The Getty’s long-deferred Franz Xaver Messerschmidt show is back on track with a new twist. The title will be “Messerschmidt and Modernity,” and it will run July 24 to Oct. 14, 2012.
The Getty had planned to participate in the Messerschmidt retrospective that appeared at Neue Galerie in New York and the Louvre in 2010-2011. It was forced to drop out as part of the Trust’s belt-tightening after the 2008 stock market crash. The reinvented exhibition will present Messerschmidt’s character heads alongside more contemporary grimaces and funny faces (such as Cindy Sherman’s #421, above right).
Also coming to the Getty this summer: “Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line,” a major drawing show marking the artist’s 150 birthday, co-organized with the Albertina in Vienna.
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The Getty has no clue about what is Modern and is only getting involved in contempt art to improve its board members art portfolios. Stick with pre Modern world
Or doing your prime directive saving old and in need structures, like your very own backyard Watts towers. What a waste, traveling the world in search of cred when it sits right here in your backyard. For shame.
It has been a year and ha hafl, and nothing from LACMA, except two tour buses and using Nuestro Pueblo for fundraising purposes, but not a dime to Our Town.
And Cindy Sherman is narcissism incarnate. Shallow, souless, immature, and exhibitionist. she was dumb when she came out and i was taking photo in the 70s, gotten even worse as her egos explodes.