Sarah Cooper is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Los Angeles.

She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs. 

She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.

In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.

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Sarah Cooper


Marjani Forté-Saunders
Milka Djordjevic, Victoria Fu/Matt Rich Image Frolics at Zebulon
Image Frolics article (The Kitchen)
Standing on the Corner Art Ensemble
MICROCOMPOSITIONS
Hand Habits
Bartees Strange
Zsela
Ever Present: Dissonant Days
Poussin and the Dance
Meaningless Work, Get to Work
Phoebe Berglund Dance Troupe
Moor Mother
Refuge: Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson
Brendan Fernandes: Free Fall for the Camera
Soup & Tart: Broadcast
Ben Kinmont for Active Cultures Digest
ITSOFOMO
Steve Reich’s Drumming
Bridge-s by Solange Knowles
Martin Creed
Ex Hex
Mother Earth's Plantasia
San Cha
Colin Self
Ben Babbitt
Mandy Kahn
Lala Lala
Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs A.S.T.R.A.L.O.R.A.C.L.E.S + Ana Roxanne
Jennifer Moon & laub
Jordi
Cate Le Bon
L'Rain
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith with Cool Maritime + Emily Sprague
Sasami
PIANO—GRAPHS
Lonnie Holley
Eyes of Laura Mars & Fashion Films
Combo Chimbita
Friday Flights 2014-2018
No Sesso + Kelsey Lu
Gun Outfit
Tyler Matthew Oyer
Ian Svenonius’ Escape-Ism
Lola Kirke
Dynasty Handbag
Geneva Jacuzzi
Vagabon
Corey Fogel
Elliot Reed
FEELS
No) One. Art House
Sarah Davachi
Devon Welsh (Majical Cloudz)
Tom Krell | Tram Music
Artists' Books Fest
Peaking Lights Family Band
Allah Las
Midori Takada
Maria Chavez
Helado Negro
See What You Mean: Harry Gamboa Jr.
Savoy Motel
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
Scott Benzel
Psychic Ills
Steve Gunn
Institute for New Feeling
Molly Surno with Brian Chase
Sun Araw
Reggie Watts
La Luz
Brendan Fernandes
White Fence
Sam Rowell
William Tyler + Noveller
Dungen: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
John Berger's Ways of Seeing: A Live Reading
KCHUNG News Residency
Simone Forti, News Animations
Leonard Cohen, A Celebration
Derek Jarman's Blue
Charles Atlas' The Legend of Leigh Bowery & Teach
Free Cinema
Demdike Stare
Veggie Cloud Film Series
wildUp
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David Horvitz & Xiu Xiu
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Laurel Jenkins' B A S E
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Burger Records
Kevin Morby
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Moses Sumney
Kianí del Valle
Juicerinas
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Getty Salad Garden
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THOUSAND ISLAND
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OOIOO
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Body/Head (Getty)
Daisies & Jennifer West
Mikael Jorgensen & Cassandra C. Jones
No Age
Ooga Booga
Liars
William Tyler & Harry Smith
Body/Head (MoMA)
Sofia Coppola & Phoenix
Abstract Currents
David Lamelas & Carlos D'Alessio
The Clock—Silent Disco
Exquisite Corpse & Au Revoir Simone
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Forth Estate & Real Estate
Paper Rad & Cory Arcangel


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Lonnie Holley
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Our sense of place has a big impact on our perspective of the world. Join artist and musician Lonnie Holley as he performs compositions inspired by his upbringing in the American South.



Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity since 1979. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1950 as the seventh of 27 children, his art and music came out of struggle, hardship, and, perhaps most importantly, furious curiosity and biological necessity. His art has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley's journey seeking healing in the transformative power of art has lead him to collaborate and tour worldwide with artists like Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Bill Callahan and Deerhunter, to name just a few, and his artwork has been exhibited widely from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the White House. 

A recent profile in The New Yorker described Holley's acclaimed 2018 album Mith as "strange and warm," with songs that could equally "refer to the nation right now, or to Holley's childhood in the pre-civil-rights-era South." Holley's unique musical improvisations and rambling stream-of-consciousness lyrical constructions are described as containing "hints of Stevie Wonder, Sun Ra, Lou Reed, Alice Coltrane, Gil Scott-Heron, Miles Davis." It is a "mélange...that that feels both new and borrowed," which Holley reinvents at each performance. "When Holley gets going, he conjures something in a room," taking the audience on a "collective trip." Click here to read more.

This program complements the current exhibition of photographs by Sally Mann. Both Mann and Holley use experimental techniques to reflect on family, the dark history of the American South, and contemporary politics. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings is on view in the Center for Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum through February 10, 2019.