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

 
Backstage: An Unfurling of the JPC
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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.

 
Black Visions: Film as Archive
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This series features films by Black directors and artists that center memory, history, and archival practice in the history of Black visual culture.

 
Cocktails with a Curator
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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.

 
Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture
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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.

 
Getty Graduate Symposium
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Art history graduate students from across California present their research at this annual event.

 
Indigenous Peoples' Day
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Each year, Getty hosts a day of hands-on activities to learn about Southern California's vibrant Native American cultures.

 
Poetry in the Garden
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Each spring, 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!

 
Tastemakers
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Tastemakers is a series of communal exchanges inspired by cookbooks in the Getty Library, featuring meals led by chefs, scholars, and culinary luminaries.

 
Artist in Residence Talks
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In past years, Getty has invited an artist in residence as part of its Scholars Program annual theme to focus on their current artistic body of work.

 
Beyond the Borders, Beyond the Boundaries
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Presented by the 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.

 
Dancers on Film
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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

 
Imaginaries of LA
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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.