Events for October 8th, 2008
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Wednesday - October 8th
Events / Museum Exhibit
"Please Be Seated" - Nicole Cohen
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Nicole Cohen saw the Getty's collection of 18th Century French chairs and wanted to sit in them. Of course she couldn't, but she made the chairs the subject of a video installation piece wherein participants get to see what they would look like sitting in the chairs. Working with Mike Fair to...
Events / Art
The Marvel and Measure of Peru - Three Centuries of Visual History, 1550–1880
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
July 8 - Oct. 18: With an exhibition title that pole-vaults way over the bounds of brevity, it's fitting to keep this blurb short. Imagine an enormous vault in which lay the finer examples of artistic "reporting back" by the painters who came across the ocean with the Spanish conquistadors. An...
Events / Art
The Society of Dilettanti - Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Aug. 7 - Oct. 27: In 1734, a group of well-heeled Englishmen formed a private society based around the appreciation of art. Focusing on antiquities and archeology, while keeping a strict sense of aesthetic refinement (this means drinking), they called themselves the Society of Dilettanti (from the...
Events / Art
In Focus: The Landscape
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Aug. 26 - Jan. 11: Gustave Le Gray, Alfred Stieglitz, and Robert Adams are just some of the 25 photographers whose work graces the walls of the Getty.
Events / Art
A Light Touch - Exploring Humor In Drawing
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Sept. 23 - Dec. 7: The Getty museum celebrates its silly side with an exhibition of light-hearted works from Da Vinci, Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, Urs Graf and more.
Events / Art
Sur le motif - Painting in Nature around 1800
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Sept. 23 - March 8: European works from the late 1700s and early 1800s; all pastoral settings, painted in the great outdoors. With recent acquisitions from artists such as Jean-Victor Bertin, Jean-Joseph Xavier Bidauld, Camille Corot, Simon Denis and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes.
