Me and Ingalill having the best time.
How is it that the Getty Villa and the Getty Center were safe from the fires. Money Honey. It’s fascinating to hear and read about the safety measures implemented to protect these two irreplaceable institutions. Below is the first turn on the tram ride that takes you out of this world and into a better one. Do you remember from The Good Place? Where was The Good Place? Here. It was here.
Hip Girl, in her spot to welcome you to the Magnificent Getty Center. I’ve been collecting photos for some time now and you can click on the link if you have time for a buzz-through, or not, there are a million of ’em.
Gathering spots for the Architecture Tour and the Garden Tour. You’ll want to do them both.
On the way to the Research Institute Galleries to see Sensing the Future: This immersive exhibition tells the story of a unique mid-20th-century collaboration between artists and engineers. It explores the beginnings of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, or E.A.T., as well as two of its most pivotal projects: 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering and the iconic Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan, both of which pursued groundbreaking integrations of theater, dance, technology, and interactive, multimedia art.
This line of trees “down the garden path” is one of the few places in LA where deciduous trees are evident in numbers. I have sighed over these trees in every season, budding out, fully green, brilliant red, it’s a joy. The water feature was really rollin’ today, the sound of joy.
Not much color there in the gardens this week in early February. Even the bougainvillea rebar trees are feeling it for brown.
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One of the PST Art exhibits focuses on Van Gogh’s Irises painting, a highlight of the Getty collection.
They have the one that hangs in the gallery on the left and you can sense that the violets are much bluer, less purple, than the one on the right which, after extensive examination, is the Getty’s idea of the original colors. The two pieces are now hanging in a room dedicated to this investigation, on different walls though, with information and visuals showing the science behind the color choices. Is the room lighting the same for the two pictures since they are on different walls? So much goes into our perception of color.
Here’s a small side-by-side off the internet.
Lunch! YUM!!
