Collecting Mesoamerican Art, 1940–1968: Forging a Market in the United States and Mexico (Day 2) @gettyresearch

Getty Research Institute The second international symposium of the Getty Research Institute's Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative focuses on collecting practices in Mexico and the United States, when Hollywood luminaries and international collectors developed a taste for ancient Mexican art. By the 1960s, the pre-Hispanic past underpinned Mexican national identity, gained new audiences in international museums, and played a formal role in the history of art.

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Program Schedule
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The Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative documents and analyzes the commodification and mobilization of pre-Hispanic art and material culture by the international art market between the mid-19th and late-20th centuries.

This program is part of the GRI's Untold Stories series, which celebrates the "untold stories" of visual culture, exploring how new works, people, and interpretations can shed new light on our understanding of and appreciation for the history of art.

This event occurred on April 28, 2022.

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Collecting Mesoamerican Art, 1940–1968: Forging a Market in the United States and Mexico (Day 2)

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-14 | The second international symposium of the Getty Research Institute's Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative focuses on collecting practices in Mexico and the United States, when Hollywood luminaries and international collectors developed a taste for ancient Mexican art. By the 1960s, the pre-Hispanic past underpinned Mexican national identity, gained new audiences in international museums, and played a formal role in the history of art.

Este programa está disponible también en español
youtu.be/QO6FLgG3ImA

Program Schedule
https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/phapi_program.pdf

The Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative documents and analyzes the commodification and mobilization of pre-Hispanic art and material culture by the international art market between the mid-19th and late-20th centuries.

This program is part of the GRI's Untold Stories series, which celebrates the "untold stories" of visual culture, exploring how new works, people, and interpretations can shed new light on our understanding of and appreciation for the history of art.

This event occurred on April 28, 2022.

Learn more about this event
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3459.html

the sound of your voice is home: Yasmine Nasser Diaz in Conversation with Ikram Lakhdhar

Getty Research Institute 2023-03-20 | Yasmine Nasser Diaz builds an affective world by and for the South West Asian and North African diaspora and beyond. In her multimedia installation the sound of your voice is home (TSOYVIH), she turns oral communications between distant loved ones into an immersive soundscape. Cassette tapes sent between her family in Yemen and Chicago inspired this nostalgic installation of ritualized correspondence to document the evolving ways diasporic communities maintain connectivity and share memories, shedding light on how art and stories migrate through cultures, time, and space.

Following a video screening of TSOYVIH, Diaz will be joined in conversation with curator Ikram Lakhdhar to explore the artist's role as an archivist of the immigrant experience, preserving intergenerational exchanges through collecting and storytelling.

After the talk and throughout the afternoon, attendees are invited to the Getty Research Institute for a reception and to record their own traditions of familial communication, contributing to a growing collection of diaspora soundbites.
Yasmine Nasser Diaz builds an affective world by and for the South West Asian and North African diaspora and beyond. In her multimedia installation the sound of your voice is home (TSOYVIH), she turns oral communications between distant loved ones into an immersive soundscape. Cassette tapes sent between her family in Yemen and Chicago inspired this nostalgic installation of ritualized correspondence to document the evolving ways diasporic communities maintain connectivity and share memories, shedding light on how art and stories migrate through cultures, time, and space.

Following a video screening of TSOYVIH, Diaz will be joined in conversation with curator Ikram Lakhdhar to explore the artist's role as an archivist of the immigrant experience, preserving intergenerational exchanges through collecting and storytelling.

After the talk and throughout the afternoon, attendees are invited to the Getty Research Institute for a reception and to record their own traditions of familial communication, contributing to a growing collection of diaspora soundbites.

This event occurred on Mar 12, 2023.
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2023: Session III (Video 3 of 3)

Getty Research Institute 2023-03-02 | The Getty Research Institute hosts the fifth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

Session III
- Tenga Tenga, Can I Help You Carry Your Load? A ReEngagement with Indigenous Stories to Deconstruct Colonial Narratives of World War I
Aaron Mulenga, University of California, Santa Cruz
Introduced by: Kailani Polzak, University of California,
Santa Cruz

- Agadir, a Ghost Town
Riad Kherdeen, University of California, Berkeley
Introduced by: Anneka Lenssen, University of
California, Berkeley

- Re-Animating the Lost Encounter through Remixed Time: Jacolby Satterwhite, Jon Rafman, and the Generative Archive
Grace Han, Stanford University
Introduced by: Shane Denson, Stanford University

Session III Discussion
Moderator: Cheryl Finley, Atlanta University Center
Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective

This event occurred on Feb 03, 2023
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2023: Session II (Video 2 of 3)

Getty Research Institute 2023-03-02 | The Getty Research Institute hosts the fifth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

Session II
- Grains, Worms and Stains: Designing from Wood in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1525
David Bardeen, University of California, Los Angeles
Introduced by: Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles

- The Artist and the Ecosystem: Strategies for the Use and Reuse of Materials in Early America
Cambra Sklarz, University of California, Riverside
Introduced by: Jason Weems, University of California, Riverside

- Colonial Entanglements: UNESCO and the Shaping of the Black Body in Haitian Ceramic Home Industries, 1946-1956
Matthew Limb, University of California, Santa Barbara
Introduced by: Jenni Sorkin, University of California, Santa Barbara

Session II Discussion
Moderator: Nancy Um, Getty Research Institute

This event occurred on Feb 03, 2023
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Getty Graduate Symposium 2023: Session I (Video 1 of 3)

Getty Research Institute 2023-03-02 | The Getty Research Institute hosts the fifth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

