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SUMMER 2017 EXHIBITIONS 1 OPENING AT THE GETTY CENTER Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy Recent investigation into the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions under which such works were produced in the Ancient Americas and circulated has led to new ways of thinking about Golden Kingdoms, a major international loan exhibition materials, luxury, and the visual arts from a global perspective. featuring more than 250 masterpieces, traces the development of luxury arts in the Americas from about 1000 September 16, 2017–January 28, 2018 BC to the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Museum, Exhibitions Pavilion Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is the latest collaborative effort from arts institutions across Southern California. Supported by grants from the Getty Foundation, the initiative involves more than 70 cultural institutions from Los Angeles to Palm Springs to Santa Barbara. To learn more, visit www.pacificstandardtime.org. Presenting Sponsors Nose Ornament with Spiders (detail), Salinar culture, Peru, 100 BC–AD 200. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.1172). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art Photography in Argentina, 1850–2010: Making Art Concrete: Works from Contradiction and Continuity Argentina and Brazil in the Colección From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros 2001, Argentina has been perceived as a modern country with Combining art historical and scientific analysis, experts a powerful economic system, a massive European immigrant from the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Research population, an especially strong middle class, and an almost Institute have collaborated with the Colección Patricia Phelps nonexistent indigenous culture. This idea of a homogenous de Cisneros, to examine the formal strategies and material and progressive society underlines the difference between choices of avant-garde painters and sculptors in Argentina Argentina and its neighbors. Comprising three hundred works and Brazil associated with the concrete art movement. These by sixty artists, this exhibition examines crucial periods and works of geometric abstraction, created between 1946 and aesthetic movements in which photography had a critical 1962, are presented alongside information on how the artists role, producing—and, at times, dismantling—national pioneered new techniques and materials. constructions, utopian visions, and avant-garde artistic trends. Avenue de Mayo from “Travel albums from Paul Fleury’s trips to Switzerland, September 16, 2017–February 11, 2018 the Middle East, India, Asia, and South America,” 1914, Argentina. Gelatin September 16, 2017–January 28, 2018 Museum, West Pavilion silver print. The Getty Research Institute, 91.R.5 Museum, Center for Photographs, West Pavilion The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 Over the course of a century of rapid urban growth, sociopolitical upheavals and cultural transitions reshaped the architectural landscapes of major cities in Latin America. Focusing on six capitals—Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile—the exhibition presents the colonial city as a terrain shaped by Iberian urban regulations, and the republican city as an arena of negotiation of previously imposed and newly imported models, which were later challenged by waves of local revivals. Photographs, prints, plans, and maps depict the urban impact of key societal and economic transformations, including the emergence of a bourgeois elite, extensive infrastructure projects, rapid industrialization, and commercialization. September 16, 2017–January 7, 2018 Objeto ativo (cubo vermelho/branco), 1962, Willys de Castro. Oil on canvas Getty Research Institute, Galleries I and II Malambistas I (Malambo Dancers I) for Revista Barzón (Barzón Magazine), on plywood, 25 x 25 x 25 cm. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. 2014; print 2016, Gustavo Di Mario. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of and Promised gift to the Museum of Modern Art through the Latin American and © Gustavo Di Mario Caribbean Fund in honor of Tomás Orinoco Griffin-Cisneros 2 EXHIBITIONS 3 ON VIEW AT THE GETTY CENTER Berlin/Los Angeles: Space for Music In Focus: Through July 30, 2017 Jane and Louise Wilson’s Sealander Getty Research Institute, Gallery II Through July 2, 2017 Museum, Center for Photographs, West Pavilion Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space Through July 30, 2017 Getty Research Institute, Gallery I Perspective sketch of Disney Hall, from The Walt Disney Concert Hall Portfolio, 2003, Frank Gehry. The Getty Research Institute, 2009.PR.3. © Gehry Partners, LLP The Lure of