Radical Robotics, Artist in Residence Talk, Grete Stern’s Weird World of Dreams

Finding Aid: Anthony M. Clark papers, 1929–1976

Anthony M. Clark (1923–1976) was an art historian, artist, collector, and museum professional. His research papers and photographs were received by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His papers at the Getty Research Institute are more personal in nature and include address books, appointment books, diaries, notebooks, poetry books, sketchbooks, and workbooks. These bound volumes record Clark’s life at a near-daily level and document his academic pursuits in Rome; his time working at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and his perceived struggles while navigating professional, personal, and romantic relationships.

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Poetry in the Garden

Every Wednesday in May, 2:00 pm

Getty Center, Central Garden

Join us for a unique series of live readings set among Robert Irwin’s Central Garden, featuring poetic voices of Los Angeles. Each week words will float through the landscape, encouraging guests to create their own experience: Rest on a bench, lay on a blanket on the lawn, admire the view, or wander the pathways among the blooming spring plants as poetry vibrates through the air.
 

May 1, 2024: Mandy Kahn
May 8, 2024: Senon Williams
May 15, 2024: Jessa Calderon
May 22, 2024: Ariana Reines
May 29, 2024: Yesika Salgado

This program is presented in partnership with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.
 

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Bound Ecologies: In Dialogue with Carolina Caycedo

Saturday, May 11, 4:00–6:30 pm
Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall & Central Garden

Join us for this two-part event celebrating the work of Getty Artist-in-Residence Carolina Caycedo. The program will begin in the Central Garden with a participatory performance by Caycedo and Los Angeles-based movement artist Isis Avalos using Caycedo’s Serpent River Book #1 (2017), a vast and meandering collage that explores the effects of industrialization and extractivism on river systems, water resources, and communities. Following the performance, Caycedo will be joined by Joseph Valencia, curator at the Vincent Price Art Museum, for a lively dialogue about her work on the Serpent River Book series and upcoming exhibition We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro.

Afterward, event attendees are invited to a sunset reception with the artists and speakers in the garden.

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Radical Robotics: Paula Gaetano Adi’s Cosmotechnic Imagination

Saturday, May 18, 1:30–6:00 pm
Getty Center
 

TecnoLatinx Lab: 1:30–3:30 pm | Ada Louise Huxtable Lecture Hall (walk-ins welcome)
Artist Lecture & Reception: 4:00–6:00 pm | Museum Lecture Hall (advance ticket required)
 

Paula Gaetano Adi’s interdisciplinary practice interrogates the intersection of humans and technology. Gaetano Adi will premiere her recent project Guanaquerx, a radical robotic expedition with an emancipatory mission and a collaborative aesthetic. Through sculpture, performance, and film, Gaetano Adi’s works endeavor to understand how technoscience is produced, appropriated, and transformed in Latin America.

Before the lecture, visitors can experience TecnoLatinx’s emerging technology lab (Re)Mixing Worlds. This showcase celebrates the way imagination is utilized across various platforms to foster a more inclusive, sustainable, and imaginative future.
 

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Grete Stern’s Weird World of Dreams

Let’s celebrate one hundred years of surrealism by taking a look back at an artist who brought dreams and psychoanalysis together. Using photomontage in her advice column for a women’s magazine, photographer Grete Stern provided a space for creative self-expression and a way of understanding ourselves, our psychology, and the world around us.
 

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Driving Around LA with Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha’s early conceptual projects inextricably linked Ruscha to the southern California landscape. One of Ruscha’s most ambitious works was Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966), for which he mounted an automated camera in the back of his pickup truck to photograph a mile and a half of the famous street, stitched the images together, and published the sweeping panoramas as an accordion book. Over the next sixty years, Ruscha and his team continued to document Los Angeles’s boulevards as they changed from decade to decade.
 

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Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880–1930

Edited by Gail Feigenbaum, Sandra van Ginhoven, and Edward Sterrett

Money in the Air investigates the often-overlooked role of late nineteenth and early twentieth century dealers in creating an international art world. Contributors examine the histories of well-known international firms and their relationships with American clients, as well as accounts of other remarkable dealers active in the transatlantic art market. Drawing on dealer archives, scholars reveal compelling findings, including previously unknown partnerships. This volume offers new perspectives on the development of art collections that formed the core of American art museums, such as the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection.

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First Came a Friendship: Sidney B. Felsen and the Artists at Gemini G.E.L.

Through July 7, 2024

Getty Center, Research Institute

For over five decades, Sidney B. Felsen photographed artists and printers working at Gemini G.E.L. This library research guide accompanies the exhibition which chronicles the history of Gemini G.E.L., the Los Angeles artists’ workshop and publisher of limited-edition prints and sculpture, founded in 1966. This guide for researchers contains select resources related to the Sidney B. Felsen photographs of Gemini G.E.L. artists and the Los Angeles art scene archive.
 

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Wende Museum: Undercurrents I: Stories, Symbols, and Sounds

April 27–September 15, 2024

Wende Museum

Does art have the power to directly impact society? This exhibition focuses on artworks that don’t follow the beaten track of art production and political messaging. The exhibition presents East German and Polish underground portfolios and artists’ books from the collections of the Wende Museum and the Getty Research Institute, as well as Hungarian and Czechoslovak counterculture photographs from the Archive of Modern Conflict. The Corita Art Center contributes works from U.S. artist, educator, and social justice advocate Corita Kent.

Co-curated with Isotta Poggi, associate curator of photographs at the Getty Research Institute.

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