May 3, 2011 – The Getty Center has a number of events lined up this month that will bring to Los Angeles the sights, the music, and the flavor of Cuba.
May 14 at 7.30 pm will see An Evening with the Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quintet. Sosa, born and raised in Camaguey, Cuba, is well known for his fluid Afro-Latin Jazz. Along with Marque Gilmore, Childo Tomas, Peter Apfelbaum, and John Santos, the Grammy nominated pianist returns to the Getty as a complement to the exhibition listed below. Tickets to the Omar Sosa music night are $15/$20 and can be purchased at http://tickets.getty.edu/show_events_list.asp
The exhibit, A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, starts May 17 and will extend through October 2. It will look at three periods of Cuban history as seen through the eyes of photographers. It will unite Walker Evan’s views from the 1930s with the views of others who participated in the revolution of 1959 and with contemporary foreign artists who have visited the island in the past two decades. Besides Evan’s work, the exhibit will display photographs by Virginia Beahan, Raul Corrales, Alex Harris, Alberto Korda, Osvaldo Salas, and Alexey Titarenko. A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now is a free exhibit.
May 18 will welcome Alex Harris, whose work will be showcased in the exhibit, and Ruth Behar, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba. They will discuss their respective projects and how they express the voice of Cuba. This event will be at the Harold Williams Auditorium at 7 pm.
June 11 and June 18 will offer a gallery course: Picturing Cuba—Photography in Context. This course places the photographic legacy of the Cuban Revolution in perspective, framed by the allure of Cuba to foreign photographers and independent Cuban photography. Session I will convene at the Getty Center to view the exhibition A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now in the context of the 1930s through the 1970s. Session 2 will convene at the Museum of Latin American Art to focus on photography in Cuba from the 1980s to the present. Course fee $35; $25 students and MOLAA members. Open to 30 participants. Part 1: Saturday, June 11, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at the Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall and Museum Galleries, Getty Center / Part 2: Saturday, June 18, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at the Museum of Latin American Art.
Also on June 11 - Cameraman Alexander Calzatti (I Am Cuba) and photographer Natasha Calzatti share their behind-the-camera experiences of Cuba as they present an in-gallery exploration of the exhibition. Sign-up begins at 1:00 at the Museum Information Desk. This event will be held at the Museum Galleries at 2.30 pm
Also on June 11 - FILMS - Our Man in Havanna (1960, directed by Carol Reed) will show at 3:00 p.m. and I Am Cuba (1964, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov) at 7:00 p.m. Films will showcase at the Harold Williams auditorium.
June 12 will show Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) at 12:00 p.m. and Lucia (1969, directed by Humberto Solas) at 3:00 p.m. Films will showcase at the Harold Williams auditorium
July 21 will present Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez, a Havana-based architect, urban planner, and professor of design. He will discuss the trends and influences in Cuban architecture during his lecture Echoes of the Avant Garde: Cuban Architecture from the 1930s to the 1960s. This event will be held at the Harold Williams Auditorium at 7 pm.
August 25 will welcome a panel of artists and scholars who will discuss how pictures have shaped the way Americans imagine Cuba, in How Do Americans Imagine Cuba? This event will be held at the Harold M. Williams Auditorium at 7 pm
Also on August 25 - Culinary Workshop: Taste of Cuba - Course fee $75. Open to 20 participants.10:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. (Repeats Friday, August 26) GettyCenter: Private Dining Room
Also on August 25 at 2.30 pm - Curator’s Gallery Talk - Judy Keller, senior curator of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition. (Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall for this event)
All discussions, lectures, and films are free of charge. However, reservations are required. Call 310.440.7300 to reserve. Parking at Getty Center is $15.
Information on these events and more at http://www.getty.edu
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