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Art on Screen
EVENT SERIES

This series celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories.





Halloween at Getty: PREY Screening and Discussion
October 25, 2024

Black Nations/Queer Nations?: Screening and Community Discussion
June 18, 2024

Screening: Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
February 10, 2024

Araya: Film Screening and Conversation
September 16, 2023

Fire SZN
October 22, 2022

Image: Film still from Black Nations/Queer Nations? (Shari Frillot, 1995). Courtesy Shari Frillot and Third While Newsreel


 
Backstage: An Unfurling of the JPC
EVENT SERIES

This series explores the people behind the Johnson Publishing Company through conversations and show-and-tells of their archives held at other repositories and special collections.



Backstage: An Unfurling of the JPC | Black Archives & Memory
May 15, 2025

Backstage: An Unfurling of the JPC | Beauty & Fashion
November 7, 2024

Image: Chicago Ebony editorial staff headed by managing editor Herbert Nipson (2nd from r.) includes (clockwise from 1.) artists Norman L. Hunter (seated) and Cecil Fergusen, associate editor Alex Poinsett, senior editor Lerone Bennett Jr., asst. ed. Phyl Garland, assoc. ed. Hamilton J. Bims, int'l. ed. Era Bell Thompson, asst. ed. Robert Hunter, asst. managing ed. Hans J. Massaquoi, and artist Herbert Temple, November 1965 (detail). Photograph by Lacey Crawford. Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture


 
Cocktails with a Curator
EVENT SERIES

A series of evenings filled with wonderment as Getty Research Institute curators unveil rare materials from special collections, paired with themed cocktails to surprise and delight.



Cocktails with a Curator: Sensing Futures
February 8, 2025

Cocktails with a Curator: Queer Archives
June 30, 2024

Cocktails with a Curator: Optical Illusions
January 13, 2024

Cocktails with a Curator: Mystical Symbols
January 14, 2023

Image: View of the Vine Corridor in Governor's Gardens, Pondicherry India (detail), about 1770–1800, Remondini family. Etching. Getty Research Institute, 96.R.19


 
Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture
EVENT SERIES

Sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council, the annual Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture series is dedicated to highlighting leading research in the field of global art history.



Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide
December 15, 2024

Going Viral in the Renaissance featuring Stephanie Porras
December 2, 2023

The Secrets We Keep featuring Roland Betancourt
December 4, 2022

Rainbow Power
December 12, 2021

Blackness Is in the Making: Materials of the 18th-Century Artist
December 6, 2020

Why We Need Ruskin Now
December 10, 2019

Signs of Life: Aspects of Global Performance in the 1970s
December 4, 2018

Image: Allegory of Catherine de 'Medici as Juno (detail), Léonard Limosin, 1573. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 86.SE.536


 
Poetry in the Garden
EVENT SERIES

Each spring on select Wednesdays, join us for a unique series of live readings set among the Getty Center's Central Garden. Rest on a bench, lay on a blanket on the lawn, admire the view, or wander the pathways among the blooming spring plants as poetry vibrates through the air!


Poetry in the Garden: Solange Aguilar
April 30, 2025

Poetry in the Garden: Camae Ayewa
April 23, 2025

Poetry in the Garden: Mia Moretti
April 16, 2025

Poetry in the Garden: Miriam's Garden
June 22, 2024

Poetry in the Garden
Every Wednesday in May 2024

Poetry in the Park: Solar Eclipse
April 8, 2024


 
Artist in Residence Talks
EVENT SERIES

Each year, Getty invites an Artist in Residence as part of its Scholars Program annual theme to focus on their current artistic body of work.




Bound Ecologies: In Dialogue with Carolina Caycedo
May 11, 2023

Unruly Bodies: Artist in Residence Felipe Baeza in Conversation with Laura Gutiérrez
May 13, 2023

Gala Porras-Kim: Artist Talk
May 13, 2022

Monet Hates Me: Tacita Dean in Conversation with Anne Rana
December 8, 2021

Dance of Malaga: A Conversation with Theaster Gates
May 8, 2019

ASCENT: A Conversation with Fiona Tan
January 10, 2017

Image: 615 Offerings for the Rain at the Peabody Museum (detail), 2021, Gala Porras-Kim. Color pencil and Flashe on paper, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council. Photo: Paul Salveson


 
Beyond the Borders, Beyond the Boundaries
EVENT SERIES

Presented by the Getty Research Institute Director's Office, Beyond the Borders, Beyond the Boundaries brings together speakers whose work expands art historical scholarship beyond the intellectual and geographic constraints that have traditionally defined it, provoking new ways of thinking about how practices of inclusion and exclusion have shaped the field.

A Black Gaze: Tina Campt and LeRonn Brooks in Conversation
June 3, 2021

Unfinished, Fraying: Processes of Exhibition Making
April 27, 2021

Hostile Terrain 94: Reflections on Immigration and Public-Facing Anthropology
March 31, 2021

Blackness Is in the Making: Materials of the 18th-Century Artist
December 6, 2020

Image: Hostile Terrain 94 (detail), 2020. Part of the Undocumented Migration Project, the Manila tags represent the identified bodies of undocumented migrants who have died crossing the border, while the orange memorialize the over 1,000 deceased who remain unknown

 
Dancers on Film
EVENT SERIES

Featuring scholars, visual artists, and choreographers, Dancers on Film screens classic and contemporary films together as a way to explore the dynamic influences of Black dance forms on the moving image. Part of the African American Art History Initiative.


Dancers on Film: Maren Hassinger
July 18, 2024

Dancers on Film: Maya Deren in Context
April 7, 2022

Dancers on Film: Two by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
June 10, 2021

Dancers on Film: Okwui Okpokwasili & devynn emory
Oct 21, 2020

Image: Still of Talley Beatty from A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) by Maya Deren. Courtesy NACG/The Film-Makers' Cooperative


 
Imaginaries of LA
EVENT SERIES

Imaginaries of LA is a series of conversations between artists and curators that explores what is at stake in the strategies used to represent the city—including its history of segregation, racist city planning, and harmful urban redevelopment policies—and provides a forum for debate about LA's past, present and future.


Imaginaries of LA: Michelle Caswell, Laura Pulido, and Kandis Williams
September 21, 2022

Imaginaries of LA: Umar Rashid and Sandy Rodriguez
November 10, 2021

Imaginaries of LA: Guadalupe Rosales and Pilar Tompkins
November 10, 2021 March 18, 2021

Imaginaries of LA: Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers-Szupinska
December 10, 2020

Image: Map of the Greater West (or, The Lemurian Triangle) (detail), Umar Rashid, 2017. Ink, acrylic, coffee, and tea on paper. 134.62 x 154.94 cm. Courtesy the artist