Looking East: Rubens's Encounter with Asia
Dates: 3/5/2013 - 6/9/2013
Location: The Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
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1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA
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Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in seventeenth-century Europe. During his illustrious career as a court painter and diplomat, Rubens expressed a fascination with exotic costumes and headdresses. With his masterful handling of black chalk and touches of red, Rubens executed a compelling drawing that features a figure wearing Asian costume—a depiction that has recently been identified as Man in Korean Costume. Now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, this drawing is the focal point of an exhibition that explores for the first time what the Flemish artist could have known about Asia in general and Korea in particular.
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Location: West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
Dates: 3/26/2013 - 8/25/2013
Location: The Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
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1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA
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This exhibition presents the work of two photographers whose careers spanned much of the twentieth century, or the Showa Era (1926–1989) as it is known in Japan. Hiroshi Hamaya (1915–1999) and Kansuke Yamamoto (1914–1987) began as teenagers to experiment with various formal approaches and techniques in photography. As their work matured, however, they took very different paths. Through the display of works from Japanese as well as U.S. collections, the exhibition examines two important strains in Japanese photography: the documentary investigation of regional traditions and social issues, represented in the work of Hamaya; and the avant-garde movement that developed in the context of Western surrealism and advanced through the work of Yamamoto. These two trends not only reflect significant, though rarely shown, activity in the history of Japanese photography but also reveal the complexity of modern life in that nation since the Meiji Restoration.
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Location: West Pavilion, Lower Level, Getty Center
In Focus: Ed Ruscha
Dates: 4/9/2013 - 9/29/2013
Location: The Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
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1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA
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Photography has played a central role in Ed Ruscha's artistic practice, most notably in the photobooks he began publishing in 1963. Highlighting important recent acquisitions by the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition features a selection of prints and materials related to Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965), and Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). Also on view for the first time are contact sheets from his shoot of the Pacific Coast Highway (1974–75), one of the many streets he has documented extensively since 1965. The exhibition offers a concentrated look at Ruscha's engagement with vernacular architecture, the urban landscape, and car culture.
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Location: West Pavilion, Lower Level, Getty Center
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990
Dates: 4/9/2013 - 7/21/2013
Location: The Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
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1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA
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During the period 1940 to 1990, Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one of the most populous and influential industrial, economic, and creative capitals in the world. This dynamic exhibition provides an engaging view of the region's diverse urban landscape, including its ambitious freeway network, sleek corporate towers, whimsical coffee shops, popular shopping malls, refined steel-and-glass residences, and eclectic cultural institutions. Drawings, photographs, models, films, animations, oral histories, and ephemera illustrate the complex dimensions of L.A.'s rich and often underappreciated built environment, revealing this metropolis�s global impact as a vibrant laboratory for cutting-edge design.
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Location: Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
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Dates: 6/11/2013 - 6/13/2013
Location: Roosevelt Elementary
Santa Monica, CA
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801 MONTANA AVE.
Santa Monica, CA