Italy: Artists’ Views Now Then: Chris Killip Through July 30, 2017 and the Making of In Flagrante Museum, West Pavilion Through August 13, 2017 Eyewitness Views: Making History Museum, Center for Photographs, West Pavilion in Eighteenth-Century Europe Sea-Poppy 2 (Fishing Boat Names), 1968, Ian Hamilton Finlay. The Getty Through July 30, 2017 Research Institute, 890164. Courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay Museum, Exhibitions Pavilion Thomas Annan: The Birth of Pastel Photographer of Glasgow Through December 17, 2017 Through August 13, 2017 Museum, South Pavilion Museum, Center for Photographs, West Pavilion Loch Ard, Looking West, 1859, Thomas Annan. Albumen silver print. Courtesy of Glasgow Life (Mitchell Library Special Collections) on behalf of Glasgow City Council. Image © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collection: The Mitchell Library, Special Collections Self Portrait with Red Braces, 2003, David Hockney. Watercolor, 24 x 18 1/8 in. Courtesy of a private collection. © David Hockney. Photo credit: Richard Schmidt Illuminating Women Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney A Muse, 1723–1725, Rosalba Carriera. Pastel on laid blue paper. in the Medieval World Through November 26, 2017 The J. Paul Getty Museum Through September 17, 2017 Museum, West Pavilion Museum, North Pavilion 4 EXHIBITIONS TOURS 5 J. Paul Getty Life and Legacy ON VIEW AT THE GETTY VILLA Curator’s Gallery Tours Ongoing Engaging talks about current exhibitions by J. Paul Getty Museum, South Pavilion Roman Mosaics across the Empire Museum curators and other Getty staff are offered at both the Through January 8, 2018 Getty Center and Getty Villa. Greek and Roman Sculpture from Museum, Floor 2 the Santa Barbara Museum of Art GETTY CENTER Ongoing Museum, South Pavilion Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante and Thomas Annan: Photographer of Glasgow Tuesday, July 25, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 2, 2:30 p.m. Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe Wednesday, July 26, 1:30 p.m. Corner panel from Bear Hunt (detail), 4th century, Roman, stone tesserae. The J. Paul Getty Museum GETTY VILLA Roman Mosaics across the Empire GETTY VILLA REINSTALLATION Thursdays, July 13, August 10 The Getty Villa is undergoing exciting changes, including and September 14, 2:00 p.m. Portrait of a Bearded Man, mid-3rd century, Roman, bronze. Santa Barbara a reinstallation of the collection, special loan objects from Museum of Art, Gift of Wright S. Ludington other ancient cultures and the expansion of exhibition and family spaces to be completed in spring 2018. During this The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra time, various galleries and outdoor spaces will occasionally be Ongoing closed. Visit getty.edu/villa2018 for updates. Online at getty.edu/palmyra For a full list of tours, visit getty.edu/360 PERFORMANCES AND FILM Off the 405 Savoy Motel Off the 405 is the Getty Center’s annual outdoor summer This Nashville quartet is heavily steeped in a 1970s concert series, bringing some of today’s most exciting bands nostalgia with a sound built on classic and glam rock, to the stage for a memorable experience amid stunning disco, and southern boogie, but they channel the decade architecture and breathtaking sunset views. through the lens of the early ‘90s, combining the aloof irreverence of Royal Trux and the swagger of Beck’s Midnite Steve Gunn Vultures, resulting in irresistible psych-funk grooves. Acclaimed New York-based Steve Gunn brings guitar- Saturday, August 26, 6:00–9:00 p.m. forward rock to the courtyard stage in his signature blend Getty Center: Museum Courtyard of country blues, underground, and psych. His continually unfolding compositions have evolved through numerous Sonorama! Latin American notable friendships and collaborations with musicians Composers in Hollywood like Kurt Vile, Meg Baird, Lee Ranaldo, and British legend Michael Chapman. Guitarist James Elkington performs a Since the birth of Hollywood, composers and musicians special opening set. from across Latin America have played key roles in shaping the music of film and television made in Los Angeles. Join Saturday, July 29, 6:00–9:00 p.m. Mexican Institute of Sound with special guests Sergio Getty Center: Museum Courtyard Mendoza (Orkesta Mendoza) and a band led by L.A.’s own Alberto López (Jungle Fire, Rumbankete) for a special tribute to the Southern California sojourns of artists such as Juan García Esquivel, Lalo Schifrin, Maria Grever, and Johnny Richards. Saturday, September 23, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Getty Center: Museum Courtyard Photo: Savoy Motel Photo: Steve Gunn = Pacific Standard Time Presents-related programming 6 PERFORMANCES AND FILM FAMILY 7 Friday