With more than 25,000 works of art spanning 5,000 years of human creativity, the rising assortment includes one of the necessary museum holdings of recent and contemporary art within the United States. California’s J. Paul Getty Museum supplies a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and views of Los Angeles for its collection of art. It homes works dating from the eighth via the 21st century, together with European work, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, ornamental arts, and European, Asian, and American pictures. Its world-famous masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age include the Milkmaid by Vermeer and Rembrandt’s Night Watch. The …

Performance art may be scripted, unscripted, random, or rigorously organized—even audience participation might happen. John Cage is regarded by many as a performance artist quite than a composer, although he most well-liked the latter term. Cage’s composition Living Room Music, composed in 1940, is a quartet for unspecified instruments, actually non-melodic objects, that might be found in the lounge of a typical home, hence the title. Ernestine Schumann-Heink as WaltrauteThe composer Richard Wagner acknowledged the fusion of so many disciplines right into a single work of opera, exemplified by his cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”). …