Welcome and Introduction
Mary Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute

Session I
- Retrospection and Reanimation in Tiberian Imperial
Portrait Statuary (14-37 CE)
Anne F. LaGatta, University of Southern California
Introduced by: John Pollini, University of
Southern California

- Exploring the Decorativeness: Cross-Cultural
Exchange and Zhang Guangyu’s Ethnographic
Illustrations in the 1950s
Felicity Yin, University of California, San Diego
Introduced by: Kuiyi Shen, University of California,
San Diego

- Reimagining Archives of the Vietnam War: Collaging
Family and Wartime Photography in Ann Le’s Embody
Wallpaper Portraits (2012)
Kylie Ching, University of California, Irvine
Introduced by: James Nisbet, University of
California, Irvine

Session I Discussion
Moderator: Miguel de Baca, Getty Foundation

This event occurred on Feb 03, 2023
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Barbara T. Smith, A Week in the Life Of... (1975)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | In March 1975, Smith held an auction at the Pasadena Artists Concern in which she sold off segments of time to be spent with her. She wrote, "Any purchased event would begin to exist for the buyer as an imagined form in their mind while awaiting a date when the fantasy was to become a reality...The only distinction that made these events art, as compared to all other types of events, lay in our awareness of them being so."

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, Field Piece (1972)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | "Field Piece" was a large environmental sculpture made of 180 translucent resin tubes, each 9 1/2 feet tall, representing blades of grass. The tubes were mounted on an Ethafoam base containing hidden switches that produced an electronic hum and caused the blades to light up when someone stepped on them. The artwork took Smith over four years to complete and drained most of her savings. Over time, most of the panels were damaged and today only 15 blades survive.

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, Just Passing (1979)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | Smith conceived of this piece based on the idea that "we are all just passing through life. We come in at birth and go out at death, during which time we play our part and learn our lessons." The video is a combination of pre-recorded segments, live broadcast, and re-staged photographs from Smith's past. Smith described the voiceover as four distinct personas: "one was a sort of tour guide, who described what was seen; another was a narrator, who told stories of my past; a third was a startled child (me); and the fourth was a 'teacher' who exhorted the viewers and critiqued their interpretation of the images...I wanted to pit performance art against television, the past versus the present, and to invoke this spirit of a female goddess."

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, With Love from A to B (1977)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | Created with Nancy Buchanan, "With Love from A to B" was initially a video performance for the 1977 College Art Association convention. Smith had the idea of using "the framing edge [of the screen] to initiate all action, with the center field more or less empty." In the video, Smith's hands act as a suitor courting buchanan's hands, who do not return the suitor's love. The original piece ended with Smith controversially cutting her own finger--a choice she later regretted and re-shot so that the violence was only implied.

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, The Way to Be (1972)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | For this performance, Smith traveled from San Francisco to Seattle dressed in an all-white outfit and cap with her face painted half white and has red. While in public, she did not speak to anyone or explain what she was doing. Smith said she wanted to appear "anonymous and indescribable": "I was playing on the edge of being, and I was a nonbeing. Who or what is being when almost all social modifiers, identification clues, and handles have been stripped away?"

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, Outside Chance (1975)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | For this performance, Smith worked with a computer scientist to generate 3,000 unique snowflake patterns on printer paper. Disguised in a wig and sunglasses, she checked into the Union Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas and threw the papers from an upper-floor window.

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, Ritual Meal (1969)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | In May 1969, Smith hosted a dinner party where silent attendants dressed guests in surgical gowns, provided medical tools for utensils, and served mostly raw food. Film footage was projected onto the walls, including a beating heart, waves, and nude people in nature. Audio of synthesized sounds layered over a heartbeat played throughout the meal. Smith wrote, "The situation was set up to be deliberately disorienting...If this was an ordinary social event, people would have interacted based on their conventional roles. To initiate change, those roles, which are defenses or barriers, had to be disoriented and released...This experience lasted for almost five hours. The piece was startling. Nothing of this sort had happened in Los Angeles. It was my first major performance."

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, Intimations of Immortality (1974)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | For this performance, Smith exchanged positions with women who spent their days in MacArthur Park near downtown Los Angeles. While Smith took their place in the park, the women sat on a bench installed in an art gallery at the nearby Woman's Building. Smith wanted to explore her own fears of aging and homelessness. She wrote, "Why was I here and they were there? What made my life safe and theirs so desperate and vulnerable?" In this segment of the performance, a woman from the park named Olive is interviewed about her life.

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, The Perpetual Napkin (1980)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | One day while staying at a friend's house, Smith noticed a napkin she'd left on the porch: "I was overcome with an amused feeling of gratitude; I felt like the napkin was telling me that I was being given a level of care that I truly needed, but in a very unobtrusive way. And the larger message was that if one needs care, one should go to the place where perpetual care exists." In this segment of the performance, Smith ran back and forth across a room, avoiding collision with the walls by switching directions when someone struck a pair of clappers. As Smith grew tired, she briefly stopped running to interact with different objects, including a glass of water, a TV dinner, a sweatband, a stick, and flowers.

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Barbara T. Smith, The Celebration of the Holy Squash (1971)

Getty Research Institute 2023-02-27 | In February 1971, Smith cooked a Hubbard squash for a dinner party with friends. She was inspired by the beauty of its rind to create a religion. She initiated "disciples" into the squash's mysteries and invited others to preserve it as a holy relic. Over eight days, followers built a mold out of foam rubber and silver tape, which they used to cast the squash in resin. Once finished, they baptized the 150-pound relic in a fountain. After the ritual, Smith placed a notice in a Los Angeles legal newspaper declaring the squash an authentic religion.

