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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |