Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice at the J. Paul Getty Museum

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Italian Renaissance drawings form the core of the Getty Museum’s celebrated drawings collection. On view from July 20–October 10, 2010, at the Getty Center, From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice brings together spectacular drawings from the Museum’s extensive holdings to explore influential trends in Italian drawing before 1550. Visitors will have a rare opportunity to examine more than 40 works on paper executed by Italy’s greatest practitioners of drawing, with Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), [...]

Getty Museum Announces Exhibition of Still Life Photography

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on view at the Getty Center in the Center for Photographs from September 14, 2010–January 23, 2011. “Still life photography has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change,” said Paul Martineau, assistant curator, Department of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, [...]

Getty Museum Explores the Tradition of Socially Concerned Reportage

LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the decades following World War II, an independently minded and critically engaged form of photography began to gather momentum. Situated between journalism and art, its practitioners created extended photographic essays that delved deeply into topics of social concern and presented distinct personal visions of the world. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, June 29 – November 14, 2010, Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties looks in depth at projects by [...]

Alfred Stieglitz: the Lake George Years on View at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

SYDNEY.- The photographs Alfred Stieglitz [1864–1946] took around his summer house at Lake George, New York state, USA after 1915 are considered a major departure and dramatically influenced the course of photography. The desire to build a specifically ‘American’ art led Stieglitz to explore the essential nature of photography, released from contrivances and from intervention in print and negative. ‘Stieglitz’s mature photographs from the 1910s onwards are free from any sense that photography must refer to something outside of itself [...]

Getty Announces Survey of Developments in Photographic Representations of Food

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Tasteful Pictures, a survey of important technological and aesthetic developments in photographic representations of food, on view at the Getty Center from April 6–August 22, 2010. Photographers have been enticed by the subject of food since the earliest years of the medium. Drawn entirely from the permanent collection, the works in this exhibition provide an overview of the Getty Museum’s world-renowned collection of photographs through the subject of food. [...]

Getty Museum to Explore Representations of Medieval Architecture

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and majestic palaces are some of the greatest achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, March 2–May 16, 2010, Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts explores representations of medieval architecture in manuscript illumination where artists incorporated examples of medieval church and domestic architecture into scenes drawn from scripture, literature, and history. Architectural settings were also employed to [...]

Getty Museum Acquires L’ Entrée au Jardin Turc by Louis Léopold Boilly

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of L’Entrée au Jardin Turc (The Entrance to the Turkish Garden) by Louis Léopold Boilly, one of the few important paintings by the artist still in private hands. Crisply painted in glowing colors and teeming with anecdotal detail, Boilly’s picture transports viewers to the heart of Napoleonic Paris, outside the entrance to the city’s most celebrated café, the Jardin Turc. Located in the Marais at 28, boulevard du Temple, [...]

Getty Announces Major Gift of Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today a gift of 52 photographs by acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002) from his compelling work in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1970s. The photographs are a gift from Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser of Los Angeles, who have continued their tradition of generous giving to the Getty since 2000, bolstering the Museum’s already stellar holdings of photographs by the artist to 247. Over the past ten years, [...]

Getty Announces Debut of First Major Exhibition of Gérome in Nearly Forty Years

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) enjoyed the heights of artistic and commercial success in the second half of the 19th-century as a powerful academician and respected professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; however, with the eventual triumph of Impressionism, post-Impressionism, and the modernist avant-garde-which defined itself against establishment figures like Gérôme-his reputation suffered greatly in the early 20th-century. Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, in association with the Thyssen-Bornemisza [...]

Royal Academy of Arts Stages a Landmark Exhibition of the Work of Vincent van Gogh

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist’s remarkable correspondence. Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, will be on display in the main galleries of Burlington House, together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings that express the principal themes to be found within the correspondence. Thus the exhibition will offer a unique [...]

Getty Exhibition Explores Three Cities through Three Contemporary Photographers

LOS ANGELES, CA.- On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, February 2-June 6, 2010, “Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim” brings together bodies of work by three contemporary photographers that recently entered the Museum’s collection. Each artist explores a specific city and how various modes of transportation define the urban infrastructure. Selections from Catherine Opie’s “Mini-malls” series, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s “Habitat 7″ series, and Soo Kim’s “Midnight Reykjavík” series will be on display. This exhibition will run [...]