This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smith's archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551

Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html

Las Múltiples Reinvenciones de las Américas en Contexto (Español) - Video 2 de 2

Getty Research Institute 2022-12-08 | América es una invención europea. Entre 1492 y finales del siglo XIX, conquistadores, viajeros y artistas europeos produjeron grabados, libros y objetos que mostraban los recursos naturales y la gente nativa de las Américas, construyendo en muchas ocasiones ideas fantásticas y ficticias. Al mezclar la realidad con sus propias tradiciones e interpretaciones, crearon imágenes fáciles de llevar y de reproducir que viajaron por el mundo, lo cual aumentó la difusión de estereotipos y prejuicios. Este simposio presenta los esfuerzos de académicos y curadores para contextualizar la creación de esas imágenes e investigar cómo se formaron.

- Denilson Baniwa, Artista

- El Retorno de los Caboclos: Alegorias de América, Cultura Popular y Experiencias de Libertad en Brasil
Renato Menezes, Curador, Pinacoteca de São Paulo

- "Yo no soy tu fantasía": Blanquitud y Representaciones Indígenas (Siglo XIX y Hoy)
Fernanda Pitta, Profesor, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP)

- Discusión grupal y preguntas

This program is also available in English:
youtube.com/watch?v=kSUoejf6lCM

Este evento ocurrió en 28 de Octubre, 2022

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Las Múltiples Reinvenciones de las Américas en Contexto (Español) - Video 1 de 2

Getty Research Institute 2022-12-08 | América es una invención europea. Entre 1492 y finales del siglo XIX, conquistadores, viajeros y artistas europeos produjeron grabados, libros y objetos que mostraban los recursos naturales y la gente nativa de las Américas, construyendo en muchas ocasiones ideas fantásticas y ficticias. Al mezclar la realidad con sus propias tradiciones e interpretaciones, crearon imágenes fáciles de llevar y de reproducir que viajaron por el mundo, lo cual aumentó la difusión de estereotipos y prejuicios. Este simposio presenta los esfuerzos de académicos y curadores para contextualizar la creación de esas imágenes e investigar cómo se formaron.

- Bienvenida
Mary Miller, Directora, Getty Research Institute

- Introducción
Idurre Alonso, Curadora, Getty Research Institute

- "Los europeos serían miserables salvajes en la jungla, el último de los salvajes sería un hombre respetable en la ciudad". Imágenes de las Américas, Imágenes de Violencia (1492-1804).
Nicolás Kwiatkowski, Profesor e Investigador, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

- El lugar de mirada: las imágenes Topsy-Turvy de una América
Thomas B.F. Cummins, Profesor y Director, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University

- Rehaciendo Imágenes Indígenas Mexicanas
Daniela Bleichmar, Profesor, University of Southern California

This program is also available in English:
youtube.com/watch?v=INeuConX9OU

Este evento ocurrió en 28 de Octubre, 2022

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The Multiple Reinventions of the Américas in Context (English) - Video 2 of 2

Getty Research Institute 2022-12-08 | America is a European invention. Between 1492 and the late 1800s, European conquistadors, travelers, and artists produced prints, books, and objects that illustrated the natural resources and Native peoples of the Americas, often constructing fantastic and fictional ideas. Mixing reality with their own conventions and interpretations, they created portable and reproducible images that circulated around the world, fueling the spread of stereotypes and prejudices. This symposium presents efforts of scholars and curators to contextualize the creation of those images and to investigate their formation. The event will include a conversation with Indigenous artist Denilson Baniwa.

- Denilson Baniwa, Artist

- The Return of the Caboclos: Allegory of America, Popular Culture, and Experiences of Freedom in Brazil
Renato Menezes, Curator, Pinacoteca de São Paulo

- "I am not your fantasy": Whiteness and Indigenous Representations (19th Century and Today)
Fernanda Pitta, Professor, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP)

- Group Discussion and Q&A

View the full program: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/multiple_reinventions_schedule.pdf

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youtube.com/watch?v=CVLM5rK4TC4&feature=youtu.be

This event occurred on Oct 28, 2022.

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The Multiple Reinventions of the Américas in Context (English) - Video 1 of 2

Getty Research Institute 2022-12-08 | America is a European invention. Between 1492 and the late 1800s, European conquistadors, travelers, and artists produced prints, books, and objects that illustrated the natural resources and Native peoples of the Americas, often constructing fantastic and fictional ideas. Mixing reality with their own conventions and interpretations, they created portable and reproducible images that circulated around the world, fueling the spread of stereotypes and prejudices. This symposium presents efforts of scholars and curators to contextualize the creation of those images and to investigate their formation.

- Welcome
Mary Miller, Director, Getty Research Institute

- Introduction
Idurre Alonso, Curator, Getty Research Institute

- “Europeans would be miserable savages in the jungle, the last of the savages would be a respectable man in the city”. Images of Americans, Images of Violence (1492-1804)
Nicolás Kwiatkowski, Professor and Researcher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

- The Place of View: The Topsy-Turvy Images of an America
Thomas B.F. Cummins, Professor and Director, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University

- Remaking Mexican Indigenous Images
Daniela Bleichmar, Professor, University of Southern California

View the full program: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/multiple_reinventions_schedule.pdf

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youtube.com/watch?v=zlJywRXBPcY&feature=youtu.be

This event occurred on Oct 28, 2022.

