Calendar of Events: June
Lectures:
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June 5-Pericles of Athens and the Dangers of Democracy
8 pm in the Auditorium, Getty Villa; reservations required
The "Golden Age of Athens" is closely associated with the statesman Pericles, who led the city during a period of unprecedented political, artistic, intellectual, and literary revolution. Loren J. Samons II, professor and chairman of Classical Studies at Boston University, questions how much praise Pericles himself and Athenian democracy deserve for Athens' achievements in the second half of the 5th century BC, and how much blame for the Peloponnesian War, which devastated Greece and mortally wounded the independent Hellenic city-state. -
June 12-13: Cultural Identity and the Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean from 9am to 6pm both days in Getty Villa auditorium; reservations required.
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two-day international conference at the Getty Villa explores how ancient
peoples expressed their identities by establishing, constructing, or
inventing links with other societies that crossed traditional ethnic and
geographic lines. This conference is the culmination of the 2007–2008
Villa Scholars Program, organized around the work of Villa Professor
Erich Gruen.
Continuing Exhibits:
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April 6-September 1: "Phantom Sightings-Art after the Chicano Movement" at LACMA
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement is the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at LACMA. Chicano art, traditionally described as work created by Americans of Mexican descent, was established as a politically and culturally inspired movement during the counterculture revolutions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This exhibition explores the more experimental tendencies within the Chicano art movement—ones oriented less toward painting and declarative polemical assertion than toward conceptual art, performance, film, photo- and media-based art, and "stealthy" artistic interventions in urban spaces.
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April 10-July 6: "Doctrinal Nourishment-Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor" at LACMA
Focusing on a rare impression of one of James Ensor’s most important and politically subversive etchings, Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor will bring The Doctrinal Nourishment (1889–1895) together with approximately sixty works on paper selected from LACMA’s significant holdings in Ensor and German Expressionist prints, as well as from key local institutions and private collections.
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April 13-July 14: "Lawrence Weiner-As Far As The Eye Can See" at the Geffen Contemporary
The first major United States retrospective of the work of New York-based artist Lawrence Weiner (b.1942, Bronx, NY), one of the key figures associated with the emergence and foundations of conceptual art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE provides a comprehensive examination of Weiner’s remarkable and cohesive oeuvre, assembling key selections and bodies of work from throughout his 40-year career.
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April 25-December 8: "Marcel Duchamp Redux" at the Norton Simon
This year marks the 45th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s legendary retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, now the Norton Simon Museum. The installation Marcel Duchamp Redux features a dozen Duchamp works acquired by the Museum during and after the 1963 exhibition, as well as photographs and ephemera from the retrospe
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March 6-June 23: "The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present" at the Getty Villa.
Focusing on representations of the human figure, this exhibition explores the role of color in sculpture and its place in Western taste. Ancient, medieval, and early Renaissance statues were regularly painted, but Neoclassical collecting interests and aesthetic concerns have privileged monochrome marble and bronze. Following recent research on ancient pigments, The Color of Life includes a variety of masterpieces that reveal the lifelike qualities of polychrome statues fashioned over the course of four millennia. -
March 6-June 27: "Chinaman's Chance: Views of the Chinese American Experience" at the Asian Pacific Museum in Pasadena.
Three contemporary artists will examine the diverse Chinese American experience from the days of the Transcontinental Railroad’s construction to today.
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March 7-August 18: "Maillol's Miniatures" at the Norton Simon.
More than thirty sculptures by artist Aristide Maillol (French, 1861-1944); examines small-scale sculptures by Maillol which are not normally on view. These works, some of them artist’s proofs, were used by Maillol as study pieces, and thus provide a better understanding of the artist’s working methods.
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March 25-August 10: "Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera" at the Getty Center.
This exhibition of notable acquisitions that have entered the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in the past ten years brings together two complementary aspects of the medium of photography: a "painterly" approach used by many artists to set their work apart from that of practitioners of a more documentary style, and the apparatus integral to the resulting pictures.
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