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Getty Museum Exhibition Brings Together Works by Watteau in Los Angeles Collections

On view November 23, 2021–February 20, 2022, La Surprise: Watteau in Los Angeles explores the work by the greatest French painter and draftsman Jean Antoine Watteau Scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and characters from the commedia dell’arte (the Italian comic theater) were favorite subjects of French painter Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). His paintings do not so much tell a story as they … Continue reading Getty Museum Exhibition Brings Together Works by Watteau in Los Angeles Collections

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GETTY VILLA MUSEUM PRESENTS FEMINIST RETELLING OF PANDORA’S BOX MYTH

Virtual play-reading co-produced with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Pandora Now until March 19, 2021 The Getty Villa Museum presents a FREE virtual play-reading of Pandora, the story of Pandora’s Box by acclaimed playwright Laurel Ollstein, co-produced with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. In Pandora, Ollstein retells the Pandora’s Box myth from a feminist perspective and asks: What if a woman was suddenly created and dropped into the middle … Continue reading GETTY VILLA MUSEUM PRESENTS FEMINIST RETELLING OF PANDORA’S BOX MYTH

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