LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum today reopens its suite of sculpture and decorative arts galleries in the West Pavilion at the Getty Center with several recently acquired masterpieces featured prominently. These include Pietro Cipriani's Medici Venus and Dancing Faun (1722-24) and a nine-foot bronze vase by the French sculptor Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach (1847?1916). "On the heels of unveiling the highly successful reinstallation of the sculpture and decorative arts coll...
Starting this week, visitors to the Getty Center in Brentwood will have access to works recently acquired by the museum, including Pietro Cipriani’s "Medici Venus and Dancing Faun" and a 9-foot bronze vase by the French sculptor Jean-Désiré Ringel d’Illzach.
The artwork will be displayed in the museum's newly reconfigured sculpture and decorative arts galleries in the West Pavilion, whose collection had been off-limits for the past six months.
The galleries were closed in late Feb...
New York City - Mr. Sam Wagstaff was one of the first private art collectors to start buying photographs as early as 1973, long before there was a serious market for them. His photography collection came to be regarded not only for its scholarship. It was also original and unorthodox, and turned out to be extremely valuable. Mr. Wagstaff sold it to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1984 for $5 million, a fortune at the time, establishing that institution’s collection of photographs, now among the fi...
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Published 24-Aug-10
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the cast for Elektra, the fifth annual outdoor theatrical production in the Getty Villa?s Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. One of Sophocles? most elegantly structured and emotionally wrenching works, Elektra will feature Annie Purcell in the title role, Olympia Dukakis in the role of the Chorus, Pamela Reed as Clytemnestra, and Manoel Felciano as Orestes. Directed by Carey Perloff, artistic director of the American Conservatory T...
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Published 04-Aug-10
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- History played such an integral role in defining national identity in France throughout the high Middle Ages that some of the finest illumination of the period is located within the covers of history manuscripts. On view in the Exhibitions Pavilion at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, November 16, 2010 through February 6, 2011, Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500 highlights one of the greatest chapters in the history of French art and the development of ...
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Published 02-Aug-10
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- History played such an integral role in defining national identity in France throughout the high Middle Ages that some of the finest illumination of the period is located within the covers of history manuscripts. On view in the Exhibitions Pavilion at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, November 16, 2010 through February 6, 2011, Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500 highlights one of the greatest chapters in the history of French art and the development of the Fren...
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Published 01-Aug-10
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According to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the last exhibition of paintings by the incomparable American artist Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) held in this city took place in 1927. Organized on the 10th anniversary of Eakins' death, the traveling show prompted Arthur Millier, The Times' art critic, to lobby for the museum to buy his portrait of a Spanish woman, Signora Gomez d'Arza, arguing that it represented "the kind of selection we badly need if we are ever to have a rea...
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Published 25-Jul-10
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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...
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Published 20-Jul-10
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Easily the strangest roomful of art in Los Angeles right now is the final gallery of the Getty Museum's recently opened exhibition of fancy-pants painting and sculpture, "The Spectacular Art of Jean-Leon Gérôme." The first survey in more than 40 years of the once-celebrated, long-derided French academic artist culminates in his transition from established painter to wannabe sculptor."I only came late to sculpture," Gérôme once said, "and it is my great regret."...
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Published 15-Jul-10
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The sale of Turner's Modern Rome: Campo Vaccino for £29.7m is no triumph. It's an Antiques Roadshow attitude to art"Turner oil breaks artist record," said the original headline on the BBC Entertainment News page. Images of Turner Prize-winning oil slicks floated before my eyes – but wait, surely Saatchi is giving his treasures away, not selling them, and anyway, I don't think Richard Wilson ever did win the Turner for his lubricious pool of darkness visible, 20:50. But by the time these thoughts...
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Published 12-Jul-10
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