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Autentificando el Códice Maya de México (Español)

Getty Research Institute 2022-12-06 | En 2017 varios equipos de investigación analizaron el Códice Maya de México, antes conocido como Códice Grolier, para discernir si el documento era auténtico o una falsificación. Utilizando métodos de investigación invasivos y no invasivos, la evidencia material confirmó que el documento fue hecho en el período Posclásico Temprano (1000–1300 D.C.), haciéndolo el libro existente más antíguo de las Américas. Debatiendo temas desde el descubrimiento del pigmento Azul Maya hasta la datación por radiocarbono, Gerardo Gutiérrez presentará los resultados de las pruebas hechas por la University of Colorado Boulder en colaboración con la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México para apoyar la autenticidad del Códice Maya de México.

Vea la transcripción del programa en Español
https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/authenticating_codice_maya_spanish_transcript.pdf

This program is also available in English
youtu.be/-CvFeJJTl3w

Este evento ocurrió en 04 de Noviembre, 2022

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Authenticating the Códice Maya de México (English)

Getty Research Institute 2022-12-06 | In 2017 several research teams analyzed the Códice Maya de México, previously known as the Grolier Codex, to assess whether the document was authentic or a forgery. Using both non-invasive and invasive scientific methods, the material evidence confirmed that the document was manufactured in the Early Postclassic period (AD 1000–1300), making it the oldest surviving book created in the Americas. Discussing topics ranging from the discovery of Maya Blue pigment to radiocarbon dating, Gerardo Gutiérrez will present the results of tests undertaken by the University of Colorado Boulder in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia of Mexico, to support the authenticity of the Códice Maya de México.

Este programa está disponible también en español
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This event occurred on Nov 04, 2022.

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The Secrets We Keep featuring Roland Betancourt

Getty Research Institute 2022-12-06 | From the relics of the imperial palace to the military uses of Greek fire, some of the most seductive aspects of the Byzantine Empire were shrouded in secrecy. In this talk, Roland Betancourt examines the role of the art historian in approaching arcane knowledge, demonstrating how visual evidence allows us to decode new answers—and sometimes, how it purposely conceals them.

Betancourt considers how secret knowledge is transmitted and how social relations are shaped around collective secret keeping, asking: How do scholars access histories preserved in only fragmentary glimpses? And how do practices of speculation and reconstruction manifest differently across the work of historians?

This event occurred on Dec 04, 2022.

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Indian Alley: Pamela J. Peters on the Urban Migration of American Indians

Getty Research Institute 2022-11-14 | The multimedia work of Diné artist and documentarian Pamela J. Peters addresses the historical misrepresentation of Native Americans, seeking to correct and reframe the negative images and narratives perpetuated in the mainstream media, visual arts, and news. Peters confronts the complex relationship between Native Americans and the US government, exploring the history of coercive assimilation, displacement, and cultural erasure. In this program, Peters screens her short film Indian Alley (2021) to discuss the migration of American Indians to urban centers such as Los Angeles under the false promises of government relocation programs. She is joined in conversation by UCLA associate professor Kyle T. Mays as they deconstruct the impact of these laws and policies on Native identity.

This event occurred on Nov 12, 2022.

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Fire Szn

Getty Research Institute 2022-10-26 | Fire season marks California's nature to burn. With wildfires ripping through an arid landscape uniquely susceptible to flames, it is a place both situated for ruin and ripe for rebirth. Practices of fire management have markedly changed over time, shifting away from natural cycles and rhythms as climate change continues to fuel dry conditions in the American West.

Following a screening of Sea of Fire (Gabbiani, 2022, 7 minutes), artist Francesca Gabbiani joins curator Catherine Taft to explore how her work responds to the anxiety of environmental destruction and political structures through the lens of a spiritual reconnection to nature. Their conversation will address the tenets of ecofeminism and the ways artists have mined the intersections of gender and nature over time.

This event occurred on Oct 22, 2022.

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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day

Getty Research Institute 2022-10-25 | To celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day (October 10), Getty is hosting a family event to learn about Southern California's vibrant Native American cultures through activities sharing traditional and contemporary Indigenous perspectives and narratives. Enjoy a hands-on plant dye workshop led by Meztli Projects featuring cochineal, indigo, and oak dyes to learn about how Indigenous communities are reclaiming knowledge and revitalizing Indigenous traditions; discover traditional flavors from California selected by co-author of Cooking the Native Way Abe Sanchez; and take curator-led tours of the Getty Research Institute exhibition Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat. Musician Kelly Caballero punctuates the celebration with a musical and spoken word performance.

This program compliments the exhibition Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat., on view from August 23, 2022 through January 8, 2023.

This event occurred on Oct 15, 2022.

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Imaginaries of LA: Michelle Caswell, Laura Pulido, and Kandis Williams

Getty Research Institute 2022-09-26 | Imaginaries of LA is a series of conversations between Los Angeles-based artists, scholars, and curators, providing a forum for debate about representations of the city. In this fourth iteration, archival scholar Michelle Caswell, social scientist Laura Pulido, and multidisciplinary artist Kandis Williams explore the ways in which archives can repress or enable certain histories of the city, as well as strategies for working with archives that chronicle Los Angeles's past and shape its future.

This program is moderated by Zanna Gilbert, senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. It was organized by Zanna Gilbert and Isabel Wade, research assistant at the Getty Research Institute.

This event occurred on Sept 21, 2022.

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Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898)

Getty Research Institute 2022-09-07 | This event is the third of a three-part series presented by Getty Research Institute in partnership with the Ayala Museum, the University of Edinburgh, and the Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut.

