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J. Paul Getty Trust Report 2016 Culture at Risk J. Paul Getty Trust Report 2016 Culture at Risk - J. Paul Getty Trust Report 2016 On Cover: Triumphal arch and great colonnade, Palmyra, Syria (no. 62), 1864, Louis Vignes. From Louis Vignes, Views and panoramas of Beirut and the ruins of Palmyra, 1864. (GRI) Table of Contents 2 Chair Message Maria Hummer-Tuttle, Chair, Board of Trustees 4 Foreword James Cuno, President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust 8 Culture at Risk 9 Targeting History Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations 15 Getty Conservation Institute Timothy P. Whalen, Director 23 Getty Foundation Deborah Marrow, Director 33 J. Paul Getty Museum Timothy Potts, Director 41 Getty Research Institute Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Director 51 2016 Highlights 69 Trust Report Lists 70 Getty Conservation Institute Projects 82 Getty Foundation Grants 94 Exhibitions and Acquisitions 116 Getty Guest Scholars 120 Getty Publications 126 Getty Councils 134 Honor Roll of Donors 138 Board of Trustees, Officers, and Directors 139 Financial Information Chair Message MARIA HUMMER-TUTTLE, CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES J. Paul Getty Trust One of the Getty’s strategic priorities is to grants to date to support scholarly research and to assist achieve leadership in online access to art, archives, in funding many of the exhibitions. I want to thank and digital publications—both for professionals and the Pacific Standard Time Leadership Council, a group for the general public. The GRI is now digitizing of generous donors, for their support. Together with approximately 952 books per month from its foundation and corporate donations, they are funding collection, a 97 percent increase over the previous year. a campaign to create broad awareness of this initiative. Publications the GRI has digitized and made available Indeed, on behalf of all the Trustees, I thank through the Internet Archive have been downloaded and recognize all the individuals, foundations and more than fourteen million times to date. corporations whose membership in the Getty’s Councils In this fiscal year, the GRI launched the Getty and whose financial support and donations of works Scholars’ Workspace, a free, open source, online of art have strengthened the Getty in so many ways. research tool that supports and enables collaborative The two new councils formed in 2016, the President’s art historical and humanities research. The trust International Council and the Museum Director’s signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Council, will add to the Getty’s ability to do more to PROTECTING CULTURAL HERITAGE, the theme of Architecture initiatives. Each project is selected for the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Arts, achieve its mission, both in Los Angeles and globally. this year’s annual report, speaks to the Getty’s extensive the potential it has to serve as a model, providing new and Science under auspices of the Rijksmuseum The Getty’s Board of Trustees, who have the work around the world preserving our collective methods and standards of conservation that can be that outlines a future of digital innovation in the primary responsibility for ensuring the long-term cultural inheritance. Essays in this report from each of applied to other important architectural structures in visual arts. The Getty also launched Art + Ideas, a success of this institution which we hold dear, said the Getty’s four programs provide examples of projects the future. podcast featuring conversations between Jim Cuno farewell this year to a valuable colleague, Jay Wintrob. done in fiscal year 2016. I’d like to thank Dr. Richard Looking back at fiscal year 2016, I should and artists and other creative thinkers. The Getty’s Jay ably served the board for twelve years, and chaired Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, remark on some of the exhibitions, acquisitions, and commitment to leadership in the accelerating digital the Finance Committee from 2008 until 2016. We for providing this report’s opening essay. programming that resulted in our record attendance field was further strengthened in August 2016 through welcomed Robert W. Lovelace, vice chairman of I wish to draw particular attention to the of over two million visitors. Power and Pathos: Bronze the addition of Richard Fagen as vice president, Capital Group, as the newest member of the board. Getty Conservation Institute’s (GCI) work with Sculpture of the Hellenistic World was the first major Computing and Digital Initiatives, who has joined Rob, whose father also was a Getty Trustee, brings the American Schools of Oriental Research, and international exhibition of some fifty ancient bronzes the Getty from Caltech, where he was the university’s financial expertise and a love of the visual arts. the implementation of their Arches software for from the Mediterranean region and beyond. The chief information officer. Having completed my first year as chair of monitoring Syrian cultural heritage sites. This work works represented the finest of these spectacular and The Getty honored