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The Getty Center’s Central Garden, created by California artist Robert Irwin, in spring bloom
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INSIDE GETTY
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It’s spring!
Our gardens are blooming, new shows are on view, tours and events are filling up…here are some highlights of what’s happening at the Center and Villa over the next few weeks. Come visit us!
Garden Tour, Getty Center
Tuesday–Friday, 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm; plus numerous Saturday and Sunday tours. Museum Entrance Hall
Garden Tour, Getty Villa
Daily (except Tuesday), 11:30 am, 12:30 pm,
1:30 pm, 2:30 pm; Tour Meeting Place
Browse all our spring tours
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Check out this Brandi Sky-rocket Pincushion in the Central Garden.
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Opening soon
Camille Claudel
April 2–July 21, Getty Center
Celebrated for her brilliance during a time when women sculptors were rare, Camille Claudel was among the most daring and visionary artists of the late 19th century. Although she is remembered today for her dramatic life story—her passionate relationship with artist Auguste Rodin and 30-year internment in a psychiatric institution—her art remains little known outside of France.
Related talk
Unpacking Camille Claudel: Curators in Conversation
Tuesday, April 2, 2:00 pm, Getty Center
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The Waltz (Allioli) (detail), about 1900, Camille Claudel. Bronze. Private collection. Photo: Musée Yves Brayer
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More spring shows
Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistent Pioneer
April 9–July 7, 2024, Getty Center
Learn about photography pioneer Hippolyte Bayard—Parisian bureaucrat by day and persistent inventor and artist after hours.
Nineteenth-Century Photography Now
April 9–July 7, 2024, Getty Center
Contemporary artists respond to Getty’s collection of 19th-century photography.
Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery
April 10–July 29, 2024, Getty Villa
Mighty deities, brave heroes, and fantastic beings adorn the terracotta vessels of the ancient Greeks in the Mediterranean, the Maya in Central America, and the Moche of northern Peru.
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Self-Portrait, 1847, Hippolyte Bayard. Salted paper print. Getty Museum
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ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Going viral in the Renaissance
In the 16th century, artworks moved around and were copied much like memes spreading rapidly across the Internet: multiple iterations of a single image existing simultaneously and in different places. Art historian Stephanie Porras studies how images of St. Michael the Archangel were exported to cities from Lima to Manila, and tells us what she’s found during her sleuthing.
One art historian’s quest to discover how popular images traveled the Spanish empire
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St. Michael the Archangel, about 1630, Philippines. Ivory with polychromy and gilding. Mexico City, Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Photo: Stephanie Porras
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Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape
This just-released, critically acclaimed graphic biography chronicles the genesis of Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) as an artist—from the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building a life in San Francisco, where she would further develop and refine her groundbreaking sculpture. Ages 13 and up.
How Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art
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EVENTS
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Miracles and Machines talk
Online: Thursday, March 28, 4:00 pm PT
Author Elizabeth King, professor emerita of sculpture and extended media at the VCU School of the Arts, discusses a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk”; her journey writing a Getty Publications book about it; and how her narrative draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation.
Register for this free talk
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Villa Theater Lab: Aristotle/Alexander
Friday, April 5, 7:00 pm; Saturday, April 6,
3:00 pm; Sunday, April 7, 3:00 pm; Getty Villa
In 342 BCE, in the wilds of northern Greece, a battle of wits unfolds between Aristotle, a radical Athenian philosopher, and a highly precocious, teenaged Alexander the Great.
Get tickets to this free performance
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College Night returns to Getty
Monday, April 15, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Getty Center
It’s that time again, when college students take over the Getty Center! Free with a student I.D., this wildly popular event includes exclusive curator-led gallery tours, hands-on artmaking and craft stations, a KCRW DJ set and vocal performance, and free food and parking. Spread the word!
Learn more and get free tickets
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FRAMED
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When a window frames a view just so, turning it into a work of art…
From Get Inspired subscriber Ozzie Zornizer:
“I took this in January inside a museum within the Palacio de Aguas Corrientes (Palace of Running Waters), an 1894 pumping station in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”
Have a window-framed scene “hanging” on your wall? Did you snap one somewhere else? Send us the photo! Include your name, camera used, location, and anything else you’d like to share. stories@getty.edu
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Photo by Ozzie Zornizer. Google Pixel 7 Pro
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