Ian Svenonius—punk rock provocateur and author of Censorship Now!!—brings Escape-ism, his first solo project, to the Getty Center this weekend.
IAN SVENONIUS—ESCAPE-ISM
Friday, August 17, after 6 pm, as part of Friday Flights
GETTY CENTER, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.
Top: Ian Svenonius, photographed on April 16, 2017 at Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C., by Mike Maguire.
Below: Svenonius photographed by Karl Walter.
“Designing is my art and my therapy. It brings me joy to make stuff… I design based off of emotion and how I feel, and what’s going on in my community around me.” — Pierre Davis, No Sesso*
That community will meet at the Getty Center on Friday night when No Sesso debuts a site-specific presentation in the courtyard, joined by cellist and vocalist Kelsey Lu.
Friday, August 17.
FRIDAY FLIGHTS, 6 pm to 9 pm.
Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.
*”Warm Bodies, No Sesso—The Art of Pierre Davis,” text by Barlo Perry, interview with No Sesso by Dorothée Perret and Todd Cole, PARIS LA 16 (2018): 136–143.
Above: PARIS LA 16 (2018), No Sesso Fall 2017 collection. Photograph by Todd Cole.
Below: PARIS LA 16 (2018), No Sesso 2018-1 campaign. Photograph by Dicko Chan.
In conjunction with the exhibition ICONS OF STYLE—A CENTURY OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, 1911–2011, Beverly Johnson will join Cheryl Tiegs and Patricia Velasquez for ICONS SPEAK—MODELS ON FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY.
ICONS SPEAK—MODELS ON FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
Wednesday, August 1, at 7 pm.
HAROLD WILLIAMS AUDITORIUM, GETTY CENTER, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.
Above: Cheryl Tiegs in a Gown by Halston, Brasilia, 1973. Photograph by Kourken Pakchanian. Gelatin silver print, courtesy of the Getty Center and Condé Nast. © Condé Nast/Vogue, December 1, 1973.
Below: Beverly Johnson walks for Halston in the 1970s.
A beautiful new exhibition of artists’ books is up now at the Getty Center.
The exhibition includes books by Nobuyoshi Araki, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tauba Auerbach, Raffaele de Bernardi, Sandow Birk, Andrea Bowers, Chris Burden, Jan Činčera, Johanna Drucker, Dave Eggers, Felipe Ehrenberg, Olafur Eliasson, Timothy C. Ely, Barbara Fahrner, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Jennifer A. González, Katharina Grosse, Robert Heinecken, Leandro Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Daniel E. Kelm, Anselm Kiefer, Monika Kulicka, Sol LeWitt, Russell Maret, Didier Mutel, Katherine Ng, Clemente Padín, Felicia Rice, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell, Barbara T. Smith, Keith A. Smith, Buzz Spector, Beth Thielen, Gustavo Vazquez, Cecilia Vicuña, Ines von Ketelhodt, Zachary James Watkins, William Wegman, and Tian Wei.
ARTISTS AND THEIR BOOKS–BOOKS AND THEIR ARTISTS, through October 28.
GETTY CENTER—RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.
Above: Poetrie, Dieter Roth, 1967. The Getty Research Institute. © Dieter Roth Estate. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
Below: Stab/Ghost, Tauba Auerbach, 2013. The Getty Research Institute. © Tauba Auerbach. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
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On Wednesday night, Geoff Dyer will talk about his new book, THE STREET PHILOSOPHY OF GARRY WINOGRAND, a selection of one-hundred photographs that has been called “a lesson in the pleasures of seeing” and “an inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text.”
GEOFF DYER—THE STREET PHILOSOPHY OF GARRY WINOGRAND, Wednesday, March 21, at 7 pm.
WILLIAMS AUDITORIUM, GETTY CENTER, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.
See: theguardian.com/street-philosophy-garry-winogrand-geoff-dyer
utpress.utexas.edu/dyer-street-philosophy-of-garry-winogrand
Above: Garry Winogrand, Couple in Convertible, Los Angeles, 1964. Image credit: Getty Museum.
Book credit: University of Texas Press.