Frank Gehry with the J. Paul the Getty’s board, my admiration has grown for addresses the needs of the cultural heritage community rare bronze sculptures. This exhibition, a collaborative Getty Medal at its third annual Getty Medal Dinner in the groundbreaking work being done across both in areas of data gathering, analysis, and monitoring— effort of the Getty Museum with colleagues in Italy the fall of 2015. Frank’s extraordinary vision, disciplined campuses by talented staff. The Getty makes art more all vital to promoting cultural security. and the National Gallery in Washington, DC, was practice, and use of new technologies has changed the accessible and available through its commitment to In addition, the GCI and the Getty Foundation, recognized with numerous awards. course of architecture. In October 2016, Ellsworth open content. In its science labs, the Getty finds new in partnership with the International Centre for the The GCI and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) Kelly received the J. Paul Getty Medal posthumously ways to conserve works of art. Significant projects that Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural worked together with the Dunhuang Academy and for his prolific, long career producing strong, lyrical might otherwise be left undone are funded through Property in Rome and the International Committee Dunhuang Foundation to create an extraordinary work that changed the perception and understanding the Getty’s strategic philanthropy. Scholars use the for the Conservation of Mosaics, have trained mosaic exhibition, Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art of abstract art. Yo-Yo Ma was also recognized, not Getty’s rich archives to bring to light new findings conservators in countries with significant collections, on China’s Silk Road, a first of this type of exhibition only for his peerless artistic excellence, but also for his that expand our understanding of the history of art. both in situ and in museums—these countries include for the Getty. It included three full-scale replicas of the commitment to the preservation and presentation of the Through its own collections, and in collaboration with Algeria, Libya, Jordan, Syria, and Tunisia. This work most exquisite of the Mogao grottoes near Dunhuang diversity of the world’s musical heritage. museums around the world, the Getty opens eyes and exemplifies the concept put forth by Getty President in northwestern China, carved into a cliff face and We believe that the Getty can and should stimulates minds. Of our over two million visitors last Jim Cuno when he suggests that cultural heritage painted between the fourth and the fourteenth continue to serve as a catalyst in uniting organizations year, 174,000 were school children; 134,000 of these belongs to all humanity, and thus developing innovative century. Seldom-loaned art and rare objects, including toward the achievement of a common goal. The students were from Title I schools; the Getty paid for preventative measures requires collaborative solutions. the Diamond Sutra, the world’s oldest dated complete Getty-led Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Los Angeles/ the bus transportation for 87 percent of these children. Threats to our joint cultural heritage come not printed book, originally in the so-called Library Cave, Latin America) initiative is a significant example. We are committed to do more for children most in just from the violent destruction caused by extremists were an extraordinary part of this exhibition. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, which will launch in need. The Getty is an inspiring place. I am so very or from natural disasters, but also from the less Of the additions to the Getty’s collections September of 2017, will bring together more than proud and humbled to represent it. dramatic, but cumulatively serious harm from man’s in 2016, great attention was paid to the Museum seventy cultural organizations from across Southern neglect and nature’s accretion. Damage is done to the acquisition of the seventeenth-century masterpiece, California to focus on Latin American and Latino art modern as well as the ancient, and attention must be Danaë, by Gentileschi; a rare illuminated Flemish from the ancient world to the present day. The Getty paid to both. In this vein, the Foundation and the manuscript; and two important ancient Greek and Foundation has provided more than $15 million in GCI have committed resources to conserving modern Roman objects. Additionally, the GRI continued to architecture locally and internationally through expand its holdings with the archive of Los Angeles the Keeping It Modern and Conserving Modern curator Maurice Tuchman. 2 3 Foreword JAMES CUNO, PRESIDENT AND CEO J. Paul Getty Trust as instruments of state formation and national identity. constructions that have been in near-continuous This coincided with the founding of organizations external and internal conflict since their creation, with such as the League of Nations and the UN. Both non-state actors controlling much of their territory organizations based their work on the political and economic resources.
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