For classical pianist and activist Lara Downes, Romare Bearden’s collage is a puzzle full of questions and unfinished business. In response, she brings together different musical sources, overlaying sounds to create both harmony and tension.
Nelson is professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where
This panel is one of two owned by the National Gallery of Art from one of the most important monuments of Western painting: the towering, two-sided altarpiece known as the Maestà by Duccio di Buoninsegna .
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain works with performance poet Lady Caress to respond to this iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hopes to capture pain, legacy, enduring hope—and the rhythm of the subject’s life.
Brookman was a museum fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles from
A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973.
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. This panel is part of a triptych painted by two artists:
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. This panel is part of a triptych painted by two artists:
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; formerly in the collection of Patrick de Charmant
Sandro Botticelli, a Florentine, painted several versions of the theme of the Adoration of the Magi. The Magi, or wise men, were particularly venerated in Florence, as one of the city’s leading religious confraternities was dedicated to them.
In 2012 The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, acquired the M.
London, 1975), 3:200–201; Terisio Pignatti, Golden Century of Venetian Painting (Los
Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in recent years (no. 93.PB.16). Cf.
