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Tours and Gallery Talks November 26, 2013 Garden Tour Daily 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm Getty Center The gardens of the Getty are the focus of this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outsideat the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum. Spotlight of the Week Daily, November 26 - December 1, 2013 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm Museum Galleries, Getty Center What was written..

Metzker's Photographic Journey Ray K. Metzker (born 1931) is known for finely crafted black-and-white prints that probe photography's expressive potential through multiple and composite images, high contrast, and selective focus.Metzker's work is part of a revered tradition that emerged from the experimental approach of Chicago's Institute of Design (ID), where he received his graduate degree in..

Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China Jeffrey W. Cody Brought to Asia by Europeans in the early 1840s, photography was both a witness to the dramatic cultural changes taking place in China and a catalyst to further modernization. Employing both ink brush and camera, Chinese painters adapted the new medium, grafting it onto traditional aesthetic conventions. This exhibition features work..

Jean-Léon Gérôme The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, about 1863–83. Walters Art Museum Marc Gotlieb, director of the graduate program in the history of art at Williams College, introduces Jean-Léon Gérôme's paintings through the lens of modern cinema. This perspective—characterized by Hollywood and its approach to storytelling and suspense—brings to life pictures that once capt..

When Buildings Become Symbols The Getty Center Illuminated manuscripts offer some of the best records of medieval architecture's soaring cathedrals and grand castles. The built environment permeated life in the Middle Ages, and artists manipulated the forms of buildings in their illuminations to tell stories and to convey the meaning of these impressive structures to the people who lived within ..