Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles below.
A house of air and light
Ray and Charles Eames built the “Eames House” in 1949 as part of the Case Study House Program, an influential postwar effort to design affordable modern housing. The home, high on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, has become a pilgrimage site for architects and lovers of modern architecture. Find out what makes this house so special, and how conservators are working to keep it safe and open to the next generations of admirers.
What did the Middle Ages sound like?
Inspired by the new Getty Center exhibition The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, we’ve compiled a list of soundtracks from movies with medieval themes—among them A Knight’s Tale, Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Close your eyes and let the music inspire your own medieval imaginings, or listen as you browse the exhibition.
Reconnecting with...
This new Getty Center exhibition presents 20 photographs selected from a nationwide open call inviting teens to share what reconnecting looks like during the pandemic. The photographs were also creatively reinterpreted as posters by artists affiliated with Amplifier, a nonprofit design lab. Collectively, these works highlight the ways all of us can connect, bond, and nurture ourselves and each other.
The extraordinary career of Rosa Bonheur
French artist Rosa Bonheur is widely considered the most famous woman painter of the 19th century. Breaking through confining Victorian restrictions for women, she made art a full-time occupation, identified with social freedoms reserved for men (she hunted and smoked), and boldly broke boundaries of gender expression, often wearing men’s clothing. Bonheur also had two life partners, French painter Nathalie Micas and American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke.