Admission to the Getty Villa and to the exhibition is FREE; an advance, timed-entry ticket is required. For visitor information and tickets, see information on planning a visit or call (310) 440-7300.

Lecture

Picasso's Classic Realisms: Negotiating the Terms of a Relationship

Historian of modern art and exhibition co-curator Christopher Green examines Pablo Picasso's negotiation of several overlaid relationships: between Cubism and his so-called neoclassicism, between himself as artist and his subjects, and between "classic" Picasso and "realist" Picasso. Free; a ticket is required. This event is now sold out.

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Thursday, November 3, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Getty Villa, Auditorium

Symposium

Antiquity in the 20th Century: Modern Art and the Classical Vision

In this daylong symposium, scholars discuss the role that "modern classicism" has played in the understanding of both modernism and the classical past. Registration fee $20; $10 students; preregistration is required.

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Friday, November 4, 2011, 9:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Getty Villa, Auditorium

Performance

Special Presentation: Poetics & Plays
Conceived and performed by David Greenspan

Award-winning playwright and actor David Greenspan marries two of the most influential and antithetical treatises ever composed on the nature of theater—Aristotle's Poetics and Gertrude Stein's lecture Plays—in an unexpectedly enthralling evening of solo performance. Tickets $15; $12 students/seniors.

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Friday and Saturday, November 11 and 12, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
Getty Villa, Auditorium

Gallery Courses

A Ruined Past Revived: the Avant-garde and the Antique

This course examines how avant-garde artists found new meaning in ancient works of art and reinvented the Greco-Roman world. Investigate the connections between classical art and modernist creations, and then explore the galleries with educators, looking closely and participating in activities designed to foster informed opinion and active enjoyment.

Saturday, November 12, 2011, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Getty Villa, Meeting Rooms and Museum galleries

Ancient Art on the Modern Mind: 20th-Century Reinventions of Antiquity

Explore the re-appropriation of the Greco-Roman past by four eminent avant-garde artists. Learn the history of the exhibition from co-curator Jens Daehner, and curator John Tain of the Getty Research Institute. Then explore the galleries and discuss the modernist artists and the classical works that inspired them.

Saturday, December 3, 2011, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Getty Villa, Meeting Rooms and Museum galleries

Talks and Tours

Curator's Gallery Talks

Jens Daehner, associate curator of antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads an hour-long tour of the exhibition. Free with your advance, timed-entry ticket to the Getty Villa. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the tour at the Tour Meeting Place.

Thursdays, December 15, 2011, and January 12, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
Getty Villa, Museum galleries

Exhibition Spotlight Talks

Join an educator for a 20-minute, in-depth discussion featuring a single object or theme from the exhibition. Free with your advance, timed-entry ticket to the Getty Villa. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.

Wednesdays–Sundays, November 2–December 31, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Mondays, November 7–December 26, 11:00 a.m.
Getty Villa, Museum galleries

Exhibition Tours

Join a special one-hour tour of the exhibition. Free with your advance, timed-entry ticket to the Getty Villa. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.

Fridays and Saturdays, November 4, 2011–January 16, 2012, 3:00 p.m. Getty Villa, Museum galleries

GettyGuide™ Multimedia Player

Ancient and modern art scholars describe how four avant-garde artists revisited iconic images from antiquity. Pick up an iPod Touch for $5 on the first floor of the Museum or in the Entry Pavilion.