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Your wish is our command. 🪄 Aquarium of the Pacific 🐋
Does Parker's rendition of Van Gogh's Irises get your seal(ion) of approval?
Screenshot of a Spotify playlist curated by DJ Novena Carmel for Getty's new photography exhibition on the Black Arts Movement (1955–1985).
We also asked her to make us a playlist! Listen while you read Novena's interview: gty.art/pbamplaylist
Photo of people cheering in a crowd while being addressed by Martin Luther King Jr. in Philadelphia.
The music of revolution is so much more than protest songs—revolutions are also often soundtracked by songs of hope, love, and joy.
We met with KCRW's Novena Carmel to how artists and activists use photography and music as tools for social change: https://gty.art/403WTf0
You are still welcome to explore the Scores project online www.getty.edu/publications...
Getty will grant funding to institutions around Southern California to develop their own projects around this theme.
Previous PST iterations have touched on the intersection of art and science, Los Angeles and Latinx art, and Art in Los Angeles 1945–1980. gty.art/4ubPckG
A painting of a large arched bridge silhouetted against a deep blue sky with a full moon centered beneath the arch and trees framing the scene. Text reads: PST ART, Southern California's largest arts collaboration will return in 2030. Full story at getty.edu/news
We're excited to announce that PST ART, Southern California's largest arts collaboration, will return in 2030. The theme will explore the artistic and cultural exchange between Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim.
Full announcement: gty.art/4ubPckG
Interested in art exhibitions?
Explore what’s on:
www.getty.edu/exhibitions/
Ever Present: Mary Halvorson—CANIS MAJOR
With CANIS MAJOR, expect a live set that moves like a living organism: intricate compositions opening into flights of spontaneous invention.
March 31 at 7pm at the Getty Center
www.getty.edu/calendar/eve...
Superpower Portraits: Collage Workshop
Explore collage techniques & transform recycled materials into vibrant Superpower Portraits that celebrate the identities, traditions, & talents that make our community strong.
March 22 starting at 11am at the Getty Center
www.getty.edu/calendar/sup...
Ever Present: Fac Xtra Retreat (FXR)—24-HOUR CARE
In 24-HOUR CARE, FXR asks what it means to care—for their students, their children, their elders, their community, and for each other.
March 15 starting at 10am at the Getty Center
www.getty.edu/calendar/eve...
Selected Shorts: Virtue & Vice
Join us for two captivating performances as actors of stage and screen bring literature to life through readings of humorous and poignant tales of saints, sinners, and everyone in between.
March 14 at 3pm and 7pm at the Getty Center
www.getty.edu/calendar/sel...
Roman Garden: Seed Ball Workshop
Celebrate nature and get your hands delightfully dirty in this seed ball-making workshop.
This event is presented in English and Spanish
March 14 at 11am at the Getty Villa Museum
www.getty.edu/calendar/rom...
Patrons and Priestesses: The Lives of Women in Ancient Pompeii
Among the remarkable discoveries in Pompeii are the names of nearly 800 women who lived and worked there, shaping this vibrant community.
March 12 at 12pm. Online
www.getty.edu/calendar/pat...
Opening the Vault: Conservation’s Role in (re) Thinking Access to Collections
Panelists will share their perspectives on what collection access, preservation, and public interaction.
March 10 at 3pm at the Getty Center and Online
www.getty.edu/calendar/ope...
Artist-at-Work: Figure Drawing
Join artist Peter Zokosky for live drawing demonstrations. Meet the artist, ask questions, and discover different materials and techniques for drawing people.
March 8 starting at 11:30 at the Getty Center
www.getty.edu/calendar/art...
Getty Drawing Days
Do you like to draw? Join us for this fun, drop-in drawing event. Guest artists offer guidance and materials are provided—just bring your curiosity and creativity.
March 8 starting at 11am at the Getty Center
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Sounds of LA: Jimetta Rose & the Voices of Creation
Blending the power of gospel choir with jazz, soul, & fun, Jimetta Rose & the Voices of Creation create uplifting performances coming together to heal the soul.
March 7 at 7pm & March 8 at 4pm at the Getty Center
www.getty.edu/calendar/sou...
Variations on a Theme: Benjamin Patterson’s Scores
Join us for an evening to consider the art and legacy of Benjamin Patterson, a postwar experimentalist of sound and performance.
March 6 at 5pm at the Getty Center
www.getty.edu/calendar/var...
Looking for more art and culture in your life? There’s a Getty event for you! Performances, drawing lessons, artist talks, and more!
www.getty.edu/calendar/
📍 Catch a glimpse of the afterlife—explore the Book of the Dead up close at the Getty Villa Museum through November 30, 2026.
www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
If the Book of the Dead isn't a book, what is it? 🤔
#BookOfTheDead #AncientEgypt
Join us for an evening to consider the art and legacy of Benjamin Patterson.
Variations on a Theme: Benjamin Patterson’s Scores
March 6 at 5pm at the Getty Center.
www.getty.edu/calendar/var...
1. Performance of Benjamin Patterson’s Paper Piece at the Fluxus Festival, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, 1963, photographer unknown. Used by permission of Fondazione Bonotto. 2. Variations for Double Bass, 1961, Performed by the artist at Kleinen Sommerfest/Après John Cage, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1962, possibly by Rolf Jährling.The Museum of Modern Art. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift. © Copyright Benjamin Patterson. Photo Credit: Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY 3. Printed score of Paper Piece in English, 1960, Benjamin Patterson. Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 39, folder 33. © The Estate of Benjamin Patterson. 4. Audio sampler of Benjamin Patterson’s Paper Piece, 1960, Benjamin Patterson. © The Estate of Benjamin Patterson. Score sampler developed by Michael Gallope and produced by Greg Albers. 5. Performance of Benjamin Patterson’s Paper Piece at the Fluxus Festival, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, 1963, photographer unknown. Used by permission of Fondazione Bonotto. 6. Excerpt of Paper Piece performed by Benjamin Patterson, Ben Vautier, Alison Knowles, Eric Andersen, Willem de Ridder, Bengt af Klintberg, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Emmett Williams, and Geoffrey Hendricks, in Malmö, Sweden, 1992, Benjamin Patterson. © The Estate of Benjamin Patterson. 7. Handwritten score of Paper Piece in English on paper, 1960, Benjamin Patterson. © The Estate of Benjamin Patterson.
Learn more about Patterson’s Paper Piece and more experimental scores:
www.getty.edu/publications...
The score was intentionally ephemeral. The used ripped and crumpled paper did not hold monetary value. Nothing was created except an experience shared between the participants and audience. That was its value. It was art, and it was life.
Paper Piece is a musical score featuring experimental notation. It was designed to create complex new music that anyone could perform, with materials that are readily available (like paper) and simple instructions. Shake, break, tear, crumple, rumple, bumple, rub, scrub, twist, poof, and pop!
Aligning with Fluxus goals, Benjamin Patterson created Paper Piece in 1960.
Fluxus was an avant-garde art movement from the 1960s and ’70s formed by an international network of artists, composers, poets, and designers. They blended disciplines to challenge elitist art with humor, spontaneity, and "anti-art" sentiments. In the minds of Fluxus artists, art—in all aspects—needed to change. They challenged the process of making art, what art can be, and championed a collision of art and life.
