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The art of friendship
In 1965 accountant Sidney Felsen asked his former USC fraternity brother, Stanley Grinstein, if he would like to change gears with him and start a lithography studio. Their shop, Gemini G.E.L., would become a place of inspiration for Felsen, whose photographs of artists and printers are now on view in First Came a Friendship: Sidney B. Felsen and the Artists at Gemini G.E.L.
Felsen's shots of artists at work and play
How Getty’s African American Art History Initiative is making history
Since 2018, Getty’s African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI) has been collecting the stories of a vanguard generation of Black artists. AAAHI’s ongoing oral history project explores how Black artists remember, record, and rewrite history, and offers fascinating stories you won’t find anywhere else.
David C. Driskell, Ulysses Jenkins, and other Black artists tell their stories
Video: J. Paul Getty’s treasured Hercules
Celebrate 50 years of the Getty Villa Museum with this Close Looking video about J. Paul Getty’s beloved Statue of Hercules (Lansdowne Herakles). As Curatorial Assistant of Antiquities Nicole Budrovich tells us, “Getty was such a fan of this piece that he nerded out and wrote a fan-fiction novella for it.”
First Came a Friendship: Sidney B. Felsen and the Artists at Gemini G.E.L.
Through July 7, 2024
The photographs of Sidney B. Felsen document the history of Gemini G.E.L., the Los Angeles artists’ workshop and publisher of limited-edition prints and sculpture. Presenting Felsen’s photographs alongside Gemini editions spanning five decades, this exhibition explores the joys and demands of the creative process and chronicles friendships with artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Julie Mehretu.
A Rome of One’s Own: Putting Women Back into Roman History
Friday, March 8, 11:00 am PT
Online only
Vestal Virgins to business owners, on the empire's front lines and in its palaces, women were as much a part of Roman society as men. To celebrate International Women’s Day, historian Emma Southon explores what it was like to be a woman in the Roman empire.
Get tickets to this free online event
Sargent Claude Johnson at The Huntington
Rediscover Sargent Claude Johnson, the California artist whose sensitive, uplifting portrayals of people of color made him the West Coast’s key connection to the Harlem Renaissance. The Huntington’s sweeping exhibition of Johnson’s powerful works spans the Great Depression to the Civil Rights Movement and includes masks, sculptures, and monumental public commissions.