Scholars discuss the new book, Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898). The conversation explores global culture and economic exchange on the transpacific routes between Asia and the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries—an era of competition for global trade networks—and how those interchanges have made a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, especially in the cosmopolitan cities of Manila and Los Angeles along the Pacific Rim.

Richard T. Chu is the Five College professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Christina H. Lee is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.

Paulina Machuca is a research professor in the Department of History at El Colegio de Michoacán.

Florina H. Capistrano-Baker was formerly museum director of the Ayala Museum where she is currently a consultant.

Meha Priyadarshini is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Edinburgh.

This program is part of the GRI's Untold Stories series, which celebrates the "untold stories" of visual culture, exploring how new works, people, and interpretations can shed new light on our understanding of and appreciation for the history of art.

This event occurred on May 25, 2022.

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The Polykleitos Problem: Illusions of the Ideal in European Anatomical Images

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-28 | In De humani corporis fabrica (1543), a foundational volume for modern anatomy, Andreas Vesalius instructs his readers to find and dissect a human body that looks like an ancient Greek sculpture by Polykleitos. Although almost none of the bodies he himself dissected looked that way, the illustrations in his influential publication rely heavily on tropes of antique male muscularity, canonical proportions and direct references to Greek statues.

In contrast to Vesalius's idealized bodies, 16th- and 17th-century anatomical illustrations are rife with varied bodies that push against the primacy of this Greco-Roman canon. Many anatomical treatises portray the human body as more permeable, abstract and resistant to Vesalian norms. This talk by Professor Lyle Massey explores some of the problems confronting early modern anatomists as they tried to define and grasp the human body.

This talk is moderated by Monique Kornell, curator of Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy at Getty Research Institute.

Lyle Massey is associate professor of art history and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has published widely on early modern anatomical imagery, from 17th-century flap sheets to 18th-century Florentine wax figures. She is the author of Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective, as well as editor and co-editor of The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished and The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land, and the Politics of Environment, respectively.

Monique Kornell is a specialist in the history of anatomical illustration and the study of anatomy by artists, with a particular interest in anatomy books for artists. She is the curator of the exhibition Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy and visiting associate professor in the Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

This program coincides with the exhibition Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, which is on view through July 10, 2022 at Getty Research Institute.

This program is part of the Untold Stories series, which celebrates the "untold stories" of visual culture, exploring how new works, people, and interpretations can shed fresh light on our understanding of and appreciation for the history of art.

This event occurred on June 24, 2022.

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Iconic Intelligence: How Käthe Kollwitz Made Pictures Talk

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-15 | Käthe Kollwitz was a political artist, at least in the sense that she wanted to have an impact on viewers. But how do her images deliver messages without words? This lecture examines the unique strategy of pictorial communication that Kollwitz developed over seven years while producing her series Peasants' War (1901–1908).

Annette Seeler is an independent scholar and former curator of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum in Berlin. She contributes to projects at a variety of cultural institutions, including the Getty Research Institute, the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the National Gallery of Ireland, and the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg. She has published numerous essays and books on 20th century art, focusing on the work of Käthe Kollwitz, including the catalogue raisonné of the artist's sculpture.

This lecture complements the exhibition Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics, on view at the Getty Research Institute from December 3, 2019, through March 29, 2020. https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/kollwitz/index.html

This event occurred on January 28, 2020.

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Why We Need Ruskin Now

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-15 | In this lecture, art historian Tim Barringer proposes that the critical practice of Victorian-era art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900) suggests ways that we can renew art-historical thinking today. While flatly rejecting Ruskin's ideas about gender and race, Barringer reconsiders the critic's expansion of art historical discourse to embrace urgent questions of modernity. In words and images, Ruskin asked: What can we learn from the natural world and how should we care for it? How should historical monuments be understood and preserved? What is the role of art in education? And finally, how can we make a more just society?

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art at Yale University.

This is a Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture, sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council.

This event occurred on December 10, 2019.

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Good Pieces in Sight: The US Market in Mesoamerican Antiquities circa 1940

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-15 | Art historian Megan E. O'Neil examines the changing US market in antiquities from Mexico and Central America in the 1930s and 1940s by focusing on Pierre Matisse and Earl Stendahl, art dealers in New York City and Los Angeles, respectively. Both Matisse and Stendahl began their businesses trading European art before adding pre-Hispanic art in the 1930s. But conflict in Europe during World War II prompted changes in the art market and, during this period, the pre-Hispanic art market largely shifted from Europe to the Americas. Matisse's correspondence illuminates the human stories that accompanied these changes, as some of his European contacts went into exile. Both men started collaborating with Mexican dealers in acquiring pieces directly from Mexico, precipitating a growth in the removal of pre-Hispanic objects from that country. While Matisse eventually stopped acquiring antiquities, in subsequent decades the Stendahl Galleries bought and sold thousands of pre-Hispanic objects from Mexico and Central America. This lecture follows the changing geographies of the art market and the lives of these two men, their sources, and their clients, who together provided the foundations for many pre-Hispanic art collections in American museums today.

This keynote lecture inaugurates the symposium, Collecting Mexican Art before 1940: A New World of American Antiquities, taking place at the Getty Center on November 15, 2019. Learn more about this symposium: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdcw4RhcVX8ufEu7_HaJpL3hoAFpax034

Megan E. O'Neil is assistant professor of art history and faculty curator of the Art of the Americas at Emory University, specializing in the ancient Maya and other cultures of the ancient Americas.

This event occurred on November 14, 2019.

