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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.



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


 
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.


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

The Secrets We Keep featuring Roland Betancourt
Dec 4, 2022

Rainbow Power
Dec 12, 2021

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

Why We Need Ruskin Now
Dec 10, 2019

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

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


 
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


 
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: 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


 
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