Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles below.
Jousting and other knightly pursuits
It's finally here, Season 2 of Becoming Artsy, Getty’s hit YouTube series! In this first episode, host Jessie Hendricks and manuscripts curator Larisa Grollemond find out what it's like to be a medieval knight ready for battle. Grollemond also tells us all about chivalry, the complex ideal created for the medieval man. If chivalry is dead, should it be revived?
Shining light on a glittering, but long-overlooked, facet of art history
In 2018 Getty launched the African American Art History Initiative, an ambitious program to establish the Getty Research Institute as a major center for the study of African American art history. Find out whose archives we’ve since acquired, who we’ve hired, and what exhibitions, oral histories, and other projects we have in the works.
10 songs that have defined the Americas
From salsa to punk rock, music keeps reinventing ideas about the continents. Think Madonna’s “La Isla Bonita” and Nino Bravo’s “América, América.” Listen to a playlist of songs from the 1960s to the present that shows how stereotypes have been repeated or rejected.
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Black photographers represent their world
Beginning in New York City in 1963, members of the Kamoinge Workshop focused on reflecting Black life through photographs. The exhibition Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop showcases members’ work from the 1960s and ’70s. In this podcast episode, artist Adger Cowans and curator Sarah Eckhardt discuss Kamoinge’s history and future as well as Working Together.