J. Paul Getty Museum Events for November 16th, 2008
J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles - 310-440-7330
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. We can't really say enough good things about the quality of the work on display here, but we can tell you that...
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Tuesday - November 18th
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
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.
Events / Art
Dialogue Among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Oct. 14 - March 1: In 1850, at the age of 20, Carleton Watkins is believed to have arrived in California from New York via South America. He embarked on a life in photography that began auspiciously during the gold rush and ended abruptly with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and a fire that...
Arts and Culture / Museum Exhibit
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
An exhibition of pocket-sized, hand-lithographed books by artists and poets in the Russian avant-garde.
Arts and Culture / Museum Exhibit
The Belles Heures of the Duke of Berry
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
The rare illuminated manuscript, from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be displayed with its leaves unbound.
