Inside Art's Big Night at the Getty Center

On September 24, the J. Paul Getty Trust presented the annual J. Paul Getty Medal to The Studio Museum in Harlem director and chief curator Thelma Golden, philanthropist Agnes Gund, and artist Richard Serra at a dinner at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Guests including Ed Ruscha, Ricky Martin, Doug Aitken, and Frank Gehry were on hand for the festivities, which honor achievement in museology, art historical research, conservation science, and philanthropy.

Maria Hummer-Tuttle, chair of the Getty Board of Trustees, said, “All three of this year’s awardees have challenged the status quo. They have done this by showing how art gives shape to cultural change, by funding and implementing programs to bring the arts to the underserved, by changing traditional beliefs about art forms, and by focusing on artists as catalysts.”