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This event occurred on April 12, 2026.
Poetry in the Garden, held each spring, is a series of live performances is set among the Getty Center’s Central Garden. This year features poetic and musical collaborative soundscapes inspired by the publication "The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry and Dance 1950-1975," informed by mid-century experimental artists in the Getty Research Institute’s archives like Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Benjamin Patterson.
Read the publication: https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/
Learn more about this event: https://www.getty.edu/calendar/poetry-in-the-garden-scores/
Sophia Le Fraga uses objects, images, and poems to explore how language accumulates, circulates, and leaves traces over time. She has exhibited and performed at JOAN, Los Angeles, CA; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; MoMA PS1's "Greater New York," Queens, NY; Camden Arts Center, UK; and PERFORMA15. Le Fraga is the author of SOFt VISUAL WALLS (LACA, 2025), SNACKS (b l u s h, 2021), The Anti-Plays (Gauss PDF 2015), literallydead (Spork 2015), I RL, YOU RL (minuteBOOKS 2013, Troll Thread 2014), I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (KTBAFC 2012), and the artist book Other Titles by Sophia Le Fraga (If a Leaf Falls 2016). Her work has been featured in Best American Experimental Writing, BOMB Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and Dazed. Le Fraga is the founding editor of No Issue, one-third of Grupo Ñ, and a member of the international artist group Collective Task. Together with Joseph Mosconi and Corina Copp, she co-curates Language Garden in Los Angeles, where she lives.
Dustin Wong was born in Hawaii, raised in Japan. Performed and released albums as a solo act and with Ecstatic Sunshine, Ponytail, Takako Minekawa, Haco, and Brin. Performing in different scenes, starting in Baltimore, New York, Tokyo and now Los Angeles. Other than music, experiments with video and light based work.
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The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars programs. Its library and special collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community of scholars and the interested public. The Research Institute's activities and scholarly resources guide and sustain each other and together provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and scholarly exchange.
Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/research/
This event occurred on April 12, 2026.
Poetry in the Garden, held each spring, is a series of live performances is set among the Getty Center’s Central Garden. This year features poetic and musical collaborative soundscapes inspired by the publication "The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry and Dance 1950-1975," informed by mid-century experimental artists in the Getty Research Institute’s archives like Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Benjamin Patterson.
Read the publication: https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/
Learn more about this event: https://www.getty.edu/calendar/poetry-in-the-garden-scores/
Sophia Le Fraga uses objects, images, and poems to explore how language accumulates, circulates, and leaves traces over time. She has exhibited and performed at JOAN, Los Angeles, CA; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; MoMA PS1's "Greater New York," Queens, NY; Camden Arts Center, UK; and PERFORMA15. Le Fraga is the author of SOFt VISUAL WALLS (LACA, 2025), SNACKS (b l u s h, 2021), The Anti-Plays (Gauss PDF 2015), literallydead (Spork 2015), I RL, YOU RL (minuteBOOKS 2013, Troll Thread 2014), I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (KTBAFC 2012), and the artist book Other Titles by Sophia Le Fraga (If a Leaf Falls 2016). Her work has been featured in Best American Experimental Writing, BOMB Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and Dazed. Le Fraga is the founding editor of No Issue, one-third of Grupo Ñ, and a member of the international artist group Collective Task. Together with Joseph Mosconi and Corina Copp, she co-curates Language Garden in Los Angeles, where she lives.
Dustin Wong was born in Hawaii, raised in Japan. Performed and released albums as a solo act and with Ecstatic Sunshine, Ponytail, Takako Minekawa, Haco, and Brin. Performing in different scenes, starting in Baltimore, New York, Tokyo and now Los Angeles. Other than music, experiments with video and light based work.
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The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars programs. Its library and special collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community of scholars and the interested public. The Research Institute's activities and scholarly resources guide and sustain each other and together provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and scholarly exchange.
Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/research/