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Collecting Mexican Art before 1940: A New World of American Antiquities (Video 4 of 4)

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-15 | This international symposium is the inaugural event associated with the Getty Research Institute's new Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative. Responding to the pressing need for preservation of ancient Mesoamerican heritage and its provenance, the initiative comprises the first systematic study of how the corpus of pre-Hispanic art took shape in North America and Europe and came to form centerpiece collections of some of the most important art museums in the world.

Speakers focus on early collections assembled between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The year 1940—when the Museum of Modern Art hosted the groundbreaking exhibition Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, featuring works of Mexican ancient, colonial, modern, and folk art—marks the turning point when sales of pre-Hispanic art began to boom on the international art market, in part through the commercial activities of the Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles. This symposium presents efforts of curators and scholars to study these collections comprehensively and to investigate the broader role of pre-Hispanic art in the history of the art market and in the formation of international collections and institutions.

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Participants
Miruna Achim, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa
Christopher S. Beekman, University of Colorado Denver
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Yale University
Davide Domenici, Università di Bologna
Viola König, Freie Universität Berlin
Brooke Luokkala, Emory University
Mary Miller, Getty Research Institute
Megan E. O'Neil, Emory University
Joanne Pillsbury, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute
Matthew H. Robb, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Adam Sellen, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mérida
Andrew Turner, Getty Research Institute
Khristaan Villela, Museum of International Folk Art

This event occurred on November 15, 2019.

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Collecting Mexican Art before 1940: A New World of American Antiquities (Video 3 of 4)

Collecting Mexican Art before 1940: A New World of American Antiquities (Video 2 of 4)

Collecting Mexican Art before 1940: A New World of American Antiquities (Video 1 of 4)

The Creative Impulse: Jae Jarrell and Sylvia Snowden in Conversation

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-15 | Jae Jarrell, a founding member of AfriCOBRA and active participant in the Black Arts Movement, is best known for her clothing designs and, more recently, sculpture and furniture. Sylvia Snowden, an abstract painter, creates canvases that reflect emotional and tactile vibrancy through the use of dense, expressive gestures.

These two renowned artists—both active throughout the late-20th and early-21st centuries—come together to discuss the creative impulse, along with the history of African American art and its impact on their own art practices. The conversation will be moderated by Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor of African American studies and art history at the University of California, Irvine.

This event occurred on October 24, 2019.

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A Colorful Afternoon: Cornelia Funkes Adventures Through the Bauhaus

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-15 | Award-winning children's author Cornelia Funke reads her latest Getty story featuring the pirate and ghost William Dampier, who protects the Getty Center from other ghosts and spirits. Funke's latest tale follows Pirate Dampier to the Bauhaus where he encounters an artistic world of shapes, colors, and materials on the occasion of the exhibition Bauhaus Beginnings.

This afternoon storytelling adventure is followed by a reception, children's craft project, and tour of Bauhaus Beginnings, on view in the Getty Research Institute galleries.

Cornelia Funke is a celebrated fantasy and adventure writer, and her stories—which include The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider, the Inkworld trilogy, and the MirrorWorld novels—have been translated into 30 languages.

This event occurred on September 29, 2019.

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Collecting Mesoamerican Art, 1940–1968: Forging a Market in the United States and Mexico

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-14 | The second international symposium of the Getty Research Institute's Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative focuses on collecting practices in Mexico and the United States, when Hollywood luminaries and international collectors developed a taste for ancient Mexican art. By the 1960s, the pre-Hispanic past underpinned Mexican national identity, gained new audiences in international museums, and played a formal role in the history of art.

Este programa está disponible también en español
youtu.be/SDFwBpu69JI

Program Schedule
https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/phapi_program.pdf

The Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative documents and analyzes the commodification and mobilization of pre-Hispanic art and material culture by the international art market between the mid-19th and late-20th centuries.

This program is part of the GRI's Untold Stories series, which celebrates the "untold stories" of visual culture, exploring how new works, people, and interpretations can shed new light on our understanding of and appreciation for the history of art.

This event occurred on April 28, 2022.

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Coleccionando Arte Mesoamericano, 1940-1968: forjar un mercado en los Estados Unidos y México

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-14 | El segundo simposio internacional de la Iniciativa sobre la procedencia del arte prehispánico (PHAPI) del Getty Research Institute se centra en las prácticas del coleccionismo en México y de los Estados Unidos, cuando las luminarias de Hollywood y los coleccionistas internacionales desarrollaron un gusto por el arte mexicano antiguo. Para la década de 1960, el pasado prehispánico era parte integral de la identidad nacional mexicana, ganó nuevas audiencias en museos internacionales y jugó un papel formal en la historia del arte.

This program is also available in English
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Horario del programa: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/phapi_program.pdf

La Iniciativa por la Procedencia del Arte Prehispánico (PHAPI), documenta y analiza la mercantilización y movilización del arte prehispánico y la cultura material por el comercio internacional del arte entre mediados del siglo XIX y finales del XX.

Este programa forma parte de la serie de Historias No Contadas [Untold Stories] del Instituto de la Investigación del Getty (GRI), que celebra las "historias no contadas" de la cultura visual, explorando cómo las nuevas obras, personas e interpretaciones pueden iluminar nuestro entendimiento y el aprecio a la historia del arte.

Este evento ocurrió el 28 de abril de 2022.

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Coleccionando Arte Mesoamericano, 1940-1968: forjar un mercado en los Estados Unidos y México

Getty Research Institute 2022-06-14 | El segundo simposio internacional de la Iniciativa sobre la procedencia del arte prehispánico (PHAPI) del Getty Research Institute se centra en las prácticas del coleccionismo en México y de los Estados Unidos, cuando las luminarias de Hollywood y los coleccionistas internacionales desarrollaron un gusto por el arte mexicano antiguo. Para la década de 1960, el pasado prehispánico era parte integral de la identidad nacional mexicana, ganó nuevas audiencias en museos internacionales y jugó un papel formal en la historia del arte.

