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Getty Research Institute hosts the third annual Getty Graduate Symposium, showcasing the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions over the course of three days, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and Q&A sessions with the audience.
Welcome and Introductions
Mary E. Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute
Session III
- Robert Gordon Fogelson, University of Southern California: “From Corporate Culture to Counterculture: The Organizational Power of Capitalist Aesthetics”
- Max Tolleson, University of California, Los Angeles: "The Museum after Minimalism: Donald Judd’s Chianti Foundation, 1979-Present”
- Alexandra Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Being Mineral: Ontology and Relationality in the Work of Otobong Nkanga”
Session III Discussion
Moderated by Amy F. Ogata, University of Southern California
This event took place over Zoom on February 7, 2021.
View the full program:
https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/2021_graduate_symposium_program.pdf
Learn more about this event:
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3249.html
Getty Research Institute hosts the third annual Getty Graduate Symposium, showcasing the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions over the course of three days, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and Q&A sessions with the audience.
Welcome and Introductions
Mary E. Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute
Session III
- Robert Gordon Fogelson, University of Southern California: “From Corporate Culture to Counterculture: The Organizational Power of Capitalist Aesthetics”
- Max Tolleson, University of California, Los Angeles: "The Museum after Minimalism: Donald Judd’s Chianti Foundation, 1979-Present”
- Alexandra Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz: “Being Mineral: Ontology and Relationality in the Work of Otobong Nkanga”
Session III Discussion
Moderated by Amy F. Ogata, University of Southern California
This event took place over Zoom on February 7, 2021.
View the full program:
https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/2021_graduate_symposium_program.pdf
Learn more about this event:
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3249.html

