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Designed from the inside out, the Hall was conceived with music at its center. The remarkable work of public architecture is the result of a decades-long process of collaboration, negotiation, and invention.
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NEW DIGITAL EXHIBITION
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The story of the Walt Disney Concert Hall
From the moment the Walt Disney Concert Hall emerged in downtown LA—a breathtaking assemblage of undulating, shining curves—it became an internationally recognized architectural landmark. But just how did Frank Gehry and his team design this monument to music? A new digital exhibition, Sculpting Harmony, tells this fascinating story through interviews with Gehry, materials from his archive at Getty, and much more.
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The organ, a sculptural ensemble of 6,134 pipes, crowns the symmetrical interior of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Photo: Mike Kelley / @mpkelley
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MACABRE MOMENT
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How to become a saint
Medieval Christians often consulted books of hours—prayer books filled with hourly prayers to recite and images of saints experiencing shocking, unimaginable deaths. Those images were meant to bring comfort, not fear. But you may well be wondering: what was so soothing about looking at someone being shot with arrows while tied to a tree? Or worse?
October’s first “Macabre Moment”
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Saint Erasmus (detail), about 1430–1440, Master of Sir John Fastolf. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink. Getty Museum
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HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
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El Club Continental
Cultural historian Josh Kun dips into the history of Sunset Blvd.’s El Club Continental, a stop for local Mexicans and Central Americans who found after-work refuge in classic cumbias and salsa montunos. Among the nightclub’s acclaimed house bands: the “Latin-American Orchestra” of Esy Morales, a Puerto Rican flautist/horn player and veteran of Xavier Cugat’s band. Hear Morales’s “Jungle Fantasy” and get a sense of the club’s ambience from the ’40s to the ’70s.
Clubbing at El Continental
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El Club Continental (detail), 1974, Ed Ruscha. Negative film roll: Griffith Park headed east (Image 0099). Part of the Streets of Los Angeles Archive, Getty Research Institute. © Ed Ruscha
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EVENTS
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The Gold Bust of Marcus Aurelius and the City of Aventicum
Sunday, October 15, 2:00 pm
Getty Villa Museum and online
In 1939, the gold bust of a Roman emperor later identified as Marcus Aurelius was found in a sewer channel during excavations in Avenches, Switzerland—known in ancient times as Aventicum. Archaeologist Denis Genequand discusses the remarkable gold bust and the evolution of Aventicum from a 2nd-century BCE Celtic town to an elite Roman city.
Learn more and get tickets to this free talk
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A worker holds the gold bust upon its discovery in an ancient sewer in 1939. Image: Site et Musée romains d’Avenches Archives, État de Vaud
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Horses and Humans: A Partnership Across Time
Saturday, October 21, 1:00–4:00 pm
Getty Villa Museum
Explore the history, art, and archaeology of the horse-human bond with five scholars whose talks span ancient Greece to the “New World.” Then learn about the latest archaeological, artistic, and scientific evidence for the evolution of horses, their relationship with humans, and their impact on the people of the Americas. After the program, enjoy refreshments and conversation in the Auditorium lobby.
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Statuette of a Horse and Rider, 520–500 BCE, Greek. Bronze. Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Tirana. On view in The Horse and Rider from Albania
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BEFORE YOU GO
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Correspondence files of the Knoedler archive stored in archival boxes, Getty Research Institute, 2012.M.54. Photo by Karen Meyer-Roux
Do you know…
What an archivist does, exactly? Hint: sometimes it involves a bottle of artist Allan Sekula’s beard cuttings.
Find out
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