Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 23 through August 13

Nina Dubin proposes in this beautifully produced study of Hubert Robert's enigmatic apocalypses a new understanding of how late-eighteenth-century aesthetics responded to the precarious temporality of dislocations that redefined economic value

and many humans invoked other species as spiritual guides or flat out worshipped them as gods

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Art and Race: The African (Up) Against the Enlightenment’s Eye Irises Jewelry Paul Getty Museum at theAvailable March 2027 Anne Lafont Translated by Anna Cummings, with Judith G. Miller This groundbreaking study investigates the close and paradoxical relationship of art and race during the Enlightenment. In this text, French art historian Anne Lafont examines the complexities and contradictions in Enlightenment era ideas about race, focusing on the figurations of Africans and other people of color. Through studies of a wide range of eighteenth century