Events for August 21st, 2008
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Thursday - August 21st
Events / Museum Exhibit
"Please Be Seated" - Nicole Cohen
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - 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
August Sander - People of the Twentieth Century
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
A commercial photographer with a portrait studio in a suburb of Cologne, August Sander set out to create an "atlas" of his fellow citizens. Starting in 1910, Sander photographed a social cross-section of the German people, filing away his images into seven groupings (farmers, skilled tradesmen,...
Events / Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher - Basic Forms
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
A husband and wife team, Bernd and Hilla Becher have been photographing industrial architecture for almost 50 years (he died in 2007). Using a large-format camera, they've travelled through Western Europe and America capturing lonely, massive structures—often abandoned remnants of vanished...
Events / Art
Maria Sibylla Merian & Her Daughters - Women Of Art & Science
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
June 10 - Aug. 31: German artist Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughters Johanna Helena and Dorothea Maria managed to place their distinctive mark on the world of 17th and 18th Century botanical painting. And they kept it in the family. This exhibit traces the course of their work in watercolors of...
Events / Art
The Marvel and Measure of Peru - Three Centuries of Visual History, 1550–1880
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - 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 Drive - 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...
Style / Apparel and Accessories
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