This program is also available in English
youtu.be/m4BucLGaeGM

Horario del programa: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/phapi_program.pdf

La Iniciativa por la Procedencia del Arte Prehispánico (PHAPI), documenta y analiza la mercantilización y movilización del arte prehispánico y la cultura material por el comercio internacional del arte entre mediados del siglo XIX y finales del XX.

Este programa forma parte de la serie de Historias No Contadas [Untold Stories] del Instituto de la Investigación del Getty (GRI), que celebra las "historias no contadas" de la cultura visual, explorando cómo las nuevas obras, personas e interpretaciones pueden iluminar nuestro entendimiento y el aprecio a la historia del arte.

Este evento ocurrió el 28 de abril de 2022.

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Getty Graduate Symposium 2022: Session III (Video 3 of 3)

Getty Research Institute 2022-05-23 | Getty Research Institute hosts the fourth 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 one day, the symposium includes nine individual presentations and panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors.

Welcome and Introductions
Mary E. Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute

Session III
- Claudia Grego March, University of California,
Santa Barbara, "Your Fight, My Fight, Our Fight: The Spanish Exiled
Avant-Garde and The Cuban Revolution During the
Francoist Dictatorship"
Introduced by: Laurie Monahan, University of California, Santa Barbara

- Isabel Frampton Wade, University of Southern California, “Harry Drinkwater, the Watts Uprising, and the Limits of Architectural Photography"
Introduced by: Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California

- Shoghig Halajian, University of California, San Diego, "Destroying the Form: On the Performative Politics of rafa esparza’s bust. a meditation on freedom"
Introduced by: Alena Williams, University of California, San Diego

Session III Discussion
Moderated by Laurie Monahan, University of California, Santa Barbara

This event took place over Zoom on February 5, 2022.

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Getty Graduate Symposium 2022: Session II (Video 2 of 3)

Getty Research Institute 2022-05-23 | Getty Research Institute hosts the fourth 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 one day, the symposium includes nine individual presentations and panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors.

Welcome and Introductions
Mary E. Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute

Session II

-Connor Hamm, University of California, Los Angeles, "Destination Plantation"
Introduced by: Saloni Mathur, University of California, Los Angeles

-Zoe Weldon-Yochim, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Revisiting Trinity: Patrick Nagatani’s Nuclear Enchantment and the Temporality of Trauma"
Introduced by: T.J. Demos, University of California, Santa Cruz

-Kathie Foley-Meyer, University of California, Irvine, "The Art of Ocean Memory: Exploring the Temporality and Territoriality of Blackness"
Introduced by: Bridget Cooks, University of California, Irvine

Session II Discussion
Moderated by Saloni Mathur, University of California,
Los Angeles

This event took place over Zoom on February 5, 2022.

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Getty Graduate Symposium 2022: Session I (Video 1 of 3)

Getty Research Institute 2022-05-23 | Getty Research Institute hosts the fourth 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 one day, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, and panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors.

Welcome and Introductions
Mary E. Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute

Session I
- Harleen Kaur Bagga, Stanford University, "Past/Present/Future: Representing Alterity in the Catalan Atlas"
Introduced by: Emanuele Lugli, Stanford University

- Molly Bond, University of California, Riverside, “Between the Arts”: Spaces of Relief in the Late Cinquecento"
Introduced by: Jeanette Kohl, University of California, Riverside

- Susan Eberhard, University of California, Berkeley, "The Emergent World in an Ambivalent Vessel: The Asian Silver Chocolatiére"
Introduced by: Margaretta Lovell, University of California, Berkeley

Session I Discussion
Moderated by Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern
California

This event took place over Zoom on February 5, 2022.

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Gala Porras-Kim: Artist Talk

Getty Research Institute 2022-05-19 | Visual artist Gala Porras-Kim discusses the projects she worked on during her residency at Getty Research Institute (2020–2022). Her works explore the afterlives of objects held in museum collections, and the ways they are subject to institutional paradigms of classification, conservation, and display. To address how museological frameworks obscure the ongoing spiritual life of objects, Porras-Kim offers a series of speculative interventions into how stewardship is enacted in institutional policy.

Gala Porras-Kim lives and works in Los Angeles. Recently, she has had solo exhibitions at the Amant Foundation and Kadist in New York, Gasworks London, the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard. She has also presented works at the São Paulo Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial.

This program is part of The Fragment series, which explores how fragments have long catalyzed the study of visual culture while also continuing to inform contemporary views of society and art.

This event occurred on May 13, 2022.

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Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940

Getty Research Institute 2022-05-09 | Drawing from her publication, Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 (2019), curator and professor Charlotte Vignon discusses the commercial strategies and the relationships with preeminent collectors, including J. P. Morgan, that led this prominent art and antiques dealer to dominate the transatlantic art market from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.

Charlotte Vignon is director of the French National Museum of Ceramics at Sèvres.

This program is part of the For the Field series, which brings together a range of professionals from across the arts, cultural heritage, and library sectors to promote the development of active practitioners and inspire collaboration within the community.

This event occurred on May 5, 2022.

