{"id":2790,"date":"2011-02-07T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/02\/mapplethorpe-to-getty-and-lacma\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T17:55:09","slug":"mapplethorpe-to-getty-and-lacma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/07\/mapplethorpe-to-getty-and-lacma\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapplethorpe To Getty and LACMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/02\/los-angeles-to-become-home-to-robert-mapplethorpe-work-and-archive.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: 14px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-header\" style=\"font-size: 26px; font-weight: 100; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/02\/los-angeles-to-become-home-to-robert-mapplethorpe-work-and-archive.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Los Angeles to become home to Robert Mapplethorpe work and archive [Updated]\" style=\"font-weight: 100; color: #000000; text-decoration: none\">Los Angeles to become home to Robert Mapplethorpe work and archive [Updated]<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e2643c28970b-pi\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #2262cc; text-decoration: underline; float: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e2643c28970b-320wi\" alt=\"Gtc_mapplethorpe-gri0003\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e2643c28970b\" title=\"Gtc_mapplethorpe-gri0003\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-width: 0px\" \/><\/a>As of this summer, Los Angeles will become the leading destination for anyone interested in artist Robert Mapplethorpe, thanks to a joint acquisition just finalized by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none\">\u00a0Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none\">J. Paul Getty Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition includes more than 2,000 works by the artist, \u201cincluding a print of virtually every photograph he editioned in silver gelatin,\u201d according to the museums. Silver gelatin is the process by which he made his most widely known work, black and white photographs.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes the Mapplethorpe archive, featuring one-of-a-kind silver gelatin prints, thousands of Polaroid studies for his work, personal correspondence to intimates such as Patti Smith, and documentation of the 1990 obscenity trial in Cincinnati that made Mapplethorpe a central figure in that decade\u2019s culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/02\/los-angeles-to-become-home-to-robert-mapplethorpe-work-and-archive.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Los Angeles to become home to Robert Mapplethorpe work and archive [Updated] As of this summer, Los Angeles will become the leading destination for anyone interested in artist Robert Mapplethorpe, thanks to a joint acquisition just finalized by the\u00a0Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u00a0and the\u00a0J. Paul Getty Trust. The acquisition includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}