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Question of the Week: Does Art Have to Be Serious?
Self-Portrait, Yawning, Joseph Ducreux, before 1783. Oil on canvas, 45 x 35 in. Nowadays, seeing a silly picture of a person is hardly unusual. Showing personality is a good thing. Social customs...
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Getty Center Closes, Art Takes the Weekend Off!
It’s a lot of pressure, day after day, holding the same pose. I’ve been standing up, staring at the underside of a ringing bell for years now. I love hanging out with my pal Saint Anthony, but how can...
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Getty Voices: The Ancient Funny
Hey, what’s so funny? For April Fool’s Week (yes, we now declare it a week), Getty Voices features educator and Roman-history geek par excellence Eric Bruehl on humor in ancient Greece and Rome. The...
View ArticleCurator’s Talk on James Ensor Is a Gas
What is it like to curate a show on one of the most baffling, cantankerous, elusive artists ever to put brush to canvas? Join the curator of the exhibition The Scandalous Art of James Ensor, Scott...
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Casing This Museum Is Child’s Play
The Getty’s director of security takes apart the LEGO® “Museum Break-In” set With the holiday gift-giving season upon us, I’d like to point out a rather surprising toy that became available this past...
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The Naughtier Side of French Printmaking
Art in Louis XIV’s day wasn’t all grandiosity and splendor. Bare bums, harried housewives, and cunning schemers also star in French prints of the era Louis XIV’s arrival at the Getty this summer—in the...
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Comedian Kate Berlant Answers Our Questions about Inspiration
A conversation touching on Jim Carrey, Kabuki theater, and the grotesque faces of James Ensor Comedian Kate Berlant recently visited the Getty to perform at Friday Flights, a series of eclectic...
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Getty Staff Weighs In on Their New Year’s Resolutions
Let’s drive the Far West, cook weird artists’ recipes, and bribe our kids with frozen yogurt to go to museums More of this in 2016. Photo at the Hammer Museum courtesy of Amy Hood Every December, we...
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Comestibles—With a Side of Comedy—in Medieval and Renaissance Theater
Feasting, gluttony, and foodie fantasies were played out on stage with tall tales and raunchy humor Gluttony and bad behavior, Renaissance style: Description of the Land of Cockaigne, Where Whoever...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Does Art Have to Be Serious?
Nowadays, seeing a silly picture of a person is hardly unusual. Showing personality is a good thing. Social customs weren’t quite the same in 18th-century France, when Joseph Ducreux painted this...
View ArticleGetty Center Closes, Art Takes the Weekend Off!
It’s a lot of pressure, day after day, holding the same pose. I’ve been standing up, staring at the underside of a ringing bell for years now. I love hanging out with my pal Saint Anthony, but how can...
View ArticleGetty Voices: The Ancient Funny
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A Greek, a Roman, and a priest walk into a bar...
View ArticleCurator’s Talk on James Ensor Is a Gas
What you need to know about James Ensor, in 12 minutes.
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