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Dancers on Film: Maya Deren in Context

Getty Research Institute 2022-05-04 | In 1986, the film screening, "Maya Deren in Context," at The Kitchen placed the groundbreaking filmmaker among European and American avant-gardes. Yet Deren’s experimental films were also deeply influenced by the dances and rituals of Haiti, and her early work for the choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham, who studied and made dances reflective of the African diaspora in the Americas.

The third program in the film series, Dancers on Film, revisits this 1986 screening with a focus on the Black dancers in these films and the impact they had on their creative communities. In this conversation, research specialist Kristin Juarez, scholar James Smalls, and multidisciplinary artist Kandis Williams screen films—including a selection of Deren shorts, experimental films from the 1930s and 1940s, and Williams's Annexation Tango (2020)—and discuss the influence of Black dance within an ongoing lineage of experimental film.

James Smalls is professor and chair of visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research and publications consider the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexualities in the art of 19th-century Europe and in the art and visual culture of the Black diaspora.

Kandis Williams is a visual artist whose practice spans collage, sculpture, film, performance, writing, publishing, and curating. She explores and deconstructs critical theory around race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism.

Kristin Juarez is a research specialist for the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute.

The films screened were Maya Deren’s Study in Choreography for Camera (1945), an excerpt of Jean Cocteau’s Blood of Poet (1932), and Kandis Williams’ Annexation Tango (2020).

This event occurred on April 7, 2022.

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Suzanne Lacy: Between Feminism and Social Practice

Getty Research Institute 2022-04-13 | Reflecting on four decades of a singular practice in which she questions the subjects and aesthetics of performance art and how it operates in public, Suzanne Lacy presents a brief historical review of her work as well as recent projects. Lacy explores the connections between feminism and performance art, first introduced via mentors Judy Chicago and Allan Kaprow. Focusing on ethics, communication, and new art forms, she argues that contemporary social practice art draws heavily on feminist practices, including consciousness raising, expanding audiences, inclusion strategies, and naming the political in the personal.

Suzanne Lacy is a renowned pioneer in feminist, performance, and socially engaged art. Her large-scale projects span the globe and her writing includes Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art and Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics. She is a professor at Roski School of Art and Design and the University of Southern California and a resident artist at The 18th Street Art Center.

This event is moderated by Glenn Phillips, senior curator, head of exhibitions and head of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute.

This program is part of the Art History in the Making series, which brings artists, critics, curators, and scholars together to explore how both the creative practice of art-making and new discoveries in art history are provoking new questions and redefining the frontiers of the field.

This event occurred on April 12, 2022.

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The Archival Impulse in Contemporary Black Art

Getty Research Institute 2022-04-04 | Cherise Smith's Michael Ray Charles: A Retrospective is the first in-depth examination of the work of Michael Ray Charles, whose provocative paintings recast images of racism in consumer culture. The book places the artist's work in the context of the 1990s, the rise in collecting of Black "memorabilia," the challenges posed by art censorship, and Pop art among other historical trends. Following a presentation on the book, Smith discusses with Tiffany E. Barber and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw the ways contemporary artists engage with archival materials within the context of African American art history, as well as its increased institutionalization.

Cherise Smith is the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in African American Studies in the Department African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin where she is affiliated with Art History. An inaugural residential scholar of the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute, she is the author of Michael Ray Charles: A Retrospective, which won the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw holds the Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous publications, including Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker and First Ladies of the United States.

Tiffany E. Barber is assistant professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware, as well as curator-in-residence at the Delaware Contemporary. A scholar, curator and critic, her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, and the ethics of representation, focusing on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute.

This program is part of The Fragment series, which explores how fragments have long catalyzed the study of visual culture while also continuing to inform contemporary views of society and art.

This event occurred on March 31, 2022.

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Flap Book Gives a Lesson in Human Dissection

Getty Research Institute 2022-03-09 | Though they might be most familiar to us today from children’s books, some early anatomy books and broadsheets used liftable flaps. Layers of paper can be peeled back to expose ever-deeper parts of the body – from the skin to muscles, internal organs, and finally the bones. First published in 1613, 'Catoptrum microcosmicum' (or 'Microcosmic mirror') by the German physician Johannes Remmelin, with engravings by Lucas Kilian, surpassed all previous flap anatomies in its sheer number and complexity of flaps. This video is of the authorized second edition of 1619.

'Catoptrum microcosmicum' is a part of the exhibition "Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy," and is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 22, 2022 to July 10, 2022. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/anatomy/

The Sun King at Sea: A Conversation on Maritime Art and Galley Slavery

Getty Research Institute 2022-02-24 | Art historian Meredith Martin and historian Gillian Weiss discuss their new cross-disciplinary book, The Sun King at Sea, which focuses on the presence and portrayal of galley slaves, especially enslaved Muslims, during the reign of King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Examining ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints, it uncovers forced labor as a vital aspect of royal representation between France’s Mediterranean coast and its capital. The Sun King at Sea not only decenters the study of French art in this period but also challenges the assumption that human bondage had long vanished from continental France.

Meredith Martin is an associate professor at New York University. She is an art historian specializing in French art, architecture, empire, and intercultural exchange from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries.

Gillian Weiss is a professor at Case Western Reserve University. She is a historian specializing in early modern France, its relations with the Islamic world, and Mediterranean slavery.

This program is moderated by Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute, and Junko Takeda, a professor of history at Syracuse University who specializes in the histories of early modern globalization, state-building, migration, and disease.

This program is part of the GRI's Untold Stories series, which celebrates the "untold stories" of visual culture, exploring how new works, people, and interpretations can shed new light on our understanding of and appreciation for the history of art.

This event occurred on February 10, 2022.

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