geffen Foundation. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium
March 15–July 31, 2016 | The Getty Center
Robert Mapplethorpe is among the most influential visual artists of the late-20th century. This major retrospective exhibition re-examines his photographic work from its humble beginnings in the early 1970s to the culture wars of the 1990s. Drawn from the landmark acquisition made in 2011 from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the exhibition presents Mapplethorpe's most iconic images with lesser-known photographs.
Concurrent exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (opening March 20) highlight different aspects of the artist's complex personality.
Support for this exhibition and its international tour has been provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. The Getty Museum's presentation is sponsored by Sotheby's.
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Butterflies, 1935, Man Ray. Carbro print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP
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The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs
March 15–July 31, 2016 | The Getty Center
In 1973, with the assistance of his lover Robert Mapplethorpe, Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. realized photography was an underappreciated art form. He began to assemble one of the most important private collections of photographs in the world, and in 1984 he sold it to the J. Paul Getty Museum, helping to form the Department of Photographs. This exhibition presents a selection of Wagstaff's collection, encompassing both masterpieces of the medium and obscure works.
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Continuing This Month
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Iskandar at the Kaaba (detail), leaf from a manuscript of the Khamsa, about 1485–95, Shiraz, Iran. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From the Nasli M. Heerameneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky. Image: www.lacma.org
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Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts
Through June 26, 2016 | The Getty Center
Explore how illuminated manuscripts and other portable objects influenced the way that Europeans in the Middle Ages and Renaissance viewed the world in this exhibition. These highly prized objects allow us to glimpse, admire, and study a world gone by, as well as its peoples, different belief systems, and an interconnected global history of human thought and ideas about art.
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Le chat (The Cat at the Window), about 1857–58, Jean-François Millet. Conté crayon and pastel with stumping and blending on wove paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum
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Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints
Through May 15, 2016 | The Getty Center
In the mid-19th century, French artists began depicting shadowy, often nocturnal or twilight scenes in which forms appear to emerge out of darkness. This exhibition illustrates the darkened realms created using new black drawing materials such as charcoal, black chalk, and conté crayon.
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Gallery view of Triumph of Bacchus, about 1560, after a design by Giovanni da Udine under the supervision of Raphael. Woven at the workshop of Frans Geubels, Brussels. Wool, silk, and gilt metal-wrapped thread. Courtesy of Le Mobilier National
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Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV
Through May 1, 2016 | The Getty Center
Prepare to be dazzled by intricate—and enormous—tapestries that once graced the palace of Versailles in this exhibition. Louis XIV, France's Sun King, formed the greatest collection of tapestries in early modern Europe. Woven by hand from the finest materials, including gold- and silver wrapped-thread, just one of these masterworks took several years to complete—even with several weavers working at the same time.
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Performances
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Uxía & Narf and António Zambujo
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Sounds of L.A.: Uxía & Narf and António Zambujo
Saturday, March 12, 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 13, 4:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
This concert illuminates the soulful music of the Iberian Peninsula with a double-bill featuring celebrated Galician duo Uxía & Narf and acclaimed Portuguese
fado singer António Zambujo. Together, they bring a fresh voice to sounds with deep roots connecting Europe to North African and beyond. Presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Free; advance ticket required.
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Jane Kaczmarek hosts the 25th annual presentation of Selected Shorts at the Getty
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Selected Shorts 2016: Dangers & Discoveries
Saturday, March 19, 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 20, 4:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
The popular public radio podcast Selected Shorts returns for a weekend of live performances of stories exploring darkness and light, inspired by the exhibition
Noir: The Romance of Black. Hollywood and stage actors perform adventurous fiction that leads you through a landscape of treachery, madness, and redemption. Jane Kaczmarek hosts the series and leads an all-star cast including René Auberjonois, Kate Burton, Bryan Cranston, Alex Karpovsky, Joshua Malina, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Radnor, Lance Reddick, Pablo Schreiber, Kirsten Vangsness, and more. Tickets $20.
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Talks
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The arches of Old Croton Aqueduct (left), New York City's monumental first aqueduct recently reopened as a public walkway between Bronx and Manhattan, evoke the grandeur of ancient Rome's Aqua Claudia (right). Photo: Peter Aicher
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Water and Power: Roman Aqueducts as Monuments and Models
Sunday, March 6, 3:00 p.m.
| The Getty Villa
The aqueducts of ancient Rome were designed and built to supply fresh water to a growing empire, yet they served also as powerful symbols of wealth and political power. In this illustrated presentation, classicist Peter Aicher takes a closer look at the aqueducts as public monuments and the influence of ancient engineering on designers of water resource systems in New York and California. Free; advance ticket required.
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Room next to the kitchen (detail), 1570. From Bartolomeo Scappi, Opera . . . (Venice, 1570), pl. 2. Getty Research Institute
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Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens
Sunday, March 6, 4:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Deborah L. Krohn, associate professor and director of Master Studies at Bard Graduate Center, discusses the first illustrated cookbook, Bartolomeo Scappi's
Opera dell'arte del cucinare (1570). In her newly released publication,
Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy: Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens, Krohn demonstrates that Scappi was at the vanguard of a new way of looking at the kitchen as a workshop or laboratory. Free; advance ticket required.
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Mary Cassatt at the Louvre Etruscan Gallery, Edgar Degas. Collection of Degas prints from Ambroise Vollard. Getty Research Institute
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Night Lights in the Intaglio Print: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, 1878–1882
Wednesday, March 16, 7:00 p.m. | The Getty Center
Hollis Clayson, professor of art history at Northwestern University, explores the impact of new lighting technologies on the conceptualization of the modern interior by the most inventive printmakers of the late-19th century. Free; advance ticket required.
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From The Getty Store
Seated Lion Statuette
This resin reproduction was cast from a mold of an original Greek sculpture in the Antiquities collection at the Getty Villa dated from about 550 B.C. Sitting calmly with its head turned to the side and his mouth closed, this lion looks less than ferocious. Certain stylistic features indicate the original was made in Lakonia, the area controlled by the city of Sparta.
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Community Partner Event
The Lightning Thief
April 8 and 9 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Adapted from the best-selling young adult novel,
The Lightning Thief is the story of Percy Jackson, a boy who journeys into a world of mythological monsters and Greek Gods as he struggles with dyslexia and ADHD. This lively musical adaptation features songs reminding us that "normal is a myth. Everyone has issues that they're dealing with."
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