Art Rambles (page 3)


July 20, 2009

Head of a camel+body of a snake=?

DRAGON! Today, textile conservator Yadin Larochette visited us at the Scripps Gallery. =) She examined a couple pieces of our textile collection, many which had DRAGONS on them. Don’t we all love dragons! Patricia taught us that the dragon is a mixture of different animals, and so I decided to check just how many different […]

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July 17, 2009

Designing exhibitions…designing our future…

The Getty currently hosted an Arts Summit for the Multicultural Interns from 80+ organizations this past Monday. …as explained by Jasmine in her entry “The…Getty!”. One of the most exciting and memorable experiences I had that day was the tour of the Design Studios. The tour was limited to about 9 or 10 interns. Now […]

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July 16, 2009

The.. Getty!

This Monday (July 13th), we Getty interns made a trip out to the LA Getty Center for the Getty Foundation’s M(ulticultural)U(ndergraduate)I(nternship) Arts Summit. Dang, that sounds fancy. It was basically a career day / meet-all-the-other-100+-Getty-interns-day. Janet Mota who works at the botannical garden was kind enough to drive. I’m so glad I had the chance […]

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August 12, 2008

When New Beginnings Come to the End

Not everyone gets to say that they had the perfect last day at a job, but I think that Rody and I have the privilege of being able to truly say that today was perfect.One of the reasons that this internship was such an incredible experience is that Mary takes us out on field trips […]

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August 11, 2008

Fare thee well ogre(s)…

It’s never easy to say good-bye…So I won’t. I just want to let you guys know that I’ll miss you. It has been a real pleasure working with all of you this summer and I hope to see you again during the year. Thank you guys for being so wacky, sweet, and honest for the […]

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The Writing Blues

Writing has always been something that I’ve done, ever since I was little.I remember writing stuff in elementary school. It was mostly fanciful, childish nonsense, but I remember writing it anyway. I grew up keeping an array of different journals and diaries and notebooks full with short stories, but I don’t really think that I’ve […]

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August 8, 2008

It’s been a while

Wow. It’s been a long time since any one of us actually looked at this and considered writing something.I only have 2 days left at this internship, and when I think about it, it makes me pretty sad. In many ways, I’m ready to stop working, start RA training and get ready for the semester […]

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July 30, 2008

An Earthquake and 108 Books with Holes in Their Centers

What does it take to drill a hole in the center of a book?Kirk, a drill press, 4 interns and an earthquake, apparently.Today was possibly the most memorable day of my entire time working at the gallery (well, it’s right up there with the day that I held the gallery’s Diane Arbus for the first […]

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July 25, 2008

Digitize This

What’s with all the digitization?Everything from newspapers to slides in the slide library to magazines to museums collections are being digitized, and it’s pretty unsettling- specially for all of us old fogeys who love everything in print and on paper. We were talking with Kirk the other day and he definitely wishes that everything wasn’t […]

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July 24, 2008

On Growing Old

I think it’s time I post something. Sim thought it was time a month ago. I haven’t written in large part because I haven’t known what to write about, haven’t felt inspired. But I think I’m ready. Sim, this one’s for you:This summer, and especially during the past couple of days, I’ve been thinking a […]

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