Art, Sex and Videotape

As far as the Los Angeles art scene is concerned, last week was a
winner. Consider this: in celebration of its tenth anniversary, the
Getty Center held two special conferences. The first was focused on new
acquisitions made by Weston Naef, Curator of Photographs, Lee Hendrix,
Curator of Drawings, and Thomas Kren, Curator of Medieval Manuscripts.
All three curators are old pros who have been with the Getty for
decades and have virtually built these collections from the ground up.
Each drew from a treasure trove of entertaining, poignant stories about
their many triumphs and occasional defeats in the never-ending hunt for
rare, beautiful artwork...