E X H I B I T I O N S
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818 Doheny Dr., 1965, Ed Ruscha. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.55.29. © Ed Ruscha
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In Focus: Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha is well known for his photo-based book projects, including
Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). Less well known are the nearly half a million other images Ruscha shot of Los Angeles streets and boulevards. Selected contact sheets from these shoots are on view as part of
In Focus: Ed Ruscha.
Visit the exhibition.
Read about Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles archive.
Continuing this month
E V E N T S
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Poster for Smog (Titanus Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962)
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Smog
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Cognoscenti in a room hung with pictures (detail), artist unknown, ca. 1620. The National Gallery
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London and the Emergence of a European Art Market
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Ada Louise Huxtable in her Park Avenue apartment, New York City, March 7, 1974. Photo: Dorothy Alexander. © Dorothy Alexander
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Ada Louise Huxtable and Her Legacy
Ada Louise Huxtable pioneered the field of architectural criticism, joining the
New York Times as a full-time staff writer in 1963 and winning the first Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1970.
Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne speaks about Huxtable's legacy.
Reserve a free ticket to this event.
Read about the Huxtable archive.
A N N O U N C E M E N T S
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Attic black-figure vessel (detail), Circle of the Antimenes Painter, ca. 530–ca. 510 BC. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 92.AE.88
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Incoming Scholars Announced for 2013/2014
Forty scholars from around the world have been selected to participate in the GRI's 2013/2014 annual Scholars Program, with the theme of Connecting Seas. Scholars' projects focus on the exchange and transmission of artistic products and knowledge across bodies of water from ancient times to the present day.
View the list of incoming scholars.
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Ada Louise Huxtable at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 1996 (detail). Photo: Vladimir Lange. The Getty Research Institute, 1997.IA.10
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GRI Acquires the Ada Louise Huxtable Archive
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Morning from Times of Day, Philipp Otto Runge, 1805. Printmaker: Johann Gottlieb Seyfert. The Getty Research Institute, 2013.PR.35**
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GRI Acquires Philipp Otto Runge's Times of Day
This rare first-edition of Philipp Otto Runge's suite of four prints,
Times of Day, is a monument of German Romantic art. With allegorical images of
Morning,
Evening,
Day, and
Night, Runge rejected academic tradition in favor of a radical, highly personal vision that symbolically expressed the essential harmony of nature, humanity, and the divine.
View the prints.
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A view of the Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, 2012.
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GRI Exhibition Gallery To Expand
As part of an ongoing commitment to engaging and scholarly exhibitions that showcase the GRI's extensive special collections, the GRI is adding 2,000 square feet of gallery space. During construction, the GRI Exhibition Gallery is temporarily closed. It will reopen in fall 2013, with a total exhibition area of 2,800 square feet, split between two galleries.
Stay up to date on how this project affects library access.
N E W & N O T A B L E O N T H E W E B
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Duveen Brothers, London, during the festivities for Edouard VII's coronation, 1902. The Getty Research Institute, 2007.D.1. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
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Duveen Brothers Records, 1